Circa 1900 to 1920
Cass County, Michigan
The Andrus Collection
Page 2
037houseicetree
Dr. Hughs
| Edwardsburg Photos
Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 2 |
037houseicetree Dr. Hughs |
Photos property of Dean Andrus and @ copyrighted with special permission given to the Cass County Genweb to use them on site.
To find out about purchasing a CD, which has approximately 339 photos, not all of the photos are here on site, contact Mr. Dean Andrus at - hazard139@aol.comDean Andrus, son of Charles Andrus who, with his Uncle George Andrus and Grandfather, Henry Andrus owned and operated the Edwardsburg Argus for many years. Dean grew up in Edwardsburg and as kid found a box of 350 glass plate negatives of photos taken of the Edwardsburg area from 1900 to 1920 or so by George. The story of my finding them and finally scanning them and producing a CD of the images is attached in the introduction that Dean wrote to go along with the CD which he donated to the Edwardsburg Library, the Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum and to this web site (most recently) Dean had recently been in touch with a cousin, Ben Kinsey, who had submitted a number of items for our inclusion on this GenWeb site and this has led Dean to consider submitting the photos for use on the site to make them more widely available to the public and hopefully get some help in identifying some of the people and places depicted.
This collage includes photos of churches, streets, houses, barns, schools, businesses, cottages, lake, auto livery, horse and buggy, funeral home, hearse, etc. and a lot of people. Those of Dean's family have been identified along with a few of the others and the Museum has identified a few more. They take walks around town yearly to try and identify other homes in the photos.
Can you help identify anyone or place in the collage of photos below? Some have been identified and others are a mystery.
For Larger photos image click on the photo. Then hit your return to to come back to this page.
See below photos for additional information
 031house House with 2 porches |
 032house William Harris farm |
 033house_Gunn Dr. Sweetland house |
 034house-Gunn Dr. Sweetland house |
 035house-Gunn Dr. Sweetland house |
 036house Dr. Hughs place |
037houseicetree Dr. Hughs |
 038house Winslow house |
 039house House |
 040house Belle Flint's house |
 041cottage Cottage |
 042house Dr. Sweetland/Rinehart |
 043houses3 Three houses |
 044houseFBement Bement house |
 045house House - unidentified |
 046house Cottage |
 047cottages 3 Cottages |
 048houseGPA Andrus house |
 049Hearse-Carlisle Carlisle Hearse |
 050house-Gunn house and auto |
 051houseMayhew Mayhew |
 052houseBement Bement house |
 053house Tonkin house |
 054barnsilo barn with silo |
 055Barn Runkle Farm |
 056barn Barn |
 059barn-sunnyside Sunnyside |
 060barn-Hess Hess Barn |
Reference Number and description
031house - House with 2 porches - unidentified
032House- William Harris farm house. 27564 US 12 recently owned by Judy Wilkinson Padbury
033houseGunn - Dr. Sweetland House
034houseGunn - Dr. Sweetland House
035HouseGunn- Dr. Sweetland House
036house - Dr. Hughs house and office, Maple St. south of Methodist parsonage, later Bertha Hick home
037houseicetree - Dr. Hughs house in snow and ice storm
038**house - Winslow house, Letta Andrus sitting in yard
039house - House with windmill and auto - unidentified
040house - Belle Flint's house, at Main and East streets
041cottage - Cottage with couple and 2 children - unidentified - Perhaps J. H. Andrus' dog in corner
042house - Dr. Sweetland house in 1872, 26903 Main St. across from Argus office. Later the Rinehart house.
043houses3 - Southwest corner of Main and Lake Streets., Dr. Tonkin house in center
044houseBement - Bement house with Frank and Mrs. and Benjamin and Beulah.
045house - Undentified house
046house -Cottage with 6 people at Pleasant Lake - unidentified
047cottages - 3 cottages at Pleasant Lake
048houseGPA - James Hudson Andrus house, 129 Cass St., built in 1885. In front are Son, (James) Henry and wife Ida Andrus who lived there until their deaths.
049hearse - R. S. Carlisle house, 26850 Barber St., with the first hearse in Edwardsburg. Later was the Bacon and Silver home.
050house-Gunn - Dr. Sweetland house with 11 people and auto - unidentified
051house-Mayhew - Percy Head house 1910, rebuilt and roof raised by Dr. E. W. Tonkin in 1912, now Mayhew Funeral home.
052houseBement - Frank Bement house with 4 people - unidentified
053house - Dr. E. W. Tonkin house with school behind
054barnsilo - Barn with silo
055barn - Barn, William Runkle farm, later owned by Ed Gall, on Conrad Rd. N of US12
056barn - Unidentied barn
059**barnSunnyside - Barn, Sunnyside, Ed Gall, on Conrad Rd. Est. 1907
060barnHess - White Oak farm barn - J. Hess est. 1860.* Indicates newly scanned negatives, shown as “not printed” on the Flip Album
CD due to under- or over-exposure.
** Indicates rescans of negatives of poor quality on the Flip Album CD.
These photos are included on a separate CD, not in the Flip Album format. They are in the .jpg format and may be viewed by any computer image viewer.
To find out about purchasing a CD, which has approximately 339 photos, contact Mr. Dean Andrus at - hazard139@aol.com