Circa 1900 to 1920
Cass County, Michigan
The Andrus Collection
Page 4
120-George Andrus
| Edwardsburg Photos
Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 4 |
120-George Andrus |
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
 095-1P Girl on Porch |
 096-3brick Man with 2 Children |
 097-6p Belle Pickard House |
 098-10P Unidentified |
 100-Ballteam Edwardsburg HS Team |
 101-bballteam Edwardsburg HS Team |
 102-bballteam Edwardsburg HS Team |
 103-4pFish beside Argus Office |
 104-4p Unidentified |
 105-11p Kitchen & Andrus families |
 106-7p Unidentified |
 107-10P Unidentified- see below |
 108-4p Unidentified |
 109-7P-AND Andrus family -see below |
 110-5P William Wade - see below |
 112-15P Mostly Unidentified - see below |
 113-6P See Identies below |
 114-5P Unidentified at Pleasant Lake |
 115-35P Unidentified - Reunion? |
 116-5P Unidentified |
 117-32P Unidentified - Reunion? |
 118-MOMBUGGY Letta in buggy see below |
 119-DADGEOARGUS George & Charles in office |
120-George George in derby |
 121-girl Small girl in yard |
 122-4p Ladies in front of barn |
 123-LAKE Pleasant Lake |
 125-LAKE Pleasant Lake |
 126-4p-boat people in boat at lake |
 127-Lake Pleasant Lake |
 129-cottages Cottages at Pleasant Lake |
 130-cottages Cottages at Pleasant Lake |
Reference Number and description
095 Girl on porch.
096 Man with 2 children sitting on steps of brick house.
097 Belle Pickard house. See 074.
098 10 people.
099* 52 people outdoors. omitted from page
100 EHS baseball team, Charles Andrus center in row behind players.
101 EHS baseball team, Merle Claire, bat boy.
102 EHS baseball team.
103 4 men with large fish, at side of Argus Office.
104** 4 people.
105 Kitchen and Andrus families: front row, Charles Andrus, ---, ---, dog Ted. Middle row, ---, Mattie, Subrina, Minnie, Ida (Kitchen) Andrus, and Nelson
Kitchen. Rear row, ---, (James) Henry Andrus.
106 7 people.
107 10 older men in outdoor setting. James H. Andrus rear left.
108 4 people.
109* Andrus family and others. (James) Henry, Ida, Charles, James Hudson and unknown couple with girl.
110 5 young ladies inside the William Wade house, 26555 Main St.
111* as in 110. omitted from page
112 18 people at cottage on Pleasant Lake. Letta Andrus seated left, Charles Andrus 2nd from right.
113 6 people in snow. (James) Henry Andrus kneeling and Ida far right.
114 5 people in straw hats in front of cottage at Pleasant Lake.
115** 40 people.
116 3 adults and 2 children.
117 32 people
118 Letta (Beardsley) Andrus and sister, Marian Beardsley in buggy on Main Street in front of the Argus Office.
119 George and Charles Andrus in the Argus printing office in 1912. The skull
Is a remnant of Dr. Sweetland’s ownership of the Argus. The pole
Supports the weight of the newspaper press above on the second floor.
The flywheel behind Charles powers a letter press for job printing.
120 George Andrus in derby.
121 Small girl in yard.
122 5 women with snow and barn behind.
123 4 cottages on Pleasant Lake, some owned by James H. Andrus and rented to summer vacationers.
124 Pleasant Lake. omitted from page
125 Pleasant Lake, inscribed for postcard prints.
126 Pleasant Lake, 4 people in a boat..
127 Pleasant Lake, cottages, boats and dock.
128* Pleasant Lake, boat at dock. omitted from page
129 Cottages at Pleasant Lake.
130 Cottages 1 and 2 at Pleasant Lake.
* 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.