Name/Title
Tootle Costume Party at Cloverly Farms, Photos (6), 1901Entry/Object ID
P2009.20.8Description
Tootle Costume Party at Cloverly Farms, Photos (6), 1901. b/w Cloverly farms, situated on 10 acres. Mansion-style home designed by E.J. Eckel, Architect. Constructed 1899. Photos taken in the Reception Hall at Cloverly Place, J.J. Tootle's country home at 36th & Frederick. Similar photos but each with varying groups of persons. Costumes were considered "back country style" reminiscent of dress of common people of 1880's, almost clownish Men in ill-fitting suits, hats of various description, some in work attire, Women in full-length dresses and smallish hats. See Multimedia attachment of newspaper article about the party, St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, Dec. 29, 1901, by clicking on the Multimedia button above.
The Tootle residence & property was sold to the Catholic Church c. 1923 and operated as an orphanage until 1959. In the 1960s, the home was demolished and Bishop LeBlond High School was built on the site.
John James Tootle was the third child of Milton Tootle I and Katherine O'Neill. His brother, Milton Tootle, Jr., was important in St. Joseph banking. John was mainly involved in Tootle Dry Goods, which was begun by his father in 1849. He was President of the Tootle Estate, retiring from all business in 1949. (He was also known as Jack Tootle.
John Tootle was married to Ella Parker, with whom he had one daughter, Katherine. Katherine had one son, Jack, by her first husband, who died when Jack was very small. She remarried to Stanley Birdsall and they moved to St. Joseph. Jack officially took the surname Tootle.
In 1906 John Tootle & Ella divorced and Cloverly Farms was awarded to Ella.
Jack Tootle, the grandson, was Vice President of Tootle Dry Goods for 23 years. He died in Florida at age 91, in 2009.
Photos include:
09.20.8 = Group of 15 men in costume posed under the mounted moose head, with five of the men seated on the floor in front of those standing. Identified on back as: Back row: Hugh Rowland, John Tootle, Sam McCord, Milton Tootle, Harry Parker, Eugene McAllister, George Hosea, Will Parker, Beattie Weakley. Front row: W.E. Stringfellow, R.A. Brown, C.R. Berry, John Meadows, Sherrard Brittain.
09.20.9 & 12 = Group of men & women in costume, taken in reception hall, many of the women seated on floor or chairs in center, Others standing. Identified by list pasted on back written on letterhead of Laurence O. Weakley. as
--Upper: Standing--Noel Brittain Hastings, Sam McCord, George Hosea, Milton Tootle, Jess Norman Miller, Sue Brittain Motter, Gladys Tootle, Hazel Tootle, R.A. Brown, Jack Tootle, Beattie Weakley, Will Stringfellow.
--Lower: John Meadows, Kate Rowland, Minnie Farish, Minnie McCord, Ella Tootle, Nettie Weakley, Gen McAllister, Harry Parker, Lillian Tootle, Sue Weakley, Sherrard Brittain.
2 copies.
09.20.10 & 11 = Group of four men and three women in costume, taken in reception hall, standing in front of wall with moose head mount. Each person holding an object in hand, perhaps their prize. Handwritten at bottom of photo: "Prize Winners; C.R. Berry, Ella Tootle, Harry Parker, Jess Norman, Milton Tootle, Noel Brittain, ?. 2 copies.
09.20.13 = Group photo of entire group of 26 at party. Similar to 09.20.9 but more of the attendees in photo. Women and a few men seated on floor. Men and three women standing behind. Taken under the large chandelier in reception hall, Stairway to 2nd floor visible at photo right back.Made/Created
Date made
1901Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
ResidencesSearch Terms
Tootle Family, Cloverly Farm, Frederick AvenueDimensions
Height
8 inWidth
10 inDimension Notes
on cardboard mat, 10" x 12"Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
C.R. BerryPerson or Organization
Sherrard BrittainPerson or Organization
R A. BrownPerson or Organization
Minnie FarishPerson or Organization
Noel Brittain HastingsPerson or Organization
George HoseaPerson or Organization
Eugene McAllisterPerson or Organization
Sam McCordPerson or Organization
Minnie McCordPerson or Organization
John MeadowsPerson or Organization
Jess Norman MillerPerson or Organization
Sue Brittain MotterPerson or Organization
Harry ParkerPerson or Organization
Lucy McCord ParkerPerson or Organization
Will ParkerPerson or Organization
Hugh RowlandPerson or Organization
Kate RowlandPerson or Organization
Will E. StringfellowPerson or Organization
Ella TootlePerson or Organization
Gladys TootlePerson or Organization
Hazel TootlePerson or Organization
Tootle, JackPerson or Organization
Lillian TootlePerson or Organization
Milton TootlePerson or Organization
Tootle. John J.Person or Organization
Beattie WeakleyPerson or Organization
Weakley, NettiePerson or Organization
Weakley, SueProvenance
Notes
Photos donated by member of Jack Tootle Family. Jack a grandson of John J. Tootle, who built Cloverly Farms in 1899, the subject of these photos.
