Name/Title
Portrait, A Generation of the Wilcox family, #40Description
This photo is of the Wilcox family generation through the years from 1908.
There are names all around of the front of this photo and some are not recognizable for the right spelling.
You will notice that the names have numbers in front of them and they go along with the numbers that are printed on the front of the people in this photo. The names on the front of some of them tell from where they are from. There are 55 people in this photo.
1.E.D. Bangs, Milw. 2.Nelson Wilcox, 3.Mrs. ? Preston, 5. Mrs. Geo. Wilcox, 6. (not sure of the first name) Carrington, 7. Orville O. McElroy, Minneapolis, 8. Carl Jennings, 9. D.L. Bancroft, 10. L. Bruce, Hutchinson, Minn. 11. Henry Reynolds, Waseca, Minn. 12. John Shanahon, 13. Jocob Bausch, 14. R.S. Sarguent, 15. Edwin Hillyer, 16. John Wingender, Mil. 17. Warren Wilkes, 18. J. T. Hillyer, 19. G.L. Amedon, 20. W.E. Scott,
Second row from R to L:21. A Sofer, Ripon, 22. Mrs. Anna Johnson, Kloss. Mich., 23. Mrs. W.E.Scott, 24. W. S. Cotes, Chicago, 25. Mrs. Ora Heath, 26. Mrs. Warren Wilkes,
27. Mrs. C.S. Kneeland, Masson, Minn., 28. Ellen Kneeland, Garrison, Kasson, Minn., 29. Mrs. Angie Wilcox, 30. Mrs. J.W. Wilcox (Clara), 31. Mrs. Marian Caxvand Edison, Kasson, Minn., 32. Mrs. G. W. Cooper, Medina, Wis., 33. William Lindsay, Milwaukee., 34. Mrs. William LIndsay, Milwaukee, 35. Thruston W. Wilcox, 36. Mrs. Martha Odell, Preston, Minneapolis, 37. Mrs. C.M. Howland.
Third row from L to R: 38. C.M. Howland, 39. J. W. Wells, Downs, Kan., 40. W. H. Wells,
41. G. W. cooper, Medina, Wis., 42. A. E. Austin, Brandon, Wis. Oct. 1854, 43. W.W. Houghton, Seattle, Wash., 44. Geo. W. Bly, Grafton, Neb., 45. J.M. Cole, 46. DeMonte Whiting, Buffalo, N.Y., 47. Dr. Oliver Swain, Chicago, 48.Geo. Fuller, Henry, S. D., 49. Sam W. Cross, 50. S. D. Wood, Faulkton, S. D., 51. C. E. Hooker, 52. Ed Clarance Benton Dell, Rapids, S. D., 53. A. J. Allen, St. Paul, 54. E. J. Lindsay, Mil., 55. George Wilcox.
On the back of the photo says that this photo was given to Inez C. Wilcox from Lena Luck, (1908).
It also explains that these Wilcoxes are all children of Seymour and Lucy Newton Wilcox and brothers and sisters of our Grand-father Nelson Newton Wilcox.
Also on the back it states the No. 1 in white marking and No. 2 in ink markings explains: is our Grandfather-Nelson Newton Wilcox the sixth child of Seymour and Lucy Newton Wilcox, the founders of Waupun, Wis. Nelson Newton Wilcox was born Feb.22, 1839 at DePere, WI, Brown County. The Wilcox family came to Waupun when he was about a month old.
They came March 20, 1839.
No. 31 in white markings and No. 55 in ink markings is Nelson's brother Geo. S. Wilcox, the 4th son of Seymour and Lucy Newton Wilcox. Geo. S. Wilcox was born in Canada. His wife is Delia Carrington, daughter of Eli and Mary Carrington marked with ink No. 5 (brother of Nelson, the above Geo.)
No. 35 marked in ink is Thurston Wilcox, the oldest son of (oldest child) Seymour and Lucy Newton Wilcox and brother of Nelson.
No. 30 marked in ink is wife of Thurston Wilcox, (Clara Beardsley).
No. 29 marked in ink is Augeline Wilcox wife of Ira Jason Wilcox. Ira J. was the 1st white male child born in Waupun, the 7th son of Seymour and Lucy (Newton) Wilcox.
No. 43 is William Waldo Houghton, the husband of Emily Janet Wilcox, she was the 5th child of Seymour and Lucy (Newton) Wilcox.
No. 13 is our Great Grand-father-Jacob Bausch. He was born in Germany in 1826. He is the father of our Grandmother Anne Alice (Bausch) Wilcox. Anne Alice (Bausch) Wilcox was born on April 22, 1859 in Waupun, Wis. She married Nelson Newton Wilcox on Oct. 2, 1879 in Waupun, Wis. Jacob Bausch died 1913 in Waupun, Wis.Acquisition
Accession
2007.0003Source or Donor
Collection of photos found in an unidentified box in the museum work room.Acquisition Method
Found in Collection
