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Author Archives: Don Taylor
Donna Darling Headlines “Bathing Girl Revue” in Defiance, Ohio (June 10, 1925)
A June 10, 1925 newspaper advertisement places Donna Darling headlining the “Bathing Girl Revue” at the Valentine Theatre in Defiance, Ohio. The item confirms a new tour stop, identifies the revue by name, and reveals a full ensemble production featuring themed acts, elaborate costumes, and strong billing as the evening’s principal vaudeville attraction. Continue reading
Donna at Fox Washington Theatre, Detroit, MI – Week of June 6, 1926
In June 1926, vaudeville performer Donna Darling and her Metropolitan Five headlined the live bill at Detroit’s Fox Washington Theatre, appearing alongside the silent film The Shamrock Handicap. A penciled note in Donna’s own hand — “week June 6, Detroit” — anchors this appearance in her career chronology. Continue reading
Posted in Theatre History, Metropolitan Revue, Vaudeville
Tagged fox-washington-theatre, grady-trio, madonna-montran, bryson-and-tyson, detroit-michigan, ddc-part-36, metropolitan-five, donna-darling-collection, Vaudeville, janet-gaynor, murrays-american-beauties, fox-film-corp, arland-w-johnson, william-fox, grand-circus-park, 1926, leslie-fenton, Donna-Darling, the-shamrock-handicap, pearl-brothers, donna-montran, silent-film
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Ancestor Sketch – Johann Jakob Huber (1850–1926)
For eleven years, Johann Jakob Huber stood behind an impenetrable brick wall. A single page from the Bürger-Familienregister der Kirchgemeinde Stadel has shattered it. Now we know he was born 5 February 1850 in Pfündlauf, Zürich — a farmer, a father of seven, and the man who kept all but one child from leaving Switzerland. Continue reading
Faces from the Past – Meserve, Moulton, & Poland
Five cabinet card portraits from the SHS Photo Collection offer a glimpse into the lives of Scarborough families and their descendants in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Three Scarborough subjects — Charles Moulton, Hannah Libby Meserve Moulton, and (probably) Rosile Dolley Poland of West Scarborough — are joined by Portland physician Dr. Willis Bean Moulton, grandson of Charles and Hannah, and an unidentified young man from Lewiston whose identity remains a mystery. Continue reading
Posted in Photo Identification, Maine Genealogy, SHS Photo Collection
Tagged Alvin Poland, Willis Bean Moulton, Colpitts Lewiston, Hannah Meserve Moulton, Johns Hopkins, Charles Moulton, Photo Collection #11, Rosile Dolley Poland, Cabinet Cards, Conaut Portland, Don Taylor genealogy, West Scarborough, Broad Turn, Scarborough Town Farm, Unidentified Photographs, Webber Brunswick, Bowdoin College, Civil War Pension, Moulton Family
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Amanda Taft Whitney (1798–1872): An Ancestor Sketch
Born in Massachusetts in 1798 and carried west as an infant by her migrating family, Amanda Taft Whitney spent her life in Broome County, New York — raising ten children and outliving most of her generation. Her story is unusually well-documented. Read on to meet a woman the census records refused to forget. Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Sketch, Family Lines, New York Genealogy, Massachusetts Genealogy, Roberts-Barnes, Geographic Genealogy, Ancestor Features
Tagged 1855 New York State Census, Amanda Taft Whitney, New England Migration, Chauncey Whitney, 4th Grand-Aunt, Ancestor Sketch, Sarah Whitney Taft, Broome County NY, 1800 Census, Sharon Schoharie County New York, Taft Family, Triangle Broome County New York, Asa Taft, 1850 Census, Partridgefield Massachusetts, Hinsdale Massachusetts, 1865 New York State Census
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