[QUOTE=ethereal_reality;8068951]found this on ebay a couple days ago.
"Early Cabinet Photo - French Family Homestead, PASADENA California"
EBAY
What makes this cabinet card photograph so special is that everyone in the photo is named on the back.
we might need some help with all these people
oldstuff.
OK you asked for it. There is a lot since there are a lot of people:
FRENCH FAMILY BIO
FROM PHOTO - LISTED IN THE SAME ORDER AS IN THE PHOTO
The family appears in the 1900 Census in Pasadena, CA. The address of their home is listed as being 10 Hammond Street, Pasadena. This property appears to now have become Jackie Robinson Park, at the corner of Fair Oaks and Hammond in Pasadena. A 1903 directory for Pasadena lists the French property at the corner of Hammond and Mentone. This location is now a city electrical yard. They may have owned the entire area at that time. The directory from 1902 lists their property at the southeast corner of Mentone and Hammond. This is now just east of the 210 Freeway and is a city yard. The house may have been lost to the Freeway.
The picture would have been taken prior to 1903 since that is the date of Catherine Sherman French's death. Her husband Charles French is not in the picture so me make have taken it.
The family is found living in Wilson, Missouri in 1880. Soon after that, they moved to California. The last two children, of which we are aware, Daisy and Antone were born in California, in 1883 and 1889 respectively.
The picture shows
CATHERINE SHERMAN FRENCH
Wife of CHARLES M. FRENCH (not pictured)
Charles French was born in New York State in June of 1843. He is listed in the 1900 Census as being a blacksmith. He died in 1913 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena.
A voter registration for him from 1892 notes that he was 5’ 11” and that he had a medium complexion, blue eyes and brown hair.
MARY CATHERINE SHERMAN FRENCH was born in July of 1851 in Ohio, according to census records. Both her parents were from Germany. She married Charles French in 1869. She died in Pasadena on April 22, 1903.
ANNA FRENCH SNODDY was born on March 23, 1875 in Rea, Missouri. She married JOHN BEATTY SNODDY in Los Angeles on March 8, 1899. Marriage records for them indicate that she had lived in California since she was 12 and that her parents came to California in 1887.
John Beatty Snoddy, the husband of Anna French, was born in El Monte, Ca in November of 1874. He died in 1943.
Emory Sherman Snoddy, the son of Anna French and John Beatty Snoddy, was born in California on November 24, 1900. He died in Yucaipa, CA in 1967. He is buried in the Savannah Cemetery in Rosemead, CA.
CHARLES WESLEY FRENCH was born in May of 1887 in Missouri. He is listed as being a carriage painter in the 1900 Census. He died in Bishop, CA in February of 1943.
CATHERINE FRENCH (maiden name unknown) may have been born in November of 1893. She died at the age of 101 in 1994 in Oceanside, CA.
EMMA MAY FRENCH CROSBY was born in Missouri in May of 1869. She is listed as married when she appears in the 1900 Census, living with her parents. She is married to Lorain Crosby on December 13, 1890 and then widowed by 1910, where she appears in the census of that year, living with her son Walter at 368 Hammond, Pasadena. (This location is currently right in the median of the 210 freeway, and probably part of her parent’s property). While she appears in the 1900 census, her sons do not, although they were children at the time. Lorain is listed in the 1900 Census, living as a boarder and working as a butcher in Pasadena, but Emma and the children are not listed with him. Lorain died in 1903. Emma died in Los Angeles County in 1956.
ESTHER CROSBY, Daughter of Emma French and Lorain Crosby, she was born in California in 1896.
WESLEY CROSBY, the son of Emma French Crosby and Lorain Crosby, he was born in 1892 in California. He does appear in 1940, living with his mother on Bonsallo Avenue in Los Angeles and working as a battery repairman
WALTER CROSBY, The son of Emma French Crosby and Lorain Crosby. He was born in California in 1893
LULU B. FRENCH was born in Missouri in December of 1880. She is listed in the 1900 census as a leather carver. She married Phillip Hand in Pasadena in 1909. She died in June of 1915. Lulu and her husband lived at 719 Palisade in Pasadena. They appear in a directory at that address in the year she died. The house is no longer there.
DAISY MARGUERITE FRENCH was born in April of 1883 in California. She is listed in 1903 in a Pasadena directory as a bookkeeper. She married Irwin Slater in 1904 and they had two children. Daisy died in 1959. The house where she died at 539 E. Orange Grove in Pasadena was built in 1904, the year she was married.
ANTONE SHERMAN FRENCH was born in California in May of 1889. He also went by Anthony French. He married Lucy_____ , prior to June of 1917 when he filled out his draft card. When he registered for the draft in WW I he is listed as being a blacksmith, like his father. He was living at 358 Hammond Street in Pasadena. At that time he listed his employer as the Pasadena Rock and Gravel company. He died in Los Angeles County in 1960.