How the Packers Kill Hogs and Workers

I just found this article quoting John Curtis Kennedy just before he testified before the U.S. indsturial relations commision in 1915.  It doesn't take a literary critic to classify this as "sensational journalism".  It is definitely a more passionate report than others I have seen.  Read the full story here:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1915-04-15/ed-2/seq-1/

100th Wedding Anniversary Today!

Today is the 100th Anniversary of the marriage of Annabelle Van Horn to John Curtis Kennedy! They have been on my mind all day! I'm a hopeless nostalic romantic! Their transcribed marriage record is now in the searchable database on ancestry.com http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=John+Curtis&gsln=Kennedy&mswpn__ftp=Chicaco&msbdy=1884&uidh=tk6&pcat=34&h=577244&recoff=8+9+10&db=FSCookILMarriage&indiv=1.

Van Horn - Kennedy Marriage License

John Curtis Kennedy & Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy

Uncle John Kennedy and Aunt Bell and Richard and Leah Barnes taken at Kennedy home in Seattle after Stanley returned from World War II.

Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy Working Medicinal Herbs

Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy working with medicinal herbs at Seattle home.

Cora Davis Anderson

Cora Davis Anderson, daughter of Newton Davis & Margaret Jane Clement Davis and sister of Lottie Belle Davis.

She's the little-sister-toddler in this picture:

http://mygrandmasoldfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/2010/02/lottie-belle-davis-van-horn.html

Newton Davis & Margaret Jane Clement Davis in North Loup

Newton Davis and Margaret Jane Clement Davis (parents of Lottie Belle Davis)

Picture taken at North Loup, Nebraska home. "Grandfather died at North Loup [1901]. Grandmother lived for a number of years, living for some time at North Loup, then spent her last years at Riverside, California where she died [1930]."

Couple on right: Newton Davis and Margaret Jane Clement Davis (parents of Lottie Belle Davis Van Horn)

Van Horn Sisters 1920s

Left to right: Arminda Jane Van Horn Barnes, Leah Van Horn Barnes, Birdie Marie Van Horn Rood, Ana Byrle Van Horn Green.

Picture in front of Earl & Jane's house in Heber, UT.

Van Horn Sisters with Husbands Early 1950s

Jane & Roscoe Johnston, Leah & Richard Barnes, Bertha & Ross Davis, Anna & Elmer Green

Children of Edwin Burtell Van Horn & Lottie Belle Davis

Left to Right -

Standing: Merrill, Harry, Beecher, Ernest, Bill

Sitting: Ana, Jane, Leah, Birdie, Bertha

1910 Postcard from Aunt Belle

Annabelle Van Horn Milton Graduation

This is an unidentified photo in the Milton College archives. We think Annabelle Van Horn is middle on the back row.

Jane Davis found this photo at http://www.miltoncollege.org/nnpics.htm Album : Glass Slides & Negatives: Box 2 Photo 27

Annabelle Van Horn High School Graduation North Loup

Original cabinet card with Leah Van Horn Barnes handwriting on back: Annabelle Van Horn Kennedy High School Graduation North Loup, NE; daughter of Obadiah D. Van Horn and Arminda Harkness Van Horn.

Loyal Van Horn Obituary

Provided by Dora Nolan.

Home of Jay Van Horn in North Loup

This is the home of Jay and Stella Van Horn in North Loup, NE. They moved to Texas in 1920. The house burned down after they left. Photo and information provided by Dora Nolan.

Ross & Gladys Van Horn 1930

Ross and Gladys Van Horn (standing) about 1930. Orel Van Horn (right). Stella Rood Van Horn (sitting). Photo provided by Dora Nolan.

Loyal Van Horn & Rosa Nell Webb Van Horn

Loyal Van Horn and his wife Rosa Nell Webb Van Horn on Thanksgiving Day 1939. Photo provided by Dora Nolan.

Rua Van Horn "Womanpower Specialist"

Rua Van Horn of North Loup, NE is the new "womanpower specialist" at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Office of Education. Link to Tuscaloosa News July 4, 1962 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19620704&id=G2MeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GpoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7364,482657

"Aunt Rua was so special to us . . . Because Aunt Rua traveled so much with her work she would always bring us special gifts. I have a paper parasol from Japan still and I remember when she brought a grass skirt from Hawaii. I still have shoes from Pakistan too. She gave us both a trip to Washington D.C. when we graduated from 8th grade and showed us so much." -Judith Bonner

Links to some of Rua's publications:

1963 Newspaper Clipping http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=126053731

1951 http://openlibrary.org/books/OL248455M/Report

1939 http://books.google.com/books/about/The_nursery_school_in_family_life_educat.html?id=kR4ERAAACAAJ


1938 www.lib.muohio.edu/multifacet/record/mu3ugb3022316


1935 http://books.google.com/books/about/An_educational_program_for_household_emp.html?id=UOz0NAAACAAJ

Mrs. Ivan Van Horn (Gertrude Mabry McGehee)

BEAU GLADE from Florida's glade area, south end of Lake Okeechobee, is squiring Mrs. Ivan Van Horn, left, and Mrs. Irvin Zumpf, charman of Wednesday's national convetion luncheon. From tip to toe he is made of parsley hair, cabbage head, onion eyes, beet nose, pepper mouth, cabbage clothes, corn husk tie, egg plant feet, carrott fingers.

Miami News April 4, 1957 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19570404&id=UKEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=feoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6428,1440552

Thanks Jane for the link!

Orel Van Horn Champion of Oars

Provided by Judith Bonner.

Orel Van Horn Holding Alligator

"Orel Van Horn holding Alligator with his Kin and Neighbors, among the Coconut? Apples at Bean City Cove in 1917. Left to Right - Ivan L. Van Horn, George Grace, Orrin W. Manning, Orel Van Horn, G. A. Hulett, Everett and Ross Van Horn (brothers), and Mr. Grace." Photo provided by Judith Bonner.

Information provided by Jane Davis: Orel moved to the Florida Everglades in 1913 as one of the first farmers in that region after the government drained Lake Okeebochee. His son Ivan, was listed as being a "skipper" of a tug boat in Bell Glades, FL and later as the President of the Historical Society.

Jay Van Horn and Stella Rood Van Horn Family

Jay Van Horn and Stella Rood Van Horn with their children (left to right) Ross, Dale, Everett (front) circa 1906. Identification by Leah Van Horn Barnes when she gave the photo to my father (about 1980). Everett (George Everett) was born Nov/Dec 1903. He looks about three here. This photo may have been taken slightly earlier than this previously posted photo http://www.mygrandmasoldfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/2010/11/jay-van-horn-and-stella-rood-van-horn.html