Adair County

The first three photos show the aftermath of a large ice storm that hit Kirkville, Missouri on January 23, 1897.

 Robert & Ella (Shoop) Lorenz had this new home built during the summer and fall of 1896. The couple along with their children, and possibly a son-in-law, are standing among the ice-damaged trees on their front lawn after the January 23, 1897 ice storm.

   

The tremendous ice storm that hit Kirksville Saturday evening,
January 23, 1897, presented residents with, according to local papers,
“the severest touch of winter that has been felt for many years.”

 

Tree damage in the ice storm of January 23, 1897

  

 Richard Ringo, seated in the rocker on his front lawn, was cashier, then president, of Kirksville Savings Bank. The young ladies at the porch railing are their daughters, Eugenia & Althea.

  

 This home, known as the B.F. Heiny House, was rental property
until after the turn of the century. Joseph S. Conner and his family
were tenants in 1900 and the Heinys moved in sometime later.

 

Unidentified house

 

Source: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

Adair County

Adair County is in Missouri. These photos of houses and their occupants date to the late 1890s.

 George C. Farmer, Sr., and his son George C., Jr., were partners in the C.G. Farmer & Son Hardware Store on the Kirksville Square in the late 1890s and owned this home on Harrison St.

  

 House of real estate agent Thomas J. Dockery. He and Mrs. Dockery (Julia Linder) are shown here on the front porch of their home; daughters Ethel Ardella, Leota Lillian & Julia Estelle are on the steps and lawn.

  

 James Martin, M.D., came to Kirksville in 1884 and was in medical practice here for many years. Photo shows James and his wife Adalaide Halladay, their three children, Ruth, Howard, & Walter, his sister Belle, and probably some of their tenants.

  

 Newt Winn, 1897 graduate of Kirksville Mercantile College and newly hired bookkeeper for the John Storm Axe Handle Company, is pictured with his sisters Minnie & Lucy on the front porch of their family home.

  

One of the largest of our unidentified homes, this building appears to have been a rooming house. Male roomers are grouped at one end of the porch; the females with the owner’s family further down.

 

Source: Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library