August 4, 1917
McKinley Austin, Chattanooga, to Aida Austin, Eldred Dear Aunt, I am here and like it better than at Fort Slocum. We get better food and the officers seem better, though we had a fine sergeant there. It took over 34 … Continue reading
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Slocum, Logan, & Riley, July 1917
McKinley Austin to His Family July 7, 1917: I have arrived safely. I have been accepted and am at Ft. Slocum. Your son, McKinley Irwin Briggs, Ft. Logan On July 7, 1917, Irwin Briggs enlisted in the army at Ft. … Continue reading
April 1917
My Tuesdays are meatless My Wednesdays are wheatless I am getting more eatless each day. My house is heatless My bed is sheetless They’ve all been sent to the Y.M.C.A.. The bar rooms are treatless My coffee is sweetless, Each … Continue reading
March 1882
Mary Ann Writes to Lon Austin in Kansas, 1881. The Austin brothers Ell, Lon, and Mort, worked a few years in Kansas. Lon seems to have gone to California. In this letter, William Sutherland, a friend from Solomon City, Kansas, … Continue reading
1917, before WWI
McKinley Attends Mount Hermon In the fall of 1916 Mort and Jennie Austin said good bye to their oldest son McKinley, as he left to attend Mount Hermon School for Boys in Massachusetts. Mount Hermon Mount Hermon was founded … Continue reading
1902 Methodist Church
The Methodist Church in Barryville was built in 1902. The parsonage at the Barryville Church was owned by both the Eldred and Barryville Methodist churches.—Echo Hill and Mountain Grove, p. 212. This brochure in the Austin Collection shows the church … Continue reading
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1902 Barryville
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Remembering Town of Highland’s WWI Soldiers
My Uncle McKinley Austin, the oldest son of Mort and Jennie Leavenworth Austin, died in France in October 1918. His body was brought back to the US at a later time. McKinley in France Ruth Colville, Barryville, writes McKinley McKinley’s … Continue reading
Dear Soldier Boy, 1918
I would like to revisit the young ladies (who read a Lone Scout magazine ad) and wrote letters/postcards to Mortimer McKinley Austin who had enlisted in the army. The letters were mostly written in February of 1918. There seems to … Continue reading
1907 Mott Street, New York City
This is the color postcard of Mott Street where C.S. Bok, a friend of my grandfather Mort Austin lived. Grandfather Austin met C.S. Bok at Centenary Collegiate Institute (Hackettstown, NJ) in 1891. 1896 1327 Fifth Ave., New York, Sept. 5, … Continue reading
