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Tom Schweich |
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When I first read the field notes of Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg, I was fascinated by the descriptions they wrote about the places they went and the plants and animals they found there. By publishing my field notes on the Internet I hope to follow a little bit in their tradition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1920s
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"William Lucien Shaw, Grandfather of Paul A. Schweich, about 1920, 1851? - 1925
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Mrs Rachel Lucretia Soaper-Keener | Married at the age of 16 -- 1852 English and Irish parentage. Grandmother Keener
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Uncle Lester and Aunt Mary's children. | Where did Uncle Lester and Aunt Mary live?
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Aunt Annie's Cats. | Some of these cats had six toes.
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Inscribed: "Our meeting in the park. Two thousand people of Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish origin meet regularly in this park."
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A church picnic near Fort Worth, Texas.
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August 26, 1920: Birth of Lydia Pawluk
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| 1921
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Uncle Charley, 80 | Uncle Lyme, 79 Paul Schweich 3 1/2 Martinsburg NY Sunday, June 19, 1921
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Ferguson family visit, Charlie Ferguson kneeling with Paul.
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Paul Schweich with Grandmother Shaw. Kansas City, Missouri (?), 1921.
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Irma and Paul Schweich in northern New York, 1921.
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Martinsburg, NY (probably at the time of the visit to the Fergusons) 1921
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Charlie Ferguson gives Paul Schweich a wheelbarrow ride. Charlie was the son of Agnes Ferguson, and had given the sailor hat to Paul.
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Inscribed: | "1921 Paul Schweich Jr Taken in Lowville New York by Mandeville Property of Mrs Paul Schweich140 S Roxbury Dr Beverly Hills Calif."
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Five children in the yard. Back row: unknown, Olga; front row: unknown, Lydia, Alec.
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Photograph has type-written inscription on back:
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"Son 3 years old"
Since Alec was born in November 1917, and was age 3 when this photograph was taken, I assume that the photograph was taken in 1921.
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A picnic in Fort Worth. The circled children are Olga and Alec. From their ages, I estimate this photograph was taken in 1922.
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| 1923
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Lydia on horse.
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An outing to Brush Creek. 1923. | Back Row: Irma Schweich (mother), unidentified Front Row: Paul Robert Schweich (father), Paul Schweich (son), unidentified
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Inscribed: | "1923 Paul A. with cat and rabbit 54th and Forrest, K. C."
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Inscribed: | "1923 Paul A. and friends 54th & Forrest 1923 Buick Touring Car"
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| 1924
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On back step with Grandmother Shaw | Front Row: Unidentified, Aida, Betty Shaw, Paul A. Back Row: Grandmother Shaw, Ruth Shaw.
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Photograph taken 1924 (?) in upstate New York (?)
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Spring 1924 | Paul A. with Aida on back steps 54th & Forrest, K. C. Aida was foster mother when Irma was ill for several years.
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1925 | Friends of Paul R. and Irma 74th and Forrest Irma's Flower Garden
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1925 | Paul R. Ruby Shaw (Aunt) Paul A. Grandmother Hortense Arvilla Peebles Shaw
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Mr. Pettrichko and Family.
| Inscribed on back: "To my dear brother in Jesus, Peter P. Pawluk, from Stefan Jacob Pettrichko, September 28, 1925."
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Graduates of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Class of 1925. Peter Paul Pawluk is in the back row, fifth from left. See inset.
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In 1920, a Philadelphia Baptist seminary closed causing twenty-three of its Russian students to enroll in the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on the south side of Fort Worth. Learning that several of their fellow countrymen lived on the North Side, the students wanted to convert them.
| The seminarians established a church in 1920 with funds provided by the state mission board, calling it the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church for Slavic People. A plain white frame structure, the building had frosted windows, oak pews, ceiling fans, a pulpit, and a baptistry. At a service on New Year's Eve, six Russian immigrants who worked in the packing plants and lived on the North Side were baptized. The young men had arrived on the North Side seven or eight years earlier, most coming without their families, with plans to work a few years and then go back with American dollars which could be traded for twice as many rubles. World War I and the Russian revolution interrupted their plans. The parishioners became an informal community assistance group that helped others in their transition to American life. The church was the spiritual center of the Polish community, but it also provided a trilingual school of sorts, a social gathering place, and a welcome center for new immigrants. It actually did more to Americanize and indoctrinate the newcomers into Protestantism than to help them keep their old world values and traditions. Sylvester Lozuk was one of the six young men who was baptized that first New Year's Eve in 1920. Lozuk had arrived in Fort Worth in 1913 to start a new life in America. Five years after his baptism, Lozuk replaced the first pastor, Peter Pawluk, and continued to serve the congregation for over a quarter of a century. He delivered sermons in three languages — Russian, Polish, and English — and the congregation sang hymns in Russian, Polish, and Czech from translations of the Baptist Hymnal. The Clinton Avenue Church remained the only Slavic Baptist Church In the entire Southern Baptist Convention for several decades. A dozen years after its establishment, the church listed a membership of sixty, but Sunday services sometimes counted 150 in attendance, including non-members and children not yet baptized. Before World War II, men sat on the right side of the aisle and women on the left according to the Eastern Orthodox custom. When Harry Polinsky, a veteran of World War II, returned home, he found that the custom of separating the sexes by a center aisle had ended. In 1954, the Tarrant Baptist Association honored Lozuk for twenty-eight years of service. After he died in 1957, by members continued the preaching in three languages. By 1961, however, most of the second and third-generation congregation had moved, or had married English-speaking partners and were attending services elsewhere. The church closed its doors and the remaining members transferred to the Rosen Heights Baptist Church.
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With a caption of "Church in Fort Worth" and "Dad and Mr. Lozuk," I think this must be the interior of the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church.
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Slavic Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas
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Mr. Lozuk and Dad
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"Dad's study in Texas."
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Mrs. R. M. Barrett
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1926 | Grandmother Shaw's Chicken House Built by Paul R., Henry Chick, Robt. Shaw (Brothers-In-Law)
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Inside the entry of house on Forest near 74th.
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1926 | Irma Schweich & Jersey cow "Baby" 74th & Forrest, K.C. (Good pet -- Little Milk)
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Family in Fort Worth. I this this is the same family as the next photo.
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"Corsky" -- there are other photos of Corsky.
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"Church Children"
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Portrait of unknown woman.
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Johnnie, Corsky, Mike.
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