Alfred Duryee Guion’s Photo Album – 1884 – 1964

 

Mary Ellum Wilson’s photo Album has inspired me to create a Photo Album for Grandpa, Grandma,  and their six children and their spouses. I will be posting them for the next seven weekends. I will also endeavor to get more pictures from family members of those individuals with only a few pictures.

This picture of Alfred Duryee Guion was taken about 1885, when he was about a year old.

This is a picture of Alfred Duryee Guion and his sister, Elsie May Guion, taken about 1895, when he was about ten or eleven. It was taken at the Lincoln Avenue house in Mount Vernon, New York, built by their Father, Alfred Beck Guion a few years before he passed away.

This picture of Grandpa was taken using a mirror, creating a very early Selfie, taken with his Brownie Camera, probably a recent Birthday present. He appears to be wearing a suit with long pants so I would guess his age to be about twelve.

In this picture, he was probably an older teenager.

This picture was taken of Alfred Duryee Guion and his Bride, Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion on their honeymoon in 1913 at a beach in Bermuda.

This picture, taken about 1928, shows Grandpa in the upper left, with his children, his Sister-in-law, Dorothy Peabody (middle row, far right) and a nephew and niece (front row, far left and far right).

This is how I remember Grandpa while I was growing up in Trumbull.

Tomorrow, Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion’s Photo Album.

Judy Guion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Picture – Ella (Duryee) Guion And Elsie May Guion – Date Unknown

My 3rd cousin, Barbara, found this picture of my Grandmother, Ella (Duryee) Guion and her daughter, Elsie May Guion. There is no date but it appears as though they are travelling, perhaps by ship, to some unknown place.

Elsie May Guion and Ella (Duryee) Guion (Mrs. Alfred Beck Guion)

Tomorrow, I will begin posting letters written in 1940 when Lad is in Venezuela and Dan and Ced have been in Alaska for a couple of months.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – Grandpa’s Childhood – 1900 – 1910

Here are some of the pictures taken by Alfred Duryee Guion  (Grandpa) during his young adulthood..

This is a picture of the Dell Avenue house he moved to with his sister, mother and Aunts, after the death of his father, Alfred Beck Guion, in 1899. I visited the house in 2004 and took pictures then.

Front view of the Dell Avenue house.

He trained his dog, Spot, to perform numerous tricks.

front: Ella Duryee Guion, Elsie Guion; back: Alfred Duryee Guion, Aunt Mary or Aunt Lillian) and Aunt Elsie.

 

Grandpa’s sister, Elsie May Guion, with Spot.

Alfred Duryee Guion as a young man.

Alfred Duryee Guion, dressed for work at sixteen or seventeen.

Elsie May Guion and her bike.

Tomorrow, I will post letters written in 1944. All five of Grandpa’s sons are in the service of Uncle Sam.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – Grandfather And Grandmother Irwin – Re-Post

I have just come across an envelope with pictures of my Mom’s parents and Grandfather. I am reposting this with the added pictures. I hope you enjoy them.

Mowry Addison Irwin is the only child  of Addison Mowry Irwin, who wrote the note to Carrie Snaman.

Mowry Addison Irwin, c. 1914

Marian Edith Irwin, Wedding Picture, c. 1914

 My Grandmother came to visit us in Trumbull shortly after my brother and I were born in 1946, and that was the only time she came. My Grandfather passed away before I was a year old. 

Marian Edith (Rider) Irwin and Mowry Addison Irwin, November 14, 1943

Mowry Addison Irwin and Marian Edith (Rider) Irwin, Marian Dunlap (Irwin) Guion and Alfred Peabody Guion November 14, 1943, my Dad and Mom’s wedding day, in her parent’s backyard in Orinda, CA

Marian Dunlap Irwin, c. 1915

Marian Dunlap Irwin and Homer Addison Irwin, c. 1918

The following is taken from a letter I received from my Mom’s sister, Margaret Edith (Irwin) Mitchell Sedberry, She told me it was from a death notice in a California newspaper dated May 10, 1947.

Mowry Addison Irwin was a prominent Civic  leader of Orinda, California. A resident of Berkeley for 10 years. Mr. Irwin and his family moved to Orinda seven years ago. He was President last year and a Director this year of the Orinda Association and was instrumental in helping to start the Orinda News, a community newspaper. He was employed by the Westinghouse Wholesale Sales Co.

Tomorrow I will begin a week of letters written in 1940. Lad is still in Venezuela and Dan and Ced have been in Anchorage, Alaska, for about a month.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – Great-Grandfather And Great-Grandmother Irwin

This is a picture of Marian Dunlap (Irwin) Guion’s (my mother’s) Grandmother, Ellen Jane (Carrie) Dunlap Snaman. I have also included a note from Addison Mowry Irwin to Miss Snaman, asking for her company to a social event. He also asks her if he could see her some evening.  She must have agreed because they were married.

Ellen Jane (Carrie) Dunlap Snaman

City, Nov. 3, 1886

Miss Snaman:-

     Please excuse the liberty of my request; but would you oblige me by giving me your company for the next German. If not unpleasant I should also like very much to call if you will allow me, and inform me of an evening. Trusting you have recovered from the fatigue of Monday evening, and that I will hear favorably from you.

I remain,

Respectfully, 

A. M. Irwin

Room # 56

Lewis Block

City (Kansas City, Mo.

Tomorrow, I will begin posting a week of letters written in 1940. Lad remains in Venezuela and Dan and Ced are in Alaska.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Peabody

Continuing with pictures of my ancestors, these two are the parents of Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion, who married Alfred Peabody Guion, my Grandpa.

 

Kemper Peabody, Grandma Arla’s Father

Anna Charlotta (Westlin) Peabody, Grandma Arla’s Mother

 

Arla Mary Peabody and her father, Kemper Peabody, in 1911, just 2 years before she married Alfred Duryee Guion (Grandpa)

Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion and Alfred Duryee Guion, on their honeymoon in Bermuda in 1913

Tomorrow, more Special Pictures.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – My Father, My Mother, My Twin Brother And Me – 1946

Marian Irwin and Alfred Peabody Guion when the met in 1943. Lad was stationed at Santa Anita Army Ordnance Base, California.

Alfred Peabody Guion and Marian (Irwin) Guion on their wedding day, November 14, 1943

The birth announcement of their first children.

Douglas Alfred Guion and Judith Anne Guion, probably at about 5 months old.

Our First birthday party. Mom, Marian (Irwin) Guion, is on the far left. Doug and I really do not look very excited, do we? Notice the infant seats we are sitting in. They were much more like Indian Cradle Boards. 

Tomorrow, we move to 1943 and the actual beginning of this story. Lad has recently arrived at Santa Anita Ordnance Base in Santa Anita, California. His buddies, who left Aberdeen Proving Grounds at the same time Lad went to Flint, Michigan, for further training at the Wolverine Diesel Plant, had been there for a few weeks and had already met Marian. They kept telling her, “You really need to meet Al”. or “I can’t wait until you meet Al.” She knew all about Al (Lad to family and friends back home).

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – My Grandfather, Grandmother and my Father – 1914

Here are some Special Pictures of my Father, Alfred Peabody Guion, and his relatives, during his first year of life.

Alfred Peabody Guion at about 6 months old, in 1914.

Alfred Duryee Guion and his first son, Alfred Peabody Guion, 1914

A family portrait, probably after the Christening of baby Alfred. His mother, Arla Mary (Peabody) Guion and father, Alfred Duryee Guion, are in the center, back row. My guess is that the other people in the picture are on the Duryee side of the family. I believe Grandpa’s Aunt Mary K (Duryee) is in the back row next to her husband, C. Preston Goldsmith. In the back row, on the right, is probably Aunt Lizzie, known to our family as Aunt Betty Duryee. In the front, Grandpa’s mother is probably the one holding baby Alfred. On either side of her are Ella and Lizzie’s other sisters, Florence and Lillian.

Tomorrow, more special pictures of my Father and Mother and their first born children.

Judy Guion

Special Pictures – My Great Grandfather, Great Grandmother and My Grandfather – mid – 1880’s

Pictures of immediate ancestors.

Alfred Beck Guion –  circa 1882

Alfred Beck Guion was born on September 24, 1853, probable near New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to New York City and became a Stock Broker on Wall Street. He died of a heart attack at the age of 45, on March 2, 1899.

Ella Duryee – circa 1882

Ella Duryee was born in New York City. Her Father and Uncles ran a Lumber business, importing rare and costly lumber from around the world. 

Alfred Duryee Guion (Grandpa) circa 1886

Alfred Duryee Guion (Grandpa) was born on September 11, 1884.

Tomorrow, some more Special Pictures of Alfred Duryee Guion (Grandpa) and Arla Mary Peabody (Grandma) on their honeymoon in Bermuda. They were married on March 27, 1913 in Mount Vernon, New York.

Judy Guion

Trumbull – Dear Elsie – Family History Concerning Our Grandmother – Clara Maria de los Delores Marina de Beck Guion (4) – July 8, 1940

This letter from Grandpa to his sister, Elsie May Guion, included news of the death and funeral of a close family friend which I will not include, and the very interesting Biography of their Grandmother, Clara Maria de los Delores Marina de Beck Guion. The story begins with Clara’s Grandmother, Juana Cadoret and will fill the entire week.

The page of the Journal where Clara’s marriage to Elijah Guion

A sketch of the marriage Certificate and a Bible

She (Josephine de Beck) was a wealthy woman and henceforth her life, as well as her mother’s (Juana Cadoret), was devoted to her two children. Their home was furnished with every luxury and the children were surrounded with all the evidence of wealth and refinement. Mme. Cadoret was already of great culture and dignity and her influence upon her grandchildren was not small.

When little Clara was five years of age she fell one day while playing, and fractured one of the bones in her ankle. Before she had recovered she was seized with the measles and all of the humor of the disease seemed to center itself in the wounded ankle. For seven years the child was entirely unable to walk. The wound was treated most severely causing her, at many times, great agony. She was strapped to a cot while the wound was burned with caustic until, at last, a hole was formed which reached through the bone, but all treatment was unavailing and the physicians told her mother that amputation was all that was left.

To this, Mme. de Beck would not consent, and when a trip to America was suggested, she seized the idea at once and brought the child to the United States where, in about a year, she recovered the use of her foot. During all this time her education had not been neglected. She was taught with great care and was lifted from her sofa to the piano stool to practice when her health would permit.

A lawsuit had been pending when Mme. de Beck left Cuba. This was decided against her and she lost her wealth. She had been boarding in the school where Clara was a pupil, and the latter now gave lessons in the school to support herself and her mother.

After some time had elapsed she met a gentleman,  and an attachment was formed. Her mother forbade the engagement without giving a reason. Clara, while acceding to her mother’s wishes, could not remain with her.

The page in the Journal where Clara’s marriage is recorded

A sketch of the Marriage Certificate and a Bible

She (Clara) offered herself as a teacher in a large school, was accepted and arrangements were made for her to enter upon her duties at once. The principal promised to send his secretary, Mr. Elijah Guion (my great-grandfather)  to escort her to the school. Claira then told her mother of her plans and although her mother entreated her to withdraw from the agreement, it was too late. At the appointed time she was met by Mr. Guion, escorted to the school and there she began her work. In the course of time Mr. Guion won her consent to accompany him upon the journey through life and on January 2, 1840 they were married in New York.

Tomorrow, the final portion of this journal, which has recorded some of the major life events of three fascinating and courageous women.

Judy Guion