Odebolt photos - small collections

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Girvan Collection
from Barb Horak and Bonnie Ekse

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 Swedish Mission Covenant Church &
parsonage, early 1900's

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 Looking east down 1st
& 2nd Sts., showing livery
barn, c 1910

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 North Main, looking north from the bridge, c 1910

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 Looking north on South Main, 1910

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 Second Street looking west


Looking south down Main St. c 1910


The west side of Main just south of the corner of Main and 3rd St., showing buildings which stood where the dentist office now stands. Scanned from a photo in George Dresselhuis' office.

   

 

Lundell Collection
Photos from Joan (Lundell) Paup of Denison, Iowa

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2nd Street, early 1900's

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Marvin and Edna Hultman of Essex, Iowa on the school log swing, 1932

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1921 photo of Andrew Johnson's mother, who lived with him and his wife, Sophie.

 

Vallow Collection

Photos from Linda Vallow of Arcadia, CA, a descendant of Anders Myrell.  She sent the below photos to Odebolt so they could have a home in the Odebolt Museum after they had been scanned.

 

Anders Gustav Myrell in his carriage and blacksmith shop in Odebolt, circa 1917.

NOTE:  Additional information and photos were posted on this family June 7, 2015.
Click on Anders Gustav Myrell to view the new page.

Close-up view of the photo to the left.  The two young men at the left could be Alexander Myrell, about 17, and his brother LeRoy, about 12 or 13.

Ice Skating in Odebolt, early 1900's.  See "Ice Skating in Odebolt".

Room #4 in the second Odebolt School, about 1908-1912

Room #7 in the second Odebolt School, about 1908-1912

  

From Ancestry.com's World Tree
Anders Gustav Myrell, son Nils Nilsson and Sophia Nilsdotter, was born 26 May 1859 in Gunnarskoog, Varmland, Sweden, and died 15 March 1941 in Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI. He married Kristina Westerlund 8 Nov 1893 in Arthur, IA, daughter of Andrew Westerlund and Brita Jonsdotter. She was born 18 March 1873 in Bollnas, Gefleborgs, Lan Halingland, Sweden, and died 28 Oct. 1964 in Pewaukee, Waukesha, WI.  Children (all born in Odebolt except the youngest): Albert, Effie, Ruby, Alexander, Julia, Leroy, and Blanche

THE CHRONICLE. VOL. 19. NO. 44. MARCH 1. 1906
Koehler & Hanson have purchased from A. G. Myrell the site which Albert Stevens formerly occupied with a blacksmith shop, and have let the contract for a warehouse to John McFarland. The building will be a two-story frame, 30 feet wide in front and 70 feet wide in the rear, with a depth of 60 feet.
 

 

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