Lulu Stiles Van Horn

Purchased
Antique Store
Montavilla Neighborhood
Portland, Oregon

Type
Cabinet Card
(circa 1866 - 1906)

Studio
Peavey & Peterson
Faribault, Minnesota

Notations
With love and best wishes of your friend,
Lulu Stiles Van Horn
Faribault, Minnesota
Feb 13, 1891

Research
Lulu Stiles Van Horn b. Mar 1864, Minnesota, d. 9 Oct 1933. Buried in Maple Lawn Cemetery, Wells, Rice Co., Minnesota.

She accepted a teaching job to the Annie Wright Seminary at Tacoma, Washington in August 1891. She was living with her parents in the 1900 census of Faribault City, Rice Co., Minnesota and working as a teacher. In 1930 she was living with her 80-year-old widowed sister, Laura S. Richardson in Faribault.

Parents
Benjamin L. Van Horn, a miller, b. Aug 1827 Massachusetts and Lucy A. b. Nov 1827 Massachusetts.

Sources
Benjamin Van Horn household, 1900 U.S. census, Rice County, Minnesota, population schedule, town of Faribault, enumeration district [ED] 150, supervisor's district [SD] 3, sheet 14B, dwelling 304, family 315; National Archives micropublication T623, roll 788.

Dalby, John. Minnesota Newspaper Headlines. [database on-line] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. Faribault Republican Newspaper August 26, 1891.

Laura S. Richardson household, 1930 U.S. census, Rice County, Minnesota, population schedule, town of Faribault, enumeration district [ED] 8, supervisor's district [SD] 10, sheet 2A, dwelling 34, family 38; National Archives micropublication T626, roll 1124.

Dalby, John. Minnesota Burials. [database on-line] Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003.

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