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Hale Hyde Photos

THE HALE HYDE ALBUMS, 1911-1937

Don W. Woodworth

To  Ethel Duff Morgan, the daughter of Maude Hyde Duff, came  four photo albums that record moments in the lives of Horace Hazen Hyde and Caroline (Carrie) Belville Hyde; of their four daughters, Lottie, Maude, Cora, and Flossie; of their sons-in-law and grandchildren.

Ethel, Roy Buzzell, Anne Richardson and I met at Roy’s house in Concord in 1985 to talk family history.  Ethel decided to give her albums to me for safekeeping.  Beginning in March, 2011, I began transferring these albums to Coral Richardson Theberge at Franklin, NH for study and preservation and family use.  I wrote descriptions of the albums as documents of the Hyde-Duff, Hyde-Kinley, and Hyde-Hale families, hoping to establish face recognition, clothing preferences, and body language for individuals.  For example, Flossie almost always poses--alone or in a group--with her chin lowered and her face turned slightly to the side.  And we note that Oley Kinley favors bow ties and has the very high forehead of his mother, Lucy Grist Kinley Casey. Such identifications are still possible, and we hope to make a record for following generations.

Among our sources we count my sister Anne (Annie) Woodworth Richardson, Ethel D. Morgan, Fred Morgan Jr., Fred Firth Jr., Oley Firth, and Roy Buzzell.  Ruth Woodworth Criger, my sister, has prepared extensive computer and paper records of the genealogy of the family.  Bayard Woodworth, my  son, provided technical assistance in the preparation of these images and did an important digital search of Lake Winnisquam, using Google Earth to find the likely site of the Hale camp.

1.  Leon and Cora with their children, Summer, 1915

From the top: Cora Hyde Hale, Leon Paxton Hale, Eva Hale, Edward Hazen Hale holding Gladys  Cote Hale (born  about January 15, 1913), Leoine Daisy Hale (born November 21, 1909). 

Gladys was adopted by Cora and Leon soon after the death at 27 of Cora’s sister, Lottie Marion Hyde Cote, January 28, 1913.

This is probably  taken at the Hale camp east of Loon Island at the north end of Lake Winnisquam, Laconia, NH, a location suggested by other photos (of Loon Island and a nearby hill) and by the family oral tradition of a camp and boat. The photo is probably by Flossie Hyde Kinley.

2.   Hales and Kinleys in the boat, same day, Summer, 1915

From the left: Leon, Cora, Eva, Oley A. Kinley, Edward holding Gladys again, Leoine, Clarence.

Probably by Flossie, whose husband Oley wears the only bow tie in the boat and whose foster son, Clarence H. Cote (born May 6, 1906), sits at the front.  Clarence was Lottie’s firstborn and came to live with the Kinleys in 1913.  Oley and Flossie loved to drive, and were pictured with various cars from about 1916 on.  Here they are visiting from Bristol where they have a boat of their own on Newfound Lake.  Absent this day is Maude Hyde Duff whose home is in Hartford, Vermont with Edward I. Duff and eight children, including Evelyn Cote Duff, Lottie’s second child, born in 1910.

Family tradition says “Leon ran the boat” for his father, Edward Dolan Hale, and let the insurance lapse shortly before the boat and boathouse burned.  (To locate the site of the fire, follow Court Street south from Main Street about a mile to where the road meets Lake Winnisquam.  The boathouse was behind the closest houses on your right.)

3.  Grandfathers and guests at Laconia, 1919

Enlarged from a photo given by Fred Firth, Jr. marked “Laconia, 1919.”

From the left, Edward Dolan Hale seen from the side, Clarence holding a newspaper, Horace Hazen Hyde, Roy Buzzell  (Eva's husband), Oley, William Casey (Oley's stepfather), Leon Paxton Hale with binoculars

Leon was Leoine Hale Woodworth’s father;  Edward Dolan Hale and Horace Hazen Hyde, her grandfathers.

4.  Stopping for a soda, same day, 1919

From the left, Leon, Oley, Edward Dolan Hale in the boat, Horace, [a girl not yet identified], Roy, and William Casey in his ever-present  business suit and hat.

The boat passed a dock where sodas could be found. By 1919, Coca Cola and Pepsi were popular.  The image is enlarged from the original found on the reverse of the photograph in 3 above. 

NOTES:      In the summer of 1919, the First World War has been over about eight months; Oley, seen in photos 3 and 4, is recently back from the Army where he drove ammunition trucks, says Fred Firth, Jr.  Clarence H. Cote, Oley’s foster son, will go to work, probably in a matter of weeks and at 13, on a farm in Campton, NH, where the Census taker will record him in 1920.  Like Oley, he will drive trucks for a living and serve a stint in the Army starting in 1944.  He will be 38 when he enlists at Fort Devens, leaving his wife Irene at home in Lowell doing volunteer work in the Franco-Canadian  community there. Leon, a machinist by trade, has followed his father Edward into the brass foundry at the Laconia Car Company where the molten metal is poured into forms to harden into parts for railroad cars.  Cora works as seamstress and clerk in the dry goods section of a local department store.   Eva will work for the Concord Telephone Company and receive recognition for 30 years of work. Leoine will graduate in 1926 and work with her sister until she meets her future husband, perhaps on the train they both ride on Friday evenings, he from Boston and she from Concord.  They marry in 1931.

-- Don W. Woodworth, Escondido, CA, August  19, 2011