A photo of Samuel J. Lewis at DIckman's photo gallery. My grandfather had a 240 acre wheat farm. He married one of his neighbors (Thomas Barker) sisters. As a young man he drove his doctor father around in a carriage and learned about drugs. In frontier California, he was the closest thing to a doctor the settlers had. Mother said he cured Uncle Emmit Barkers cataracts with a formula brewed in eggshells on the stove.
Antique photos showing men's grooming habits - their beards, mustaches, and other types of facial hair.
Did you know that at times in which there are more women than men - that is, when there is a smaller chance that a man will find a mate - beards become more fashionable? It's not that women prefer fac...
Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.