This photo was taken at a studio at 231 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD. They are the children of Mansfield and Harriet (Limerick) Cooksey who were married in Berkeley County, West Virginia 15 June 1871. Harriet apparently died by 1885 as Mansfield remarried that year. Willie Cooksey was born about 1873 and Katie was born about 1879. In Baltimore city directories of 1880 and 1884 Mansfield is listed as a junk dealer. I would like to find descendants of Willie and/or Katie and share the photo. There is another of Willie alone at about 4 years of age.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...