This is William Albert Harbeston. He was in WW1. This is his picture. He was my Mother's father.
He lived most of his life in and around Brandsville and West Plains Missouri. He worked in the coal mines and for the railroad. He was born July 21, 1894 in Missouri and died October 6, 1955 in Peoria Illinois
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...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The Eisenhower Years - A Time of Optimism and Growth
After the Great Depression and World War II, everyone was ready to take a breath and have fun. Population boomed, families moved to the suburbs, television (by the end of the decade) would be in most...
Trains, engineers, railroad workers, passengers, depots, and spectacular tracks and bridges - these photos of steam and diesel powered transportation are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Since the invention of the first steam train in 1804, trains have created massive cultural changes: They have changed the way we travel, the work we do, and even the food we eat. They are also a roman...
Photos of the harsh living and working conditions of miners and prospectors and of the men who endured this life.
The lives of miners and prospectors involved grueling, backbreaking, and dangerous work with long hours and low pay. Especially in coal mining: workers and their families lived in company housing, sh...
My Dad's family was the Miller/Washburn family from Illinois. My Mothers family is/was the Harbeston/McKinney/Anderson/Old from Missouri/Arkansas.
I married into the Breweur/Crutchley/Kindred family from Illinois and Missoouri
I would love to meet other family members as some of the family I don't know much about as most of the information has died with the passing of family members.