Howell Area Archives Digital Archive

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  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0067_u.jpg

    A photo of Robert (left) and Frederick (right) McPherson. The photo was taken by Emil Bode in 1918, at McPherson Mansion.

    Robert and Frederick were the children of of Eva Love Hickey McPherson and Robert Bruce McPherson. Robert was born July 27, 1903, and would be about 15 years old in the photo. Frederick was born on August 20th, 1911, and would have been around 6 years old.
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0066_u.jpg

    The William McPherson Family - 1878.

    Caption: Back row standing - left to right - Wm. McPherson Jr., Alexander McPherson, M. J. McPherson, B. G. McPherson. Second row - Mrs. Henry H. Mills, Mrs. Edward P. Gregory, Mrs. Henry T. Browning. Seated - Wm. McPherson Sr., Mrs. Wm. McPherson Sr., Mrs F. A. Smith
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0065_u.jpg

    William McPherson and Children - 1878
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0063_u.jpg

    A photo of Robert Bruce McPherson with his wife Eva Love Hickey McPherson and their children Robert and Frederick McPherson. 

    This photo was taken in 1918 on the porch at the McPherson mansion. Most likely taken by Emil Bode on the same day as several other pictures of the family. R. Bruce Mcpherson was a businessman prominent in Howell Michigan. The mansion was built in 1915, three years before the photo was taken.
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0062_u.jpg

    R. Bruce McPherson was a well known Howell businessman, the president of McPherson Bank, and an insurance broker. He had the McPherson Mansion on Michigan Avenue built in 1915. McPherson was the son of William McPherson Jr. and Jennie M. Ranney.

    Date unknown.
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  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0044_u.jpg

    A photo of William McPherson Jr. He was a buissnessman and prominent member of the community in Howell during his life. He was born around Inveruess, Scotland, on March 9, 1834. His family immigrated to Howell in 1836. 

    McPherson worked in his father's mercantile bussiness, and later became the owner of a large amount of real estate. He was also a notable figure of the state convention of the Republican party, and was appointed to the railway commision in 1885. 

    He was married to Jennie M. Ranney in 1859, and they had four children. Three of them were Alice McPherson Spencer, R. Bruce Mcpherson, and Jay W. Bigelow.

    The date this photo was taken is unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0039_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of the "McPherson Clan", at Under Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1906.

    The individual identities of the family are unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0038_u.jpg

    This is a portrait of Claudia McPherson, Howell, Michigan, 1913.
  • HCDL-ngp-ZNB002-02-0037_u.jpg

    This  is a photograph of May Story, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1913, and was included in the McPherson Family Photo Collection.
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