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A Cabinet Card Photograph of Earl Trinkhaus, The Photography of Edwin P. Baker & Ephraim Partridge

There'll be some jumping around here because that's what I do. This photo of Earl Trinkhaus by photographer Edwin P. Baker of Plymouth is currently available on eBay for $150. It's a great photo but...a little too rich for my tastes. I could only find incidental mentions of Trinkhaus in the newspapers but am told that he was a carpenter who lived in Northville and is buried at Riverside Cemetery. Baker was a longtime photographer in the village having worked there most of his 60 years in the profession. He died at the residence of his granddaughter Mrs. C. H. Rauch in P lymouth. He was married to Marie Marshall in 1853 and they had two children. All three preceded him in death. He is buried in Riverside Cemetery. The Plymouth Mail , November 19, 1915 As is Ephraim Partridge, who I assume had a much more eventful life than having been the father-in-law of Laura Ruppert Partridge , the schoolteacher who went insane and drowned herself in the lake at Eloise. Mr. Partridge...