2001947 Henry’s Letter
Sitting by “the inviting warmth of the stove”.
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Sitting by “the inviting warmth of the stove”.
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Excerpt from letter John wrote to Henry one winter day. “This morning the 23rd it is snowing and it has snowed all last night, and it is a most beutyfull scene to look out and see the snow on the trees, it’s about the nicest I ever saw. that is something you cant see now.”
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Henry continued his note on the back, with a promise of a reward if it was returned to him.
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Henry was in Grangeville, Idaho when he decided to leave a wooden note and see if anyone would find it and return it to him. Someone must have returned it.
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When Henry and his Mother Mary were very worried about paying taxes during the Great Depression, they arranged with Joseph Honecker to buy many of John’s taxidermy items. He never did pay them. There was a misunderstanding, saying that it was all dependent on his ability to sell to the man in Brooklyn and it
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Here is an excerpt of a long Christmas letter, describing how Mary lost her money in the bank during the Great Depression.
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Henry Lorang paid with eggs for the birth of more than one of his children. Here it is in exchange for Mary Alice (Mae’s) birth in 1933, during the Great Depression.
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Henry and his mother Mary Lorang, later made arrangements to sell some of John’s taxidermy items from his museum to pay the taxes.
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First page of the record of the Lorang and Hermann families from Germany.
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