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short ties were all the rage back then

Chandler Hale was an Assistant Secretary of State. "Virbeck" should have correct spelling "Verbeck" query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0DEFDF123AE6...

August 4, 1911 per NY Times "Last night he wore a light gray overcoat, a black suit, black derby and patent leather shoe" -Togo "Those in the party that went on board the Lusitania to welcome Admiral Togo were Third Assistant Secretary of State Chandler Hale and Capt. Templin M. Potts, U.S.N, representing the United States Government; Major Gen. Frederick D. Grant, commanding the Easter Division of the Army on Governors Island; Commander Hiraga, the Japanese Naval Attache in Washington; Mr. Hanihara, the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy; Adjutant Gen. William Verbeck of the New York National Guard, who represented the State of New York, and Gen. Nelson H. Henry, the Surveyor of the Port." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EEDE1531E2...

Ck tags for other photos from Togo's visit to the U.S.

Another Bain/LOC photo of the after-dark reception of Admiral Togo in New York. (Togo actually disembarked in New York after midnight, on the morning of August 4, 1911; the photographer may have been dozing -- his camera suffered a jolt during the exposure:

LOC -- your misspelling of Verbeck in the title has not been emended. The error appears to have originated with Bain.

Could he be the Dr W J Brennan of Dunmore East, who died suddenly "in the prime of life" in 1942? Keen on cricket, badminton and tennis. Left a widow and young family. "Behind a somewhat brusque and abrupt manner there was a generous heart" (Waterford Standard - Saturday 21 February 1942). I'm not sure the ages match up satisfactorily, unless "prime of life" includes being in his 50s. (Guessing Bertie is in his teens in the photo and born circa 1890).

6 July 1905 was a Thursday ...

CIvil death records show WIlliam Joseph Brennon, medical practitioner, of "Sunnyside", Dunmore East, died Feb 1942 aged 55. Therefore born 1887-ish, so would be 18ish at the time of the Poole photo.

If indeed Dr. W.J. Brennan, then read third column, toward the bottom of this- snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/enewspapers/dungarvan_o...

CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY Hmm. Unlikely to be the doctor then, if he was born in Co Clare and came to Dunmore East via the British Army in Mesopotamia, and University in Cork and Edinburgh. PS The Musselburgh News reports him winning a Territorial Sports long jump competition in Edinburgh on 21st June 1912. Even if the Poole photo matches his time at Cork (18, just started his studies), the Tramore address doesn't fit.