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James Martinus Schoonmaker (1842-1927), Civil War veteran, vice-president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railway Company, on the board of directors at Mellon Bank; husband of Rachel Cook, father of three (Gretchen, William, and JM Jr.): profilesintime.blogspot.com/2007/03/james-martinus-schoon...

Thanks pennylrichardsca for the information about the career of James Schoonmaker. He even had a cargo ship named after him! We'll fill in the title information next time we update the record.

Photo is inscribed with the date (in reverse), 6/25/[19]13. That was the year in which a biography of Schoonmaker was published, titled "Colonel J. M. Schoonmaker and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad -- A Study of Personality and Ideals." You can read the complete text on Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=eH0pAAAAYAAJ&dq=j+m+schoonm...

Wystan: Thanks for spotting the date on the negative. We can add that information to the description, too, when we update it. Nice to connect it up with the biography!

I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martinus_Schoonmaker

See comment under www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/8599836135/

Thanks B-59, we'll add his full name to the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_E._Bland "Oscar Edward Bland (November 21, 1877 – August 3, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, and a long-serving judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals."