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  1: Alfred Schmidt in World War I uniform about 1919, on the family farmstead. Wood pile was stacked along the driveway; "chicken barn" is visible in background.
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  9: Hannah Schmidt Eggert and her mother, Wilhelmina Preppernau Schmidt, about 1885. Wilhelmina was also the mother of Fred W. Schmidt, grandmother of Alfred L. Schmidt, and great-grandmother of Claude & Ruben Schmidt.
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  11: assuming this is the other half of their wedding day picture, it was 1885-02-06 (he was 22 – born May 1863)
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  14: Alfred L. Schmidt about 1910.
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  16: The Ernest & Minnie Ruhbusch family, about 1912. Ernest was the uncle of our grandmother Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt, so the kids in this photo were her first cousins. Marie, second from right in the back row, was Irmgard's age. The ancestry.com family tree I got the photo from lists the family members as: back, Ernest Jr., Amanda, Helena, Arlo, Marie, Ella; front Minnie (Wilhelmina Schenk), Clara, Minnie, and Ernest.
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  17: Alfred Schmidt, confirmation photo, age 14, 1916.
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  18: Alfred Schmidt plays with nephews, about 1918.
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  19: Alfred L. Schmidt in World War I Army uniform.
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  20: Brothers Eldor (about 15), Alfred (26), and Ed (24) Schmidt in front of what was later called the "car barn" on the family farmstead.
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  21: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt when she worked for the family of Jane Bradley Pettit (born Sullivan and adopted by her mother's second husband) in Milwaukee in 1918, the year before she married. Her mother was born on the ship on the way over from Germany - in 1865.
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  22: Fred W. and Anna Fredericka Schmidt family, about 1918. Back, left to right, Laura Schmidt Otto (about 29), Edmund (24), Adeline (20), Otto (31), Elsie (32), Eldor (15). Front, Alvina Schmidt Wruck (22), "Rika" (52), Alfred (26), Fred (55), and Hildegard (17).
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  23: Alfred L. Schmidt, second son of Fred & Rika Schmidt, in his World War I sergeant's uniform circa 1918. Alfred was drafted and served as a mess sergeant at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The war ended before he could be sent to Europe.
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  25: Alfred Schmidt built brick silos with this signature pattern in 1919-1920, before and just after he and Irmgard were married.
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  26: Circa 1919 - anaother brick silo Alfred Schmidt built. He made $75 a week -- more than many laborers earned in a month -- and saved enough money to buy his father's farm.
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  27: Circa 1919 -- Alfred's lack of fear of heights was a real asset when building silos.
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  28: Alfred Schmidt models his World War I uniform in front of the family farm house, about 1919.
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  29: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and Alfred Schmidt, circa 1919.
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  31: Ruben Schmidt at age 9 months, posed on the bearskin rug from the bear shot by his great-grandfather Gottfried Schmidt
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  32: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and first born son, Ruben, 1921.
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  36: brothers Claude & Ruben Schmidt about 1926
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  37: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and sons Claude and Ruben, about 1928, in back of farm house
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  38: Brothers Claude & Ruben Schmidt on family farm, about 1928
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  39: Anna Fredericka & Fred W. Schmidt, circa 1930s.
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  40: Road in front of the Schmidt farm after a big snow storm about 1932. The Herman H. Schmidt farmstead (later Vernon Schmidt's) is in the background. AlfredSchmidt is in front of his Model T Ford with son Claude and dog Glückie.
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  41: June, 1936: Fred W. Schmidt, son Alfred, unknown (possibly William's daughter), Fred's brother William, Alfred's sons Ruben and Claude. At the back portch of the farmhouse built by Fred W. and owned by Alfred at the time the photo was taken.
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  42: Claude Schmidt's 8th-grade class at the Hohn one-room country schoo, 1936. Left-to-right are Claude, Phyllis Peter, Bennie Schwartz, and Lorene Otto.
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  43: Alfred Schmidt and sons Ruben and Claude, circa 1936, pose on the driveway of the family farm.
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  44: Memorial Day 1936. Brother Ruben (center) and Claude (right) Schmidt pose in front of Spirea bush under elm tree on the family farm. The "chicken" barn is visible on the right.
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  45: Ruben F. Schmidt's high-school graduation photo, 1937. He was 16 years old.
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  46: When Claude Schmidt was 14 years old, his dear pet cat Caesar gto run over in the road by their house. He asked his mother to take this picture of him with the cat.
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  47: Claude Schmidt's high-school graduation photo, 1941. He was 16 years old.
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  48: Claude Schmidt took off his sophomore year of college in 1943 to return home to work the farm for his father Alfred, who had nearly died from a burst appendix the year before and was unable to handle all the farm chores. Working the family farm also gave Claude a deferment from the draft which followed the Pearl Harbor attack and the US's entry into World War II, which being a pre-med college student probably would not have.
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  49: Alfred Schmidt family circa 1943, when oldest son Ruben was called into military service in World War II. Left-to-right are Irmgard (née Ruhbusch), Claude, Alfred, and Ruben.
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  50: Claude Schmidt worked the family farm in 1943 with these horses. The "chicken barn" is in the background.
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  51: Claude Schmidt and dog Mickey on the family farm, about 1944. Claude is wearing his Navy midshipman's uniform because he was enrolled in the Navy's V-12 program for pre-med students.
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  52: Claude Schmidt in Navy cadet uniform, circa 1944.
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  53: Claude Schmidt in Navy cadet uniform in 1944 at age 19.
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  54: Alfred Schmidt models his World War I Army uniform alongside his son Ruben in his World War II uniform, about 1944.
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  55: Alfred Schmidt in his World War I uniform alongside son Claude in his Navy cadet uniform, about 1945.
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  56: Claude Schmidt on the family farm with a sheep, about 1946.
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  57: Claude Schmidt college graduation, 1946.
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  58: Claude Schmidt was working with his father Alfred (pictured) cutting hay when the load tipped over (about 1946). Claude ran to get a second pitchfork to clean up, and also grabbed his camera to get this shot. His father was less than amused that Claude stopped to take a picture.
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  59: Alfred Schmidt about 1946 in his leather rocker in the farmhouse kitchen. The bench his sons Ruben and Claude sat on for meals is visible to the right, and the Regulator clock is above him on the wall.
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  60: Claude Schmidt and roommate Chenoweth Watson in front of "Pres House," the Presbyterian student house where they roomed at the University of Wisconsin. One of their jobs at the house was to shovel coal in the basement for the furnace. There was a shower in the basement, so rather than get their clothes all dirty, they shoveled coal in the nude and then showered!
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  61: Claude Schmidt about 1946, probably in Madison, Wisconsin.
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  62: Claude Schmidt circa 1946.
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  63: Claude Schmidt in the lap of the Lincoln statue in front of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus. In those days, coeds would always walk behind the statue, because the students claimed that Lincoln would stand up if a virgin walked in front of him!
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  64: Claude Schmidt circa 1946.
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  65: UW undergraduate Claude Schmidt weighs something.
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  66: Claude Schmidt works on the photo album for his parents that this photo was mounted in. It used an iron-on adhesive to display the photos on the black pages. About 1946, probably in his student room on the UW campus.
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  67: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt and the family dog, Tippy, about 1946.
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  68: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt shows off Tippy's skills at the farm house back porch, about 1946.
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  69: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt tends the garden behind the farm house, c. 1946.
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  70: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt in her flower garden behind the farm house, about 1946.
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  71: Irmgard Schmidt shows off how gentle the family dog, Tippy, is with a litter of kittens.
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  72: Schmidt family farm outhouse and the smoke house built by Alfred's father Fred W. Schmidt, about 1936, when the smoke house was no longer in use.
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  73: 1946 - the old milk house attached to the cow barn on the Schmidt family farm.
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  74: 1946 - tearing down the old milk house in preparation for building a new one.
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  75: 1946 - the old milk house is nearly gone.
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  76: 1946 - the framework of the new milk house is visible on the left, as the outline of the old milk house is still seen on the side of the cow barn.
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  77: 1946 - the new milk house is taking shape.
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  78: 1946 - Alfred Schmidt puts finishing touches on the new milk house attached to the cow barn on his farm, with "help" from Tippy. That MAY be his wife Irmgard next to him on the roof.
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  79: Alfred & Irmgard Schmidt check the mail box at the end of their farm driveway, circa 1946.
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  80: Alfred Schmidt checks the mail at the road in front of his farm, about 1946.
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  81: Ruben, Claude, Irmgard, and Alfred Schmidt, November, 1947.
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  82: Alfred and Irmgard Schmidt with granddaughter -- either Becky or Rachel Schmidt.
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  83: Claude Schmidt's medical school graduation, June, 1949.
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  84: Claude Schmidt's family celebrates his medical school graduation, June, 1949. Left-to-right are his mother Irmgard, Claude, his brother Ruben, and father Alfred.
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  85: 1949 Claude Schmidt -- is this his first car (a green Studebaker)?
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  87: Alfred Schmidt and his oldest granddaughter Rebecca Schmidt, about 1950.
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  88: Alfred Schmidt and his oldest granddaughter, Rebecca Schmidt, about 1950.
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  89: Alfred Schmidt, about 1950.
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  90: Alfred Schmidt.
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  91: Claude Schmidt and his mother Irmgard, about 1950.
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  92: Tippy at the entrance to the Schmidt family farm, about 1950.
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  93: Irmgard Ruhbusch Schmidt with Tippy and cat.
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  94: Ruben Schmidt, father Alfred, and daughter Rebecca, about 1950.
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  95: Ruben Schmidt with his <year> Studebaker, about 1950.
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  96: Sisters Marie and Althea Schmidt with Irmgard and Alfred Schmidt (their mother's first cousin on the Kucksdorf side).
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  97: Claude Schmidt and his father Alfred, about 1950.
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  98: Claude Schmidt holding his oldest niece, Rebecca Schmidt, about 1950.
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  99: Anna Fredericka Kucksdorf Schmidt and great-grandedaughter Greta Schmidt (Perleberg), 1952, when "Ricka" was 86 years old.
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  100: Claude Schmidt, flight surgeon, aboard the USS Lake Champlain aircraft carrier stationed off Korea, 1953.
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  101: Claude Schmidt hands a piece of sewer pipe to his father, Alfred, as they worked on extending the sewer line to the north of the family farm house in 1953. The Herman H. Schmidt (later Vernon Schmidt) farmstead is visible in the background,
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