The Kids

The four children of Arthur and Margaret Raymo with their grandmother Emma Handeyside, Dearborn, Michigan, 1911.

A year later in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee -- Arthur, Chester, Roger and Charlotte.

First Day

Arthur Joseph Raymo, on his first day at Hay Long Elementary School, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee in September, 1912. Scanned from a 4x6 inch glass plate negative.

Gone South

In 1911, Arthur Elsworth Raymo and his family moved from Dearborn, Michigan to Mount Pleasant, a small mining town in central Tennessee. Arthur accepted a new position as the superintendent of the Rhum Phosphate Mining Company.

This c.1912 portrait shows Arthur and Margaret with their four young children; Arthur, Charlotte, Chester and Roger.