66.01.172

Print, Photographic

1912 Approximate

Arlington Club Members. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9 3/8". Description: black and white photograph of the Arlington Club members at a social function; all dressed in dark suits and ties; room festively decorated. Photograph taken in the basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn. Identified L-R: (front row) 1. ? Jacobson; 2. Bill Gutfleisch; 3. Bill Turnacliff; 4. Leo Fieberger; 5. Ed Kelly; 6. Merritt Hemingway; 7. Ed Staehlin; (second row) 1. Sam Johnson; 2. Dutch Kritzer; 3. Art Brisbane; 4. Dan Mahoney; 5. Ben Manthy; 6. George Grapp; 7. Bill Staehlin; 8. Van Wald; 9. Al Wobschall; 10. Thomeson or Thoreson; (third row) 1. Dr. Ben Gallagher; 2. Dr. Fred Prail (mayor); 3. William Rinehart Everett; 4. Bob Castor; 5. ? Jacobson (Variety store owner); 6. Cleve Turnacliff; 7. Ted Bilben; 8. Jim Dahle; (fourth row) 1. Carl Sommerstad; 2. Fred Gray; 3. Lewis Phillips; 4. ?; 5. Oscar Anderson; 6. ?; 7. Art Castor; 8. ?; 9. Clare Brisbane; 10. ?; 11. Frank Gallagher; 12. ? Bennett; 13. Bill Guyer; 14. Ned Brown; 15. Roy Frentz; 16. Roy Bell; photographed by Obermeyer, Waseca, Minn. (Album 2 photo 58) See accession 114.81.2.

The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County. This photo is from one of the Everett family albums, one entirely devoted to documenting the childhood of William Rinehart Everett, son of E. A. and Nettie Everett, and the donor's father. William R. Everett was born in Waseca, Minn., on May 13, 1891. Arlington Club was a young men's social club in Waseca at the turn of the 20th century. The club was organized about 1903 and disbanded after WWI in 1918. They met in the basement meeting room of the First National Bank at 100 North State Street, Waseca, Minn. See Waseca Journal - Radical 15 May 1918 for more information. The WCHS has the complete dinner set of china used by the club. Waseca business: First National Bank. Waseca organization: Arlington Club.