Photo Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Caption |
E-6C-1 |
Description |
Color photograph of section E-6C-1 inside the Great Northern Railway Depot on Adams Street in Hutchinson, MN. This 8"x16" section of the panel features the text, "Ward J. Stearns." Ward J. Stearns was born in Hutchinson in May 1, 1899 to Edgar and Mary Stearns who were both born in New York. His siblings, all older, were Max, Gertrude, Marion, Spencer, and Lydia. During the 1900 census the Stearns family was living in Hutchinson. As a child, Ward attended Sunday School at Congregational Church in Hutchinson. Ward completed a registration card for the draft for World War I. In 1920 he was still living with his parents in their home that was paid for with a bank mortgage. Ward served in the National Guard with Company G, 135th Infantry as a private. Ward was twenty-nine years old when he married Esther. They were married in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 7, 1929. She was the daughter of Juanita and Fred Scott, born in Oklahoma on March 6, 1902. Her father died in 1912. She was twenty-seven when they wed. In 1930 Ward and Esther lived at 301 West Oakland Avenue in a home they were renting. They did not have any children and he owned a hardware store. Within three years the couple moved to Austin, Minnesota where Ward worked as a Vice President. They lived at 803 West Allegheny. They had one child named Joan Scott Stearns. By 1954 they had moved to Alhambra, California. According to the California Death Index, Ward died on March 19, 1954 in Los Angeles. Esther died in 1984. |
Catalog Number |
2017-0139-236 |
Search Terms |
Depot Graffiti Great Northern Depot, Hutchinson, MN Great Northern Railway Great Northern Railroad Graffiti Congregational Church Hutchinson, Minnesota National Guard Austin, Minnesota |
Subjects |
Depots Graffiti Historic sites Railroad companies Trains |
People |
Stearns, Ward J. Stearns, Edgar Stearns, Mary Stearns, Max Stearns, Gertrude Stearns, Marion Stearns, Spencer Stearns, Lydia Stearns, Esther Scott, Juanita Scott, Fred Stearns, Joan Scott |