MABEL, LIL, STEENIE, AND ORESTES: ~ABOUT THEM~---document-links---pictures---related pages---site navigation
Mabel, Lil, and Steenie were good friends of Alma. Lil was from Canton, Steenie's family lived in Canton for a while. Mabel was from New Jersey.
Mabel and Lil were musical, and they lived together in Philadelphia. I therefore speculate that when Eva's marriage to Frank Evans went bad in New York in 1912, they were the ones who found her a job in Philadelphia teaching music.
Details about individuals:
Lily Love, a.k.a. Lil. I've come across a mention of another member of her family in Canton, but mostly it's Lil.
Steenie: Abastenia St. Leger Eberle. The Eberle family gets a few mentions, but I'm putting Steenie with Mabel and Lil. Steenie has Wikipedia article about her, which says:
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (April 6, 1878 – February 26, 1942) was an American sculptor known for her energetic, small bronze sculptures depicting poor immigrants on New York's City's Lower East Side.
Mabel Watson - full name: Mabel Madison Watson. She is originally mentioned as Steenie's roommate on 7/8/1903, and for a long time she lived with Lily Love in Philadelphia. Wikipedia says:
Mabel Madison Watson (December 16, 1872 – September 12, 1952) was an American composer who taught piano and violin students. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to James Madison Watson and Emma Hopper Watson.
Orestes Cleveland, a ward of Mabel Watson's family, born about 1898. He stayed with the Stokeys while going to school in Oberlin in the 19-aughts. We never hear of him again (actually, there's a mention of him in a 1910 letter) and I don't find anything about him when I google on the name, even though it's rather distinctive. So I worry that something might have happened to him...but newspapers.com has a Lieutenant (naval) Orestes Cleveland in Honolulu in 1928, so maybe he was OK.
Mabel and Lil were musical, and they lived together in Philadelphia. I therefore speculate that when Eva's marriage to Frank Evans went bad in New York in 1912, they were the ones who found her a job in Philadelphia teaching music.
Details about individuals:
Lily Love, a.k.a. Lil. I've come across a mention of another member of her family in Canton, but mostly it's Lil.
Steenie: Abastenia St. Leger Eberle. The Eberle family gets a few mentions, but I'm putting Steenie with Mabel and Lil. Steenie has Wikipedia article about her, which says:
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (April 6, 1878 – February 26, 1942) was an American sculptor known for her energetic, small bronze sculptures depicting poor immigrants on New York's City's Lower East Side.
Mabel Watson - full name: Mabel Madison Watson. She is originally mentioned as Steenie's roommate on 7/8/1903, and for a long time she lived with Lily Love in Philadelphia. Wikipedia says:
Mabel Madison Watson (December 16, 1872 – September 12, 1952) was an American composer who taught piano and violin students. She was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to James Madison Watson and Emma Hopper Watson.
Orestes Cleveland, a ward of Mabel Watson's family, born about 1898. He stayed with the Stokeys while going to school in Oberlin in the 19-aughts. We never hear of him again (actually, there's a mention of him in a 1910 letter) and I don't find anything about him when I google on the name, even though it's rather distinctive. So I worry that something might have happened to him...but newspapers.com has a Lieutenant (naval) Orestes Cleveland in Honolulu in 1928, so maybe he was OK.
MABEL, LIL, STEENIE, AND ORESTES: about-them---~DOCUMENT LINKS~---pictures---related pages---site navigation
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- 1901-08-16 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA ----- Lil
- 1901-08-25 LETTER FROM EVA TO ALMA ----- Lil
- 1903-04-21 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Lil
- 1903-06-28 LETTER FROM EVA TO ALMA ----- Steenie
- 1903-07-08 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Mabel, Lil, Steenie
- 1903-08-22 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Mabel, Lil, Steenie, Orestes
- 1903-08-26 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL ----- Mabel
- 1903-09-13 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL ----- Steenie
- 1903-12-27 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Mabel, Lil, Steenie
- 1904-06-15 LETTER FROM EVA TO MAMA MARGARET ----- Lil
- 1904-08-22 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Mabel, Lil
- 1904-09-04 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL ----- Lil
- 1905-08-07 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL----- Lil, Steenie
- 1905-08-29 LETTER FROM ALMA TO WILL----- Lil, Steenie
- 1907-12-16 LETTER FROM WILL TO EVA ----- Orestes
- 1908-03-03 LETTER FROM WILL TO MAMA MARGARET ----- Orestes
- 1909-12-22 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO WILL ----- Mabel, Lil, Orestes
- 1911-05-21 LETTER FROM WILL & MARGARET TO EVA ----- Orestes
- 1914-12-10 LETTER FROM MAMA MARGARET TO ALMA ----- Mabel, Lil
- 1915-12-26 LETTER FRAGMENT FROM EVA TO ALMA ----- Mabel, Lil
- 1924-09-17 POSTCARD FROM MABEL AND LIL TO EVA ----- Mabel, Lil
- 1925-04-08 NEWSPAPER ITEM MENTIONING ALMA AND EVA ----- Mabel, Lil
- 1926-12-09 LETTER FROM EVA TO KAY ----- Mabel, Lil
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No pictures yet. Need to add one of Lil.
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