Ensminger Children
This portrait is of Carrie Ensminger, J.C. Ensminger's daughter, at an unspecified time. Carrie Ensminger was born in 1882 and attended school at the Little Red School House in 1893. She would later become a teacher at Sanford Grammar School, and is listed on the teacher's roster in 1910.
This portrait is of Mary Ensmigner, J.C. Ensminger's eldest daughter. According to the "History of Buchanan County, Iowa", in 1881 Mary was five years old. Which would place her year of birth between 1875 and 1876. In this portrait, taken during some time in the 1900s, Mary appears to be in her mid to late twenties.
This photograph is a portrait of a young man in his early teens, wearing a suit, popular in style of the early 1900s. A note on the back of the photograph indicates that the photograph is of Ensminger's son.
This photograph is a portrait of a man in his mid twenties, wearing the traditional Victorian-era collar, cravat, and three-piece suit. Evidence indicates that the young man in this photograph should be Fredrick Ensminger, born 1877.