Cold, windy day. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast, visited etc. Left Elmhurst at 10:17 A.M. Excellent road. 60 miles first 2 hours with a couple of stops. Dinner at Rockford, Illinois. Rockford a nice city of about 60,000 people. We made a call on Father's cousin, Frank Cramer (one of a pair of twins). Drove about 6 miles to Cherry Valley to another of Father's cousins, George Cramer, brother of Frank, mentioned. He makes hand made brooms. His wife Fannie and her mother Mrs. Lee also there. Went to George's broom shop, put car in garage etc. Supper, talked, wrote in diary, letters etc. Chopped wood for awhile. Cherry Valley a nice little country village of 700 people.
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Looks like they were speeding right along--30 miles per hour! Below is a possible route for them, taken from Google Maps.
One of the letters Stanford wrote this day was to Mary Leah, posted at the page Letters: June 5 & 7, 1923. In it he gives a bit more detail about the relatives, especially the taxi driver who was, as he put it, "just passed out of adolescence," and who risked being rude by going off to see a girlfriend rather than stay with his relatives. Stanford said he took the young man's part, however, knowing how that can be.
Frederick, Franklin and George Cramer are sons of Catherine Cramer's brother, John Brooks Cramer, who died fairly young, aged 37. George had been a broom maker for quite a few years, according to an 1877 history of Winnebago county. See the section below, listing inhabitants:
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Looks like they were speeding right along--30 miles per hour! Below is a possible route for them, taken from Google Maps.
One of the letters Stanford wrote this day was to Mary Leah, posted at the page Letters: June 5 & 7, 1923. In it he gives a bit more detail about the relatives, especially the taxi driver who was, as he put it, "just passed out of adolescence," and who risked being rude by going off to see a girlfriend rather than stay with his relatives. Stanford said he took the young man's part, however, knowing how that can be.
Frederick, Franklin and George Cramer are sons of Catherine Cramer's brother, John Brooks Cramer, who died fairly young, aged 37. George had been a broom maker for quite a few years, according to an 1877 history of Winnebago county. See the section below, listing inhabitants:
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