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Six more photos. Can I identify these men? This photograph is from the Douglas studio of Evansville, Indiana. On the back in pencil is "Jake Lemmon." Evansville is in Vandenburgh County. Unfortunately, no good candidate for this man could be identified in census records. Jake Lemmon. A photograph taken at the Prescher studio at the corner of 6th and Chestnut Streets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the back in pen is "Papa's father, and brother to Hy Schloemer's wife Margaret. Hy. Schloemer Sr & Margaret Schloemer, his wife, are Alma's [or Oma's?] father & mother. 1883." I failed to find any person named Hy Schloemer. I eventually searched  on Ancestry Family Tree for a person named Marg* married to a Schloemer. On the 1880 census was Henry Schloemer and his wife Margarethe. They had four children- Mary, Caroline, Phillip, and Henry. On Findagrave the couple is listed as being buried in the Union Cemetery in West Bend, Washington County, Wisconsi...