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For as long as I've worked at the library this picture has always been labeled Mrs. R. D. Amy, the wife of last month's subject, R. D. Amy. Taking a longer look at the picture I had suspicions. These photographs were taken sometime in the mid to late 1880s, years after Mr.

Jeremiah Folsom was born in New Hampshire in 1817. As a young man he moved to Michigan and in 1840 married Marcia A Hopkins. While in Michigan they had two children, Marcia and Edward. Jeremiah was listed as a glass manufacturer in the 1850 federal census.

So I figured I would do a nice column for our newsletter on the Early Citizens of Council Bluffs. Pull a picture and research our local archives and databases and see what I could find. I started with Henry Allen.