Taken August 19th, 1877.
Marcellus Hall Zoeth J.Hamilton Edgar S.Farmer Shadrach B.Gould.
The names were in differing handwritings.

Evidently each man had signed the photograph.
Mary-'Gusta scrutinized the photograph again.

Then, with it in her hand, she descended to the kitchen.

Isaiah was sitting in a chair by the stove reading a newspaper.
"Mr.Chase," said Mary-'Gusta, "who was Edgar S.Farmer ?" If that kitchen chair had been the never-to-be-forgotten piece of furniture with the music box beneath it and that box had started to play, Isaiah could not have risen more promptly.

He literally jumped to his feet and the paper flew from his hands.