
1886 family portrait in Elyria, Ohio. Back row, standing, left to right: Ethyl (10), John (8), Marion (5), Mary Crozier Metcalf (Wilder's wife), Wilder (3), Antoinette (12), and Charles (4). Front row, left to right: Henry (11), Anna (7), Mayo (14), ISM, Ralph (13, on ISM's lap), Eli (15), Harriet Howes Metcalf, Harlan (9), and Ike (16, on Harlan's lap). Ike is my grandfather. (The numbers refer to birth order. Two children [Nelson and Keyes] haven't been born yet.)