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Members
This archive contains photographs of Middle Bass Club members enjoying themselves at the Middle Bass Club. We attempted to show the photographs in chronological order in one series while presenting portraits of individuals members in an alphabetical order. This “original post” of the archive is dated: July 2021. Subsequent additions are dated September 2021. Future dates of additions to this archive will be noted here so viewers can check for new content. If you can identify any people in the photographs/videos or if you have photographs to add, please contact Marie Demer Rader at
Middle Bass Club: Members arriving at the Middle Bass Club
Middle Bass Club Members arriving at Rehberg Dock
Middle Bass Club: Members outside the Club House
Middle Bass Club: Nurse Maids with children playing on the shore of Lake Erie.
Middle Bass Club Boat Dock.
Middle Bass Club: Governor Bushnell's family. The original club house "Club Cottage" is behind the family to the left. The photo was taken from the Chapel.
Middle Bass Club. Fishing.
Middle Bass Club: Member Jay Secor and children in a toy carriage in front of the Middle Bass Club House. Toledo Public Library.
Middle Bass Club: Kids at the Boat House.
Rehberg Hall. Kelsey and Cooke families.
Middle Bass Club: Members enjoying the dock. Looking east from the Boat Dock.
Middle Bass Club. Member biking with a view of the Middle Bass Club "Park" in the background.
Middle Bass Club: Members on the Middle Bass Club dock, looking east down Lake Avenue.
Middle Bass Club. Members sailing in Lake Erie.
Middle Bass Club: Leroy Brooks boat coming to the Club dock, circa 1908.
Middle Bass Club: Members at the Middle Bass Club dock, circa 1912.
Middle Bass Club: Members outside Boat House, circa 1912. Looking east from the Club House grounds.
Middle Bass Club. Members swimming at the Club Dock. Circa 1912.
Middle Bass Club: Members walking out on the Middle Bass Club dock. Circa 1914.
Rehberg Hall, circa 1914. Middle Bass Club members on the grounds at Rehberg Hall watching a tennis match.
Rehberg Hall: Tennis.
Rehberg Hall, circa 1914. Middle Bass Club members on the balcony watching a tennis match.
Rehberg Hall. Middle Bass Club Members watching tennis.
Middle Bass Club. Members walking east on Lake Avenue, circa 1915.
Middle Bass Club: Members enjoying the dock. Circa 1915.
Middle Bass Club Members on the W.T. Roper, circa 1915. Isaac Kinsey Jr.?
Middle Bass Club: Members playing croquet, circa 1915.
Middle Bass Club Members, circa 1915. Carolyn Walbridge Kinsey Bentley is woman on far right.
Middle Bass Club: Members swimming at the Middle Bass Club dock.
Middle Bass Club Members, July 8, 1916.
Middle Bass Club. Members enjoying the lake, circa 1917.
Middle Bass Club, circa 1919. Club Member Barber? With Henry Rehberg.
Henry Rehberg and unidentified Middle Bass Club member. Circa 1919.
Middle Bass Club. Phyllis Kinsey on the Club dock. Circa 1920s.
Middle Bass Club. Harold Norton & Barbara Strater on the dock, looking toward the west.
Family portrait: William K Terry Sr., Helen Wright Suydam Terry, Margaret Terry (left), Mary Ann Terry (right) and William K. Terry Jr. Circa 1920. The family owned a cottage on Grove Avenue. William K Terry took a video at the Middle Bass Club in 1933 which is included on this website. Helen's brother Horace Wright Suydam took a video at the Middle Bass Club in 1928 which is included on this website. Source: Carroll Terry
Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) in a baby carriage on the Middle Bass Club House lawn. Circa 1921. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) outside the family's cottage in the Middle Bass Club on Grape Avenue. Circa 1922. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) on the Middle Bass Club dock. Circa 1923. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
VIDEO 1
The first video from the Terry/Suydam family was taken around 1924. This video shows the Middle Bass Club dock and the Terry, Suydam, Norton, Beckwith, McAbee, Berdan, Mennell families. Source: Carroll Terry, Lisa Fine Collection
Brothers Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) and Bigelow (Big) Kinsey at the ferry dock on Middle Bass Island. Circa 1924. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Brothers Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) and Bigelow (Big) outside the family's cottage on Grape Avenue at the Middle Bass Club. Circa 1925. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Brothers Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) and Bigelow (Big) outside the family's cottage at the Middle Bass Club. Circa 1925. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Middle Bass Club Dock. Kids jumping in Lake Erie.
Middle Bass Club: Harold Norton and Phyllis Kinsey on the walkway of the Kinsey cottage. Looking west at the Berdan cottage. 1926
Brothers Isaac Kinsey III (Pete) and Bigelow (Big) at "Sandy Beach" on the east side of Middle Bass Island. Circa 1927. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
VIDEO 2
Film box (with description) used for mailing the film for developing (video 2)
The second video from the Terry/Suydam family was sent by Horace Wright Suydam, 2247 Collingswood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio to Eastman Kodak Co., 1727 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Ill. The date on the film box is Dec 1928 and the Emulsion Number is 41225. This video shows Phelps Berdan sitting in a rocking chair on the Club House lawn, Phyllis Kinsey swimming at the Middle Bass Club dock, swimming at the Middle Bass Club dock, . Families shown in the video include: McAbe, Beckwith, Brooks, Mennel, Hixon, Suydam, Terry. The video also highlights loading Miller's Boat. Source: Carroll Terry, Lisa Fine Collection.
Middle Bass Club: Kids outside the Club House, circa 1930.
Middle Bass Club: Kids outside the Club House, circa 1930.
Middle Bass Club: Kids outside the Club House, circa 1930s.
VIDEO 3
Film box (with description) used for mailing the film for developing (video 3)
The third video from the Terry/Suydam family was sent by William K Terry Sr., Maumee, Ohio to Eastman Kodak Co, 1727 Indiana Ave, Chicago Ill. The date on the film box is June 1933 and the Emulsion Number is 5241 23A. This video shows a carnival and people on the Middle Bass Club dock to welcome LeRoy Brooks. Families included are: Terry, Suydam, Brooks, Berdan, McAbee, Mennell, Norton. Source: Carroll Terry, Lisa Fine Collection
Shirley Hixon and Margaret (Maggie) Kinsey on Middle Bass Club wall. Circa 1933. Obtained from Phyllis Bigelow Kinsey Bennett's scrapbook. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Member Portraits
William White Alcorn. Middle Bass Club member 1877. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
John Park Alexander Sr. Middle Bass Club member from 1890 to 1896. Akron, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
William Edward Baker. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898.
Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Volume II. Harvey Scribner.
Epaphras Lord Barber. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898 with his Estate retaining membership until 1907.
Source: History of Ohio. The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius O. Randall and Daniel J. Ryan, Volume 6 - Biographical. The Century History Company, New York, 1915.
Ohio C. Barber. Middle Bass Club member 1888 to 1902.
Source: History of Ohio. The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius O. Randall and Daniel J. Ryan, Volume 6 - Biographical. The Century History Company, New York, 1915.
Calvin Barker. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1888.
Source: History of NorthWest Ohio by Nevin O Winter, LITT D, Volume III. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1917
Eugene J. Barney. Middle Bass Club member 1895 to 1902.
Source: History of Ohio. The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius O. Randall and Daniel J. Ryan, Volume 6 - Biographical. The Century History Company, New York, 1915.
Elwood Bateman. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Leander Solomon Baumgardner. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
John Berdan II. Middle Bass Club member from 1881 to 1902. Found in a Grove Avenue Middle Bass Club cottage attic. Source: Lisa Fine
Peter Frederick Berdan. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881 with Mrs. Berdan being a member until 1907.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Dr. Symmes Henry Bergen. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881 with Mrs. Bergen being a member until 1902 and the estate until 1904.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Henry Waite Bigelow. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Oliver S. Bond. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Oscar Alonso Bostwick. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Justice H. Bowman. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1888 and 1902 to 1904. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Henry Clay Breckenridge. Middle Bass Club member in 1877. Toledo, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Calvin Bronson. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Walter Folger Brown. Middle Bass Club member 1902 to 1907. He married Katherine Hafer Sheldon on September 10, 1903.
They were married by Charles H. Tucker, rector St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Put in Bay, Ohio. Source: Wikipedia & Ancestry research
Clarence Elisha Burke. Middle Bass Club member 1890 to 1907.
Jacob Fillmore Burket. Middle Bass Club member from 1888 to 1898. Findlay, Ohio. Source: Supreme Court of Ohio, Biographies and Wikipedia
Asa A. Bushnell. Middle Bass Club member 1888 to 1898. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Miles D. Carrington. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1888.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
John Randolph Coffroth. Middle Bass Club member from 1888 to 1896. Lafayette, Indiana. Source: Find A Grave
Jasper Peck Collins. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898. Source: Find A Grave
Abram Walter Colton. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Carlos "Carl" Colton. Middle Bass Club member 1877. Toledo, Ohio. Source: Ancestry
Hamilton Daughaday. Middle Bass Club member from 1890 to 1902. St. Louis, Missouri. Source: Ancestry
Daniel Fowler DeWolf. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890. Built a cottage in 1881 on Grove Avenue. Source: Case Western Reserve University Archives
John Hardy Doyle. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1915.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Frederick K. Eaton. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Geoge Emerson. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881 with Mrs. Emerson a member until 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Michael J. Enright. Middle Bass Club member 1877.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Joseph B. Foraker. Middle Bass Club member 1888 to 1915. Source: Wikipedia
Edward Ford. Middle Bass Club member 1902 to 1915.
Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, Harvey Scribner, 1910.
General John Wallace Fuller. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890 with Mrs. Fuller being a member until 1898. Source: ironbrigader.com
James Norris Gamble. Middle Bass Club member from 1888 to 1907. Cincinnati, Ohio. Source: Find a Grave
Dr. Gustavus A. Gessner. Middle Bass Club member from 1881 to 1890. Fremont, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Joel M. Gloyd. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1896. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
William Alonso Gosline. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
Volentine Whitman Granger. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1896.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888. 
Wilson W. Griffith. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
John Kent Hamilton. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
William Hardee. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1907. Source: Heritage Pursuit
Charles William Harkness. Middle Bass Club member 1890 to 1907. Source: Find A Grave
Daniel M. Harkness. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1888. Source: Wikipedia
Edith Hale Harkness. Her brother is MBC member Willis B. Hale and her husband is MBC member William Lamon Harkness. Source: Find A Grave
George Washington Hart. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1888.
Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, Harvey Scribner, 1910.
George R. Haynes. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1888.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Charles Melville Hays. Middle Bass Club member from 1895 to 1907. Source: Find A Grave
Orlando J. Hodge. Middle Bass Club member 1890 to 1902. Source: Wikipedia
Elijah Pelton Jones. Middle Bass Club member from 1877 to 1907. Findlay, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
John Paul Jones. Middle Bass Club member from 1877 to 1881. Toledo, Ohio. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
J. Warren Keifer. Middle Bass Club member 1895 to 1907. Source: Wikipedia
Aaron Lufkin Kelsey. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Valentine Hicks Ketcham Sr. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881 with Mrs. Ketcham being a member until 1902.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Isaac Kinsey Sr. Middle Bass Club member 1915. Source: Maggie Kinsey Wood
Jacob Adams Kohler. Middle Bass Club member from 1888 to 1898. Akron, Ohio. Source: Wikipedia
Edward B. Lanman. Middle Bass Club member from 1896 to 1902. Columbus, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Henry A. Lanman. Middle Bass Club member from 1895 to 1902. Columbus, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Ruben C. Lemmon. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
John Lloyd Uri. Middle Bass Club guest. He appears in a photograph with "Ex-President" Grover Cleveland at LeRoy Brook's cottage in 1889
Robinson Locke. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1907. Source: Lisa Fine Personal Collection
Charles Leverett Luce. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1881 with Mrs. Luce a member until 1895.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Dr. Samuel S. Lungren. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Lawrence Maxwell Jr. Middle Bass Club member from 1895 to 1898. Cincinnati, Ohio. Source: Wikipedia
John Proudy McCune. Middle Bass Club member from 1895 to 1907. He built a cottage on Grape Avenue in 1893.
Source: Tim Donahue, Secretary Goodale Masonic Lodge 372
William McMillan. Middle Bass Club member from 1881 to 1890. St. Louis, Missouri. Source: Find A Grave
William Bromwell Melish. Middle Bass Club member from 1890 to 1907. Cincinnati, Ohio. Source: knightstemplar.org
Irwin I. Millard. Middle Bass Club member 1877.
Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, Harvey Scribner, 1910.
Constantine Sobieski Parker. Middle Bass Club member 1888. Source: Find A Grave
Welcome Otis Parker. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1898. Source: Find A Grave
Francis Jefferson Patterson. Middle Bass Club member from 1896 to 1907 (Estate). Dayton, Ohio. Source: NCR Retrospective
George Eltweed Pomeroy. Middle Bass Club member 1888 to 1907. Source: Heritage Pursuit
"Count" William Rehberg. Middle Bass Club honorary member and owner of Rehberg Hall located next to the Middle Bass Club.
He and his wife Louise sold land to Middle Bass Club members to build cottages. Source: Heritage Pursuit
Dr. John Birchard Rice. Middle Bass Club member from 1881 to 1890. Fremont, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Charles Harvey Scribner. Middle Bass Club member from 1895 to 1904. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express
John Dudley Sears. Middle Bass Club member from 1881 to 1896. Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Denison Billings Smith. Middle Bass Club member 1881.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Benjamin Abbott Stevens. Middle Bass Club member 1881 to 1904. Source: Heritage Pursuit
Henry Stuart Swayne. Middle Bass Club member 1877. Source: Find A Grave
Noah Haines Swayne Jr. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1904. Source: Find A Grave
General Wager Swayne. Middle Bass Club member 1877. Source: Encyclopedia of Alabama (left) Source: Wikipedia (right)
Benjamin Charles Taber. Middle Bass Club member from 1890 to 1898. Norwalk, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave
Helen Suydam Terry. Middle Bass Club member who purchased a cottage on Grove Avenue October 1925. Source: Carroll Terry
William K Terry. Middle Bass Club member who purchased a cottage on Grove Avenue October 1925. Source: Carroll Terry
Henry Tracy. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1890. Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, Harvey Scribner, 1910.
Silas Cornell Walbridge. Middle Bass Club member 1904 to 1915. Source: Lisa Fine (Found in a Grove Avenue Middle Bass Club cottage attic)
Emma DeWolf Walker. Daughter of Middle Bass Club member Daniel Fowler DeWolf. Source: Ancestry
Minot I. Wilcox. Middle Bass Club member 1877 to 1888.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Charles Granville Wilson. Middle Bass Club member 1888. Source: Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo, Harvey Scribner, 1910.
Dr. Amos Woodward. Middle Bass Club member from 1888 to 1898. Bellevue, Ohio. Source: Ohio Genealogy Express - Huron County, Ohio - Biographies.
George Worts. Middle Bass Club member 1877.
Source: History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County Ohio. Clark Waggoner, Editor; Munsell & Company, Publisher, 1888.
Reginald Heber Wright. Middle Bass Club member from 1888-1898. Akron, Ohio. Source: Find A Grave