Neil

I came across an old Freemasons book entitled "Morals and Dogma". It is signed by about 30 individuals. Among them Al Goldstein and Elmer C. Stewart. -Neil

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elmer lived down the street from me at blue lake outside of churubusco indiana, as a child i used to watch him paint, sit on his boathouse out back and swing , also enjoyed the various phonograph players, the ones with the round cylinders, one with the high round tin records, i think had holes in them, i used to sit down and eat with him once in a while, he usually had apples and such, my sister and i would go down there also, sure do miss hom!

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i am interested in elmers paintings as a grade schooler i lived down the road about four or five houses from elmer , who lived across the street from llewewens, i loved to go watch him paint, also sit on the boathouse and swing or just sit and relax and maybe fish off the pier below. he had various old types of phonographs, i wish i would have had the money as a child to buy everything when it was sold, i didnt think to ask my grandad hershey (>D>) if i could buy some things, my mother and stepdad jim bought a winter scene with trees where you could see two dee had fought and left, it was stolen, but i know where it is! me and my sister used to go watch and visit him and he would offer us fruit he was eating oranges, etc. once i was walking from the boathousee thru his fenced yard to visit him, and encountered a dog who was foaming at the mouth i was scared but kept my cool and finished walking slowly thru the yard, i cant remember if elmer was home ar not , but i shut and locked the gated so it wouldnt get out and bite some one, then i let someone know i dont know if it had rabies or ate a plant or licked a frog or something that made it foam at the mouth! eler used to drive this little old black car when he went for groceries. he always welcomed my sister and I , and was very nice and patient with us. he had a lump on his head, he wasnt real tall when he sat in the seat, someone said he was married once , there was a wreck and his wife was killed, but i dont know if that was true or not. sure do miss him we so enjoyed going and visiting him he had these huge rooms full of paintings on the wall, it smelled like oil paints when you went in, i remember.

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My father was the store manager in Goshen IN for Montgomery Wards. A man who worked for him named Larry Gaffer was originally from Ft. Wayne IN. He was a 'sunday painter' as well. When he lived there he worked for a church painting company. He worked with and be-friended Elmer C. Stewart. After Larry moved to Goshen he used to visit Elmer on Blue Lake to learn techniques from him. Larry introduced my parents to Elmer. who purchased through the years 4 paintings from Elmer. Elmer did not like to sell his paintings unless he could see that someone really liked a particular one.
One of mine is a still life of roses, quite nice. The largest is of Pocachantas, which was my mother's favorite. Mine is a study of a boy, who with his cat are looking at a mouse in a cage.