CDV Ink Writing Help

Hello All!

Hope you had a lovely New Years!

Was wondering if I could get some help with this writing!

Any Opinions would be greatly appreciated!

Warmest Regards,
Scantic

 

For Miss Holcomb
with kind regards
Atkisshon H Tyng Jr.

Sept 23rd /63 (which I assume is 1863)

Not 100% sure on his first name but that's what it seems to be.

 

Atkisshon H Tyng Jr. That's a heck of a name!

 

And Thank You!!

 

I agree with the above.
Handsome fellow.

 

I could have bought "Atkinson" or similar, but that way of writing 2 s's together so it looks like fs is exactly the same as the double s in Miss.

 

Good tactic there, Abuela! I'm gonna remember it.

 

Brain storm! What if his first name is Stephen and the p is written so loosely that it looks like fs?

 

Oh, wow. YES, I think so!

 

Stephen H Tyng Jr. from New York City appears in the Columbia College, College of Physicians and Surgeons 1863 yearbook!

 

Abuela kills it!

 

"Tyng's fourth son, also named Stephen Higginson Tyng, was an Episcopal clergyman and founded in 1874 the now demolished Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, commonly referred to as Dr. Tyng's Church; it was located on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 42nd Street, "just a block from Grand Central Station." Tyng used the same architect as his father had (Leopold Eidlitz) for a High Victorian hybrid design of the German Romanesque. He was described as the "hardworking churchman, the younger Stephen H. Tyng, who organized it in 1874."[6] In 1895 the parish merged with St. James's Episcopal Church, and Holy Trinity was deconsecrated, sold and demolished"

 

Maybe an early photo of this guy?

 

Probably. His father was an Episcopal minister. Jr. was born 1839 in Philadelphia, but was studying medicine at Columbia in 1863. There's a family tree outlining all of this on Ancestry and I was just comparing a different photo of him (likely at a slightly younger age) to yours.

 

Here's his Find A Grave entry with lots more info.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84937695&ref=acom

 

Thank You!! Seriously really appreciate it! I'm absolutely dreadful at reading old hand writing!

 

Could you possibly help me with one more?

 

Rev. Dr. G. L Coit?

 

Haha I was thinking Rev. Dr. G. L. Coin?

 

That's a "t", baby!

Edit - I know of several folks who make their ts like that, yep.