This second edition contains all the pictures of the first edition with added information for our Wisconsin ancestors plus a short biography written by Evelyn telling of her early life. Also added are letters written by Louis Belden during military service in 1898.
The 2013 first edition was published to provide a record of the collection of Belden family pictures and studio portraits with identification where possible. The collection belonged to Mom and eventually ended in my hands.
Evelyn was born in Wisconsin where her ancestors had been early settlers of Racine County. However she spent practically all her life near Roscoe, in Winnebago Co., Illinois,