**NEW VIRTUAL EXHIBIT

1905 to 1916: Family Life, First Years

Written and told by Helen Kavanaugh Tobbe (1905-2002) and transcribed by her youngest child, Kate Tobbe Ptak.

I was born November 20th, 1905, in a small home on 6th Street, Bay City, Michigan. It was further away from my Grandmother Callahan's home than mother wanted to be. We moved to 12^th Street, across from St. James Church and four houses from Grandma's on Monroe Street. In 1908, Dad built 242 on Madison Street, one block over. Dad had built electricity into the house but also included gas lighting because the electric wasn't reliable. By this time Jr. and Margaret were born. Then Mary Louise was born in 1909, but she died six months later.