Family History Project To-Do List

FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT — TO-DO LIST
Generated April 3, 2026
For: barneyfrauenthal.com, walhus.com, family trees, and three biographies
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CRITICAL: ALLY'S CORRECTIONS (from April 3, 2026)
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- [ ] Bernice was Grandpa FRAUENTHAL's sister — NOT Grandpa Walhus's
- [ ] Grandpa Frauenthal had THREE sisters: Bernice, Jean, Lucille
- [ ] Lucille was Jean Aubuchon's mother (Jean was Virginia's cousin)
- [ ] Jean Aubuchon had NO children (fix Cinader section)
- [ ] Bernice married Alec Ebsworth → had Barney and Muriel
- [ ] Remove "Gapen sisters" theory entirely — replace with "Frauenthal sisters"
- [ ] Remove Ally's email from ALL pages (done on main page, check familytree, sources)
- [ ] Need to find: Grandpa Frauenthal's first name and dates
- [ ] Need to ask Ally: confirm relationship between Frauenthal sisters and Max's branch

ANCESTRY DATA TO INCORPORATE
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John M. Walhus & Ingeborg Hendrickson's 7 children:
- [ ] Josefine Walhus (1886-1984) — lived 98 years
- [ ] Martin J. Walhus (1889-1978) — Grandpa, the dentist
- [ ] Nora L. Walhus (1894-?)
- [ ] Bessie Vienna Walhus (1897-1990) — lived 93 years
- [ ] Arnold J. Walhus (1900-1901) — died as infant
- [ ] Inga Caroline Walhus/Jaeschke (1903-1997) — lived 94 years
- [ ] James Arnold "Jimmy" Walhus (1903-1989)

Corrections:
- [ ] Ingeborg Johannesdatter Vellufein lived to 94 (1834-1928) — NOT past 100
- [ ] Mikkel Larsen Dahl — born Dec 27, 1830, Gran parish, Hadeland, Norway
- [ ] Father died when Mikkel was 6, raised by mother
- [ ] Went to America 1851, 3 years in Wisconsin, then Spring Grove
- [ ] Martin J. Walhus died 1978

BARNEYFRAUENTHAL.COM — CONTENT TO ADD
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From research-overflow.md (506 lines):
- [ ] Captain Smith connection: Hermann Clay Frauenthal was friends with "The Millionaire's Captain"
- [ ] This is HOW Henry and Clara ended up on the Titanic
- [ ] Hermann Clay Frauenthal: born 1867, Lehigh (electrical engineering), married Minnie Rothschild
- [ ] JFK dedicated Greers Ferry Dam in Heber Springs, Oct 3, 1963 — 50 days before assassination
- [ ] Ebsworth Park in Kirkwood, MO — Frank Lloyd Wright house named after Barney's parents
- [ ] Barney's autobiography "A World of Possibility" (2012, 191 pages, Hunts Point Publishing)
- [ ] Bucky Bush (George Bush's youngest brother) was Barney's great friend
- [ ] Conway Cotton Oil & Gin Company (1892) — 1,000 bales/day
- [ ] Ida Baridon: Swiss parents, preacher's daughter, visited uncle Asa Robinson (founder of Conway)
- [ ] Helped select the Arkansas state flag
- [ ] Samuel Frauenthal: Bethel College BA 1880, AR Supreme Court Feb 1 1909, Mason/B'nai B'rith/Elks
- [ ] Henry born Wilkes-Barre PA, Lehigh football, analytical chemistry, Bellevue Medical College 1890
- [ ] Hospital opened Nov 4 1906 at 1919 Madison Avenue, Harlem — 3 brownstones, 56 beds
- [ ] By 1914: 48,000 patients/year
- [ ] Henry pioneered color photography in medicine (1910)
- [ ] Henry's death: fell from 7th floor apartment March 14, 1927 (not March 11)
- [ ] Diabetic — amputated his own toes under his own supervision
- [ ] Great-nephew Stephen: fear of amputations, not survivor's guilt
- [ ] Clara spent 16 years in Greenwich sanitarium until 1943
- [ ] Will: ashes scattered from hospital roof on 50th anniversary (Oct 4, 1955) — honored 28 years later
- [ ] Will bequeathed $300-400K to hospital
- [ ] Annie May Stengel dispute: may have been Elmer Zebley Taylor, not Henry
- [ ] Ticket cost £133 13s (~$15,000 today), Cabin D-40
- [ ] 904 Front Street building STILL STANDS — oldest in Conway Commercial Historic District
- [ ] Frauenthal & Schwarz also ran Conway Cotton Oil & Gin Company
- [ ] Spring Park mineral water ads: cured "dyspepsia, headache, biliousness and hundreds of other ailments"
- [ ] M&NA Railroad opened 1908, tourists flocked, 11 rooming houses and hotels
- [ ] Heber Springs founding: 680 acres, 10 shareholders, W.C. Watkins secretary
- [ ] Post office was "Heber" from 1882 while town was "Sugar Loaf" — 28 years of dual names

From Ebsworth oral history (April 12-13, 2017):
- [ ] Barney never graduated — petitioned out 9 hours short, WashU later "graduated" him
- [ ] Father Alec: "grew up in Buckingham Palace" in "the casements — an 800-year-old castle, better word is cell"
- [ ] "Fair play. 50/50. The Golden Rule."
- [ ] Raised Christian Science, became Episcopalian 1991 via Bucky Bush
- [ ] "I was a sprinter on the track team" at Mizzou, "made straight A's"
- [ ] "I was never hungry. I always had clothes. We just didn't have anything else."
- [ ] "I went to the Louvre Museum every weekend for a year"
- [ ] Could lecture on every painting from memory
- [ ] Inspired by Somerset Maugham book about woman who memorized the Louvre
- [ ] "I signed his paycheck, and he signed my passes" — re: NCO Club sergeant major
- [ ] Muriel "lettered in eight sports her first year" at college
- [ ] Class bully story: "I was scared to death of your sister"
- [ ] O'Keeffe was "90 percent blind" when Barney knew her
- [ ] O'Keeffe wedding: Maggie Lopez in horse manure became best man
- [ ] O'Keeffe: "I thought I was the only one wearing a black dress today"
- [ ] Only TWO weddings O'Keeffe attended in her life (her own + Barney's)
- [ ] "Barney knows what he's talking about" — O'Keeffe vs Juan Hamilton
- [ ] Build-A-Bear stock crashed from $40M to $9M — killed chapel funding
- [ ] Had FOUR chapel sites, all failed to NIMBY
- [ ] "God's telling us he doesn't need another chapel"
- [ ] Chop Suey: "I couldn't see paying $200,000" — got 10% off accidentally
- [ ] No cell phone: "I tried all my life to be a renaissance man"
- [ ] "You don't." (on being reached by phone)
- [ ] "I'd take the experience every day" over owning the pictures
- [ ] Bill Gates was his neighbor — "the last great Homer"
- [ ] Charles Buckley: "Buy the 12 greatest... take little Charlie behind the barn and shoot him"
- [ ] Craig McCaw's 1918 mansion — "room for about two pictures"
- [ ] Dan Terra tap-danced as Uncle Sam singing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at museum opening
- [ ] Haven't missed a year in Paris in 62 years
- [ ] Wrote an unpublished guidebook to Paris in 1980

CHAUTAUQUA — CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS
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- [ ] CORRECT LOCATION: New Piasa Chautauqua, Jersey County, near Alton — NOT Mason County/Peoria
- [ ] On the Mississippi River bluffs, not the Illinois River
- [ ] Named after the Piasa Bird — largest Native American painting ever found
- [ ] Founded 1885 by Methodists
- [ ] National Register of Historic Places since 1982
- [ ] William Jennings Bryan spoke there (1901, 1908)
- [ ] Billy Sunday, Gypsy Smith, John Philip Sousa's band
- [ ] Originally called "Babb's Hollow"
- [ ] Swimming pool inaugurated 1957, heated by steam pipes
- [ ] 200+ cottages today, families go back 6 generations
- [ ] Paul's austinspring.com has Chautauqua page with memories
- [ ] Illinois Digital Archives has 9 photos
- [ ] At peak: Chautauqua movement attracted 45 million people nationally
- [ ] Add link to Chautauqua Historical Society (Elsah, IL)

WALHUS.COM — CONTENT TO ADD
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- [ ] Mikkel: born Dec 27 1830, Gran parish, father died age 6
- [ ] Gran parish emigration: 56 people left in 1851 (Mikkel's year)
- [ ] Hadeland Lag heritage society (founded 1910, 500 families)
- [ ] Spring Grove first settler: Torger Tendeland (1852), walked 30 miles from Iowa
- [ ] Found 3 others already there: Hakkon Narveson, Knut Kieland, Fingal Flatin
- [ ] By 1870: 1,135 of 1,200 were Norwegian, mostly from Hallingdal
- [ ] "The region resembles eastern Norway"
- [ ] Norwegian Ridge: 12-15 mile limestone outcropping
- [ ] Church: first congregation 1855, Rev. Koren, Rev. Clausen (directly from Norway)
- [ ] Rev. Reque served 40 years
- [ ] Elisabeth Koren's diary — published primary source
- [ ] Giants of the Earth Heritage Center in Spring Grove
- [ ] John M. Walhus's 7 children with dates
- [ ] Two Ingeborgs — Mikkel's wife AND John's wife

FAMILY TREE — UPDATES NEEDED
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Both familytree.html and familytree-visual.html:
- [ ] Fix Frauenthal sisters (Bernice, Jean, Lucille) — partially done on visual
- [ ] Remove Gapen references
- [ ] Add Grandpa Frauenthal properly (need his first name)
- [ ] Add John M. Walhus's 7 children — done on visual, need on detailed
- [ ] Add Hermann Clay Frauenthal (third brother, friend of Captain Smith)
- [ ] Add Isaac's details (NYU Law, lifelong bachelor, died 1932)
- [ ] Add Barney's 4 marriages properly
- [ ] Add Christiane and Mark Ladd with Chicago house
- [ ] Add Roger Mueller and siblings
- [ ] Add Skylar King
- [ ] Verify all dates match Ancestry data

PHOTOS TO COLLECT (63 links gathered)
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- [ ] Create a proper gallery page on barneyfrauenthal.com/gallery.html
- [ ] Organize by person/topic
- [ ] All links are in research-overflow.md
- [ ] Key photos:
  - Max Frauenthal portrait (Wikipedia)
  - Titanic lifeboats (Library of Congress, 5 images)
  - Crown Odyssey / Norwegian Crown (Wikimedia)
  - Chautauqua 1951 boats (Illinois Digital Archives, 9 images)
  - Piasa Bird mural (multiple sources)
  - Echo sculpture (Library of Congress)
  - Spring Grove historic photos (Giants of the Earth)
  - Frauenthal buildings (Wikipedia, 4 buildings)
  - Choy Kam Man at YMCA 1970s (Vice magazine)
  - Barney Ebsworth at 2015 Opera Ball (Flickr)
  - Ebsworth Park / FLW house (website)
  - Spotsylvania battlefield (Pritzker Museum)
  - Cleveland High School (St. Louis Patina)

SOURCES PAGE — MAINTENANCE
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- [ ] Currently 47KB, 220+ sources on barneyfrauenthal.com/sources.html
- [ ] Add remaining sources from research-overflow.md
- [ ] Organize chronologically within each section
- [ ] Add the oral history as a source with key quotes
- [ ] Add the autobiography as a source
- [ ] Cross-check all links still work (link rot check)

BOOKS TO ORDER
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- [ ] "A World of Possibility" by Barney Ebsworth (AbeBooks, $75-150 signed)
- [ ] "Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement" by Chad Muller
- [ ] "The Jewish Confederates" by Robert N. Rosen
- [ ] "United States Jewry, 1776-1985" by Jacob Rader Marcus
- [ ] "Images of America: Conway" by Ann Newman
- [ ] "108 Insights into Tai Chi Chuan" by Michael Gilman
- [ ] Elisabeth Koren's diary (published memoir of frontier life)

PEOPLE TO CONTACT
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- [ ] Ally Whiteneck — family photos, corrections review (late April)
- [ ] Giants of the Earth Heritage Center — Walhus family records
- [ ] Hadeland Lag — Mikkel Larsen Dahl in Gran parish records
- [ ] Faulkner County Historical Society — Frauenthal store photos
- [ ] Chautauqua Historical Society (Elsah, IL) — family cottage records
- [ ] Smithsonian Archives of American Art — oral history transcript
- [ ] O'Keeffe Museum — Barney Ebsworth Papers collection
- [ ] Cleburne County Historical Society — Heber Springs founding records

THREE BIOGRAPHIES — OUTLINE STATUS
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1. THE FRAUENTHAL BIOGRAPHY
   - Research: 80% complete
   - Key sources: Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Wikipedia, JTA, Titanic Universe, oral history
   - Chapters needed: Bavaria origins, Civil War/Bloody Angle, Conway/Front Street,
     Heber Springs founding, the Frauenthal sisters, the Titanic (Captain Smith connection),
     Henry's hospital and tragic death, Samuel on the Supreme Court,
     Ida Baridon and the Arkansas state flag, the buildings on the National Register,
     JFK at Heber Springs, legacy

2. THE WALHUS BIOGRAPHY
   - Research: 50% complete
   - Key sources: Ancestry data, Giants of the Earth, Hadeland Lag, family recollections
   - Chapters needed: Hadeland/Gran parish, the crossing, Spring Grove settlement,
     Norwegian Ridge, the church, Ingeborg (lived to 94), Dr. Martin (50 years of dentistry),
     Chautauqua summers, the Frauenthal connection, St. Louis,
     Bayless High/track, Paul's journey to Austin, WholeTech/108 websites

3. THE EBSWORTH BIOGRAPHY
   - Research: 90% complete
   - Key sources: Oral history (primary), autobiography, Christie's records, museum archives
   - Chapters needed: Buckingham Palace/casements, cricket in St. Louis,
     Cleveland High/track (mentoring Paul), Mizzou/WashU (never graduated),
     the Army/France/NCO Club, meeting Martine on NYE 1956, the Louvre every weekend,
     INTRAV/Concorde, Royal Cruise Line/ships, Clipper, Build-A-Bear,
     O'Keeffe friendship, the wedding at Abiquiu, the art collection philosophy,
     the Tadao Ando chapel that never was, the Hunts Point house (sold to Bezos),
     Christiane and the Christie's decision, the $323M auction,
     Ebsworth Park, Bucky Bush, legacy

FILES ON DISK
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- research-overflow.md — 506 lines of unincorporated research
- ebsworth-oral-history-extracts.md — key quotes from Smithsonian interview
- familytree-visual.html — visual tree (partially updated)
- familytree.html — detailed tree on wholetech.com
- sources-barney.html — sources template (local copy)
- sources-walhus.html — sources template (local copy)
- build-family.py — main build script for walhus.com, barneyfrauenthal.com, sheyroth.com
- family_corrections_ally.md — saved in Claude memory
- walhus_ancestry_data.md — saved in Claude memory

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END OF FAMILY PROJECT TO-DO LIST
Total items: ~200+
Generated by Claude Code, April 3, 2026