The names are unknown except the bottom row 3rd from right is grandfather Richard L. Peterson. Must have been taken around 1920.

Opheim

 

This place never had quite 100 people in it, yet the rich country around it has furnished considerable business and trade for the railroad. One store, a grain elevator and lumberyard comprise the business interests. The Swedish Methodists have a church society here, and at stated times preaching. The Lutherans have a church organization here. It is a branch of the Andover Swedona Church, from which oint preachers hold services at stated times.

Opheim was first called Edwardsville but when it was given a post office the name had to be changed, as there was already another post office of that name in the state.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Illinois

 

 

 

 

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