{"id":3453,"date":"2013-06-03T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2013-06-03T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:54:42","slug":"samuel-askew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/samuel-askew\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Askew, horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got an email today from Rebecca Komppa, a newspaper columnist and local historian in the Wadena county area of Minnesota. I had helped Rebecca with an article she wrote on the Arlington Hotel<\/a>, a hotel that my 3rd-great-grandfather Joseph Askew built in Menahga, MN, in 1891. This morning, she got an email from a man named John who’s a great-grandson of Joseph Askew, asking for my contact details.<\/p>\n

It turns out that he’s my second cousin, twice removed\u2014in other words, he’s my grandmother Harriet’s second cousin. Joseph Askew had six sons, but only three lived past childhood: William Henry Askew (1864\u20131927), Wilfred Lawson Askew (1873\u20131953), and Samuel “Sam” Clarence Askew (1876\u20131954).\u00a0John told me that Sam Askew, Joseph’s youngest surviving son, was his grandfather.<\/p>\n

For today’s post, I want to present a couple of interesting photos I’ve scanned of Sam Askew. One is housed at the Wadena County Historical Society<\/a>, and the other is in the possession of my great-uncle Gordy Askew.<\/p>\n

According to Gordy, Sam Askew was a skilled horseman. The two photos below show two examples of his involvement with horses, one towards the beginning of his adult life, and other towards the end of his life:<\/p>\n