H L King, May 10th 1885
Here is an 1885 picture of a graduating lawyer. Haven’t tried looking up the biographical details for him, but no doubt identification would be easy with all the details provided on the back of the photograph. The inscription reads:
Compliments of H L King, Cribbs, Pa, Westm’d Co, U of M “Law” Class ‘85, Ann Arbor, May 10th, ‘85.
Since it was taken in Ann Arbor (the front has an imprint from photographers Lewis & Gibson, Ann Arbor, Mich.) we know the U of M refers to the University of Michigan. Mr King is a resident of Cribbs Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland county. There is no Cribbs Pennsylvania listed in modern atlases, but there was a large Cribbs family who settled very early in Hempfield township, near the center of Westmoreland county, near modern-day Greensburg.
