This photo came to me from Germany, labelled "Onkel Oscar Möckel im Jahr 1886" (Uncle Oscar Möckel in the year 1886), but the photo was taken in Buffalo, New York. What was Uncle Oscar up to in America? I checked the Census lists first and indeed I found one 47-year-old Oscar F. Moeckel in the 1900 Census of Buffalo, Erie, N.Y., born in March 1853 in Germany. He had immigrated to the US in 1882, and according to the same Census, by 1900 he had been married for 14 years. Oscar
