This Cabinet Card appears to feature a father, mother and teenage daughter. Mom is holding a book on her lap and dad is wearing a star on his vest. Is the gentleman a lawman? The badge seems a bit small to be a sheriffs badge. Perhaps a visitor to this site will have a hypothesis or some knowledge about the star. The photographer is Henry E. Buck (1867-?) and his studio was in Pioneer, Ohio. Buck was born in Putnam County, Ohio and worked as a photographer in Pioneer, Ohio in 1891 but by 1896 had settled in McComb, Ohio.
MAN WEARING A STAR POSES WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN PIONEER, OHIO
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Star is likely a Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) emblem, a veteran organization of the day. Many Putnam county men of that era were Civil War veterans, probably 21st Ohio Infantry if from that area. I have a cabinet card of my great grandmother from the same studio and she wears her GAR auxiliary emblem similar to this one. Her father was GAR member from Putnam county.