William Cubbery Richardson, originally uploaded by ultimatewhit.

If you looked at this photo and thought “wow, that looks a lot like Whit” – well, I think you’re crazy. But truth is, I am in fact related to this fine looking man.

I’d like to introduce you to William Cubbery Richardson, my grandfather’s grandfather on my mother’s side. I don’t know much about William… in fact I know nothing… but it seems to me that he probably chopped a lot of wood. He looks like someone who chopped a lot of wood – don’t you think? I also think he shaved two times a day, and at the end of the day his beard still looked like this. Actually, this photo was taken ten minutes after a shave.

Cubbery – as his friends called him – once wrestled a grizzly bear, then invited it over for dinner where he cooked some fine salmon with some lemon (straight off his farm’s lemon tree, of course), over a fire that was burning wood that he had chopped with his bare hands because the neighbor had borrowed his ax.

Will was also known for collecting suits.