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Metadata
Title |
Stow Family Added Photograph Collection |
Collection |
Stow Family Added Photograph Collection |
Catalog Number |
021PC24 |
Date |
ca. 1850s-1880s |
Location |
Indiana / Switzerland County |
Description |
The collection includes mid-to-late nineteenth century photographs documenting the family of Uzziel and Catharine Stow of Switzerland County, Indiana, and their extended relations. Included are cased daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, a carte de visite (CDV) album, and loose photographs. Uzziel Stow (1809-1890) and Catharine Manser Stow (1811-1899) shared New England ancestral origins, as well as similar experiences migrating from western New York to southeastern Indiana as children in the late 1810s. Independently, their parents settled in Cotton Township, Switzerland County, Indiana in the early 1820s, and there Uzziel and Catharine ultimately met. They were married in 1834, and for the remainder of their lives resided at "Stowtown," south of East Enterprise, Indiana. They had four children: Hiram S. Stow (1835-1853), Loring B. Stow (1838-1860), Viola A. Stow Dufour (1841-1912), and Baron P. Stow (1847-1864). Tragically, the three sons of the family all died young. The Stows were Methodists and farmers who by the 1850s were entering upon prosperity, due in part to the sheer industriousness of Uzziel and his pursuit of "improvement" in agricultural practice and technology. The family home was situated in the Ohio Valley, along one of the major inland transportation and migration routes of the day. More information about the individuals represented in this photograph collection can be found in the person reports in the Stow family papers [Mss. A S891 / fls. 3-6]. Box 1 Contains cased images of Catharine Manser Stow [021PC24.01-.02, .05]; Uzziel Stow [021PC24.03-.04]; Hiram S. Stow [021PC24.06]; and Loring B. Stow [021PC24.07] Folder 1: Notes of donor Ellen Stepleton for the cased images and CDV album Folder 2: Photographs of Stow family members and home [021PC24.21-27] Includes photographs of James Howard Stow [021PC24.21] and Minerva McCauley Stow [021PC24.22]; Eleanor Bliss Melick, Minerva McCauley Stow, and Viola Stow Dufour [021PC24.23]; Loring Stow, enlargement from daguerreotype [021PC24.24]; farmstead of Uzziel and Catharine Stow, ca. late 1880s [021PC24.25-.26]; and the farmstead ca. late 1860s [021PC24.27] Folder 3: CDVs of Stow family extended relations and unknown person [021PC24.28-.39] Includes CDVs of Julia C. Stow Bledsoe [021PC24.28]; Shelomith Stow [021PC24.29]; Mary Ann Quincy Stow; Shelomith's wife [021PC24.30]; Benjamin M. Bledsoe [021PC24.31-.35]; Elizabeth "Bettie" Bledsoe Robinson; sister of Lemuel Bledsoe [021PC24.36]; Edward Manser; Catherine Manser Stowe's nephew [021PC24.37]; Clare and Lelia C. Dufour [021PC24.38]; and an unidentified individual, possibly Josiah "Si" Thompson [021PC24.39]. Photographers include Gorgas and Mulvey (Madison, Ind.), Thorne's National Gallery (Madison, Ind.), J. P. Ball's Photographic Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio), William H. Ruggles (Vevay, Ind.), Hoag and Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio), Keenan's Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio), J.E. Walton (Vevay, Ind.), Ball and Thomas Photographic Art Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio). Box 2 Contains cased images of Viola A. Stow before and after her marriage to Francis "Frank" R. Dufour (1841-1912) [021PC24.08-.12]; Baron P. Stow (1847-1864) [021PC24.13]; Uzziel and Catharine's niece Julia Stow (1843-1865) [021PC24.15]; Viola's husband Frank Dufour [021PC24.14]; and Frank's sister Eleanor "Ella" Dufour (1838-1900) [021PC24.16-.17]. Box 3 Contains cased images of twins Clara and Leila Dufour (b. 1867), daughters of Viola and Frank Dufour [021PC24.18]; and an unidentified young man [021PC24.19]. CDV album, ca. 1850s-early 1880s [021PC24.20] Includes photographs of Baron's pony Mink; William Manser; Lyman Manser; Joseph Malin and Harriet Manser Seymour Malin; Baron P. Stow; Hiram S. Stow; Loring B. Stow; Julia C. Stow Bledsoe; Lemuel Bledsoe; Olive Manser Winchester; Rev. George Washington Winchester; Julia Dufour; Clara and Leila Dufour; Edward Manser; Fannie E. Manser; Loring S. Dufour; Benjamin Bledsoe; Frank Bledsoe; Alice Dean; Minerva McCauley Stow; Livia Jane Stow Branham; Argus Dean; Eleanor "Ella" Dufour; Viola Stow Dufour; "Mrs. Hall" and "Mr. Silas Hall"; George Hall; Robert Quincy; Arthur Loring Bonham; Rev. William Burton; Harriet "Hattie" Wells; Emma Wells; Albert H. Dean; Arthur Perry Twineham; Mabel E. Dean; Horace "Harry" M. Stow; Loring S. Stow; Edward Rebeka Manser; and Uzziel Hayward Stow. Images digitized include: 021PC24_01: Catharine Manser Stow, ca. early 1850s 021PC24_02: Catharine Manser Stow, ca. early 1850s 021PC24_03: Uzziel Stow, ca. early 1850s 021PC24_04: Uzziel Stow, ca. 1860 021PC24_05: Catharine Manser Stow, ca. 1860 021PC24_06: Hiram S. Stow, ca. 1852-1853 021PC24_07: Loring B. Stow, ca. 1859 021PC24_08: Viola A. Stow, ca. 1855 021PC24_09: Viola A. Stow, ca. 1857 021PC24_13: Baron P. Stow, ca. 1851 |
Search Terms |
Families Indiana - Switzerland County |