Thursday, December 15, 2016

19th Century Photograph Album of Ohio Families: Reed, Frasher, Popham, Kuntz, etc.


Note of March 2019: A reader has provided additional information on Thomas Popham and Lydia (Britton) Popham; see their photographs below - the additional information appears in bold.

Nineteenth century photograph album containing cabinet photographs, cartes de visite and tintypes by mostly Ohio studios, with others from Kansas and Pennsylvania.


The predominant surname is Reed from Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Nevada,  Ohio; and Wooster, Ohio.

One caveat:  in one case, the name written on the page did not match up with the name written on the back of the photograph; hopefully that was an anomaly.

The surnames mentioned:

?? [30]GGrice
BBarnesKKuntz [3]
CCainMMcClellan [2]
ColemanPPopham [3]
DD ?RReed ]14]
FFrasher [4]SSnyder

An alphabetical list of people identified in the photographs - some are in more than one - appears at the end of this post.  

Below, four children of S. D. Reed, presumably Squire D. Reed:


Below, Mrs. William Frasher [her name is written faintly at the bottom of the album page].  Could she have been Mary C. (Butcher) Frasher, second wife of William Harrison Frasher?


Below,  facing pages with the cabinet photographs of Thomas Popham and Lydia (Britton) Popham, taken at the Philip Edward Chillman studio of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  They were both natives of Ohio who moved to Philadelphia.  A reader has noted: "Thomas was a doctor and had a patent for a asthmatic medicine called Popham's Asthma Specific."  To see images of a box of the medicine:  https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/pophams-asthma-specific-medicine-435270532

The reader also noted that Thomas and Lydia had a daughter Mary, who died in infancy.  Thomas married again in 1900, to Margaret A. Johnson.





If you have information on any of the people identified above or in the list below, please leave a comment or contact me directly.
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified girl; by the Burkholder studio of Mount Vernon, Ohio.  Identical to a photograph of a girl identified as Cleo McClellan
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified woman; no studio imprint.
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified girl; by the B. W. Drake studio of Butler, Ohio
  • Page has the identification of Squire Fletcher Family but the pocket is empty.  I wonder if Squire was Squire D. Reed.
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified young child; no studio imprint.
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified young woman; no studio imprint
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified boy; no studio imprint
  • Bud N.; cabinet photograph by the Osborne studio of 56 South Market Street, Wooster, Ohio
  • Theodore; Bernard; Mary; cabinet photograph by the Rol. Davis studio of Douglass, Kansas
  • CDV of an unidentified child; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified man; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified woman; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified young man; by the G. S. Carey studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
  • Small photograph of an unidentified child; no studio imprint
  •  Small photograph of an unidentified child; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified young man; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified girl or young woman; no studio imprint
  • CDV of an unidentified young man; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified woman; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified woman; no studio imprint
  • CDV of an unidentified young man; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified young woman; no studio imprint
  • Tintype of an unidentified young woman; no studio imprint
  • CDV of an unidentified man; by the C. D. Walker studio of Bloomville, Ohio
  • CDV of an unidentified boy; no studio imprint
  • Small candid photograph of woman in a sunhat; no studio imprint
  • CDV of an unidentified young man; no studio imprint
  •  Photograph of a young woman; no studio imprint
  • Photograph of an unidentified woman; no studio imprint.  She's wearing a fedora type hat with a feather
  • Tintype of an unidentified young man
B
  • Nan Barnes; cabinet photograph by the Burkholder studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
C
  • Aunt Dianna Cain; cabinet photograph by the Burkholder studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  Presumably Dianna S. (Arnold) Cain, wife of James Britton Cain
  • Mr. and Mrs. Charley Coleman; cabinet photograph by the Ward studio of Mount Vernon, Ohio
D
  • Mark D, with ? Reed; tintype with no studio imprint
F
  • Mrs. William Frasher; cabinet photograph by the Miller studio of Mount Vernon, Ohio.  Could she have been Mary C. (Butcher) Frasher (1838-1931), second wife of William Harrison Frasher (1812-1897)?
  • A. J. Frasher; cabinet photograph by the Wark studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  His photograph faces that of Flora Reed, taken at the Ward studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  They were Andrew Jackson Frasher and his future wife Flora Mae Reed.
  • L. C. Frasher or L. C. Trasher; CDV, no studio imprint.  Perhaps Lewis Calvin Frasher
  • A. J. Frasher; tintype; no studio imprint.  Presumably Andrew Jackson Frasher, who married Flora Mae Reed - also shown in this album.
G
  • Ella Grice; cabinet photograph by the Star & Crescent Art Gallery at 137 South Main Street, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
K
  • Cecila S. Kuntz - not sure of surname.  The page contains identification for Cecilia S. K? but the cabinet photograph is of a woman identified on the reverse as Flora Reed.  No studio imprint
  • Mary Kuntz, with Mona Kuntz; no studio imprint
  • Mona Kuntz, with Mary Kuntz; no studio imprint
M
  • Cleo McLellan; cabinet photograph of young Cleo by the Burkholder studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
  • Cleo McClellan; sadly, the pocket is empty
P
  • Thomas Popham; cabinet photograph by the Philip Edward Chillman studio of 914 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  His photograph is faced by the cabinet photograph of Lydia Popham, also by the Chillman studio.  I believe they were Thomas Popham (1822-1902) and Lydia (Britton) Popham (1826-1895), Ohio natives who moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Lydia Popham; cabinet photograph by the Philip Edward Chillman studio of 914 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Her photograph is faced by the cabinet photograph of Thomas Popham, also by the Chillman studio.  I believe they were Lydia (Britton) Popham (1826-1895) and Thomas Popham (1822-1902), Ohio natives who moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Cabinet photograph of an unidentified man; by the Philip Edward Chillman studio of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  From another photograph by the Chillman studio, I believe the man is Thomas Popham.
R
  • Four children of S. D. Reed; cabinet photograph with no studio imprint; presumably Squire D. Reed
  • J. R. Reed, Jr.; cabinet photograph with no studio imprint
  • Flora Reed; cabinet photograph by the Ward studio of Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  Her photograph faces that of A. J. Frasher, also by the Ward studio.  They were Flora Mae Reed and her future husband Andrew Jackson Frasher.
  • Flora Reed.  The page contains identification for Cecilia S. K? but the cabinet photograph is of a woman identified on the reverse as Flora Reed, who was presumably Flora Mae Reed (1868-1937), younger sister of Lewis Britton Reed and future wife of Andrew Jackson Frasher.  No studio imprint.
  • Mrs. Bell Reed; no studio imprint
  • L. B. Reed' cabinet photograph by the Dunn studio of Nevada, Ohio; presumably Lewis Britton Reed (1867-1925)
  • L. B. Reed and Family; "Taken out doors, not good.  Will do to laugh at".  No studio imprint.  Presumably the family of Lewis Britton Reed
  • Lulu Reed; photograph by the Dunn studio of Main Street, Nevada, Ohio.  Lulu Beatrice Reed, daughter of Lewis Britton Reed and Nellie (Gower) Reed
  • L. B. Reed; tintype of, presumably, Lewis Britton Reed
  • Flora Reed; CDV as a young girl by the Poff & Whissemore studio of Loudonville, Ohio.  Presumably the Flora Mae Reed who became the wife of Andrew Jackson Frasher, whose tintype is in the album
  • ? Reed, with Mark D; tintype with no studio imprint
  • ? Reed; CDV by the Clingan studio at Wooster, Ohio
  • J. R. Reed, Sr., tintype with no studio imprint
  • J. R. Reed, Sr.; tintype, no studio imprint
S
  • Lucy Snyder; cabinet photograph by the Mt. Vernon Art Gallery of Mt. Vernon, Ohio

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