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Sophia Gallup Stanley
Description Albumen print on cardstock of Sophia Gallup Stanley.
Year Range 1864
from
Year range 1866
to
Medium Cardstock/Photographic Paper
Neg # 4500
Notes Albumen print on cardstock, half seated view of Sophia Gallup Stanley. Mrs. Stanley is
photographed sitting in a large elaborately carved chair. She is wearing a dark colored
dress with bonnet. She is holding eyeglasses. Mrs. Stanley is pictured later in life. The
image was mis-identified as Mrs. Chester Gallup by the donor, but Mrs. Gallup died almost
10 years before this image was taken. Sophia Gallup Webster and her husband had three
children. Sophia Gallup Webster was born in the state of New York, she is buried in
Ellenwood Cemetery in Oshkosh, along with her daughter Martha. The youngest was
George, born 9-26-1838, the first white male born in the city of Oshkosh. George lived in
Antigo, Wisconsin where he died and is buried. Their older son was named of Henry.
Henry came to the Oshkosh area at the age of fourteen along with his father. Henry left
Oshkosh in the 1860's, and for a time lived in Michigan. In 1836 they moved to the south
side of the Fox River across from the present site of Riverside Cemetery, what would later
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