Photograph
Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover
![Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, the daughter of Jairus Fairchild and the sister of Governor Lucius Fairchild. Sarah married and later divorced Madison businessman Eliab Dean; she later married University of Wisconsin professor Obadiah Conover. This photograph was probably taken in 1865-1866, the brief period when photographer J. Bodtker was active in Madison. Mrs. Conover's step daughter-in-law Grace Clark Conover dated it as a few years years earlier: "[taken] in the '50s as a young woman; she looked the same till she died in the 1900s."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700006020005/0602000049-l.jpg "Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover")
| Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, the daughter of Jairus Fairchild and the sister of Governor Lucius Fairchild. Sarah married and later divorced Madison businessman Eliab Dean; she later married University of Wisconsin professor Obadiah Conover. This photograph was probably taken in 1865-1866, the brief period when photographer J. Bodtker was active in Madison. Mrs. Conover's step daughter-in-law Grace Clark Conover dated it as a few years years earlier: "[taken] in the '50s as a young woman; she looked the same till she died in the 1900s." |
| Image ID: | 38215 |
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| Creation Date: | 1865 |
| Creator Name: | Bodtker, James F. |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Grace Clark Conover family photographs, 1850-1940 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 2566 |
| Original Dimensions: | 2.75 x 3.75 inches |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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