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Eliab Dean
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Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Eliab Dean, (b. 1819 - d. 1900) an early Madison businessman. Dean came to Madison in the 1840s to work for his cousin, Dr. J.D. Weston, together with his brother Nathaniel Dean and several other siblings. At various times Dean was in partnership with Nathaniel Dean and with his father-in-law Jarius Fairchild. Dean and Sarah Fairchild Dean were later divorced.
1860
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Mrs. Nathaniel Dean
1860
Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Madison in 1839, and married in 1847. It is ...
Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover
1865
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 businessm...
Jairus Fairchild
1862
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lucius Fairchild, governor and Civil War gen...
Edwin Sumner
circa 1860-1869
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin Sumner, seated, a leading Madison pharmacist who was in partnership with his father-in-law, Philo Dunning.
Lucius Fairchild
1864
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Lucius Fairchild in Madison, probably after the loss of his arm at Gettysburg. This portrait can be dated as no later than mid-1864 because that is the...
Hubert Anson Newton, Astronomer
1869
Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896), American astronomer and mathematician. He was best known for his research on meteors. His name, along with "1869," have been ...
