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Auction archive: Lot number 62

Half Plate Ambrotype of the Talcott Family of Vermont, Housed in American Country Life Union Case

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n. a.
Price realised:
US$330
Auction archive: Lot number 62

Half Plate Ambrotype of the Talcott Family of Vermont, Housed in American Country Life Union Case

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$330
Beschreibung:

Half plate ambrotype of the Talcott family housed in an American Country Life thermoplastic case (Berg, 1-11). A period inscription identifies the family members standing from left to right as: Johnathan Roswell Talcott, Jerusha Talcott Draper-Crane, Lucy Root Talcott (Mrs. Lewis Talcott). Seated from left to right Milton Draper (Jerusha's husband), Seth Cole Talcott, and Lewis Talcott. The Talcott family is deeply rooted in New England history. They hailed from Essex County England as early as 1558. In 1632 John Talcott emigrated to Boston but settled in Hartford, Connecticut beginning their long family history in the area. David Talcott moved to Williston, Vermont in the 1780s and was elected one of its first selectmen. He bought a large track of land that would remain in the family for several generations and became one of the largest dairies in the state of Vermont in the 1880s. Johnathan Roswell Talcott (1844-1919) was the youngest of five children born to Roswell and Lodisa Talcott. Johnathan Roswell is a young boy in the photograph, but fate moved him out west to California in the 1800s where his eldest brother Seth Cole (1825-1907), a real estate dealer in the area (seated in the center), and older brother, Lewis Holt (seated at the far right) once lived. He stayed in California and married Cynthia Roxana Fay in Vermont in 1869. They had two children, Anna and Seth Roswell. In California he worked as a dairyman and made enough income to own his home and have a servant, Long Kim. He died in 1919. Jerusha Tallcot (1827-1919) was educated at a popular seminary in Carlise, NY. Illness prohibited her from obtaining her degree but it did not inhibit her success. She became a highly respected teacher in the common and higher schools in Williston. She married Milton Draper (seated at the far left) in 1858. They had three children, but only one lived beyond age three. She and her husband started a farm in Indiana, but after Milton's death in 1880 she returned with their only surviving daughter to live with her parents. She served as the town superintendent of the public schools for over four years in the 1880s and remarried Horatio D. Crane, a carpenter and joiner, at the age of 61 in January of 1889. Their marriage bliss was brief, he died that October from peritonitis. Lewis Holt (1836-1910) ventured to San Francisco, California in 1862 to participate in dairying. Immediately after the Civil War he moved back home to Williston and established Root Farm. The venture turned into a profitable business, eventually becoming the largest dairy in the state of Vermont. In 1876 he purchased a large cheese factory built by Hiram Wallston on the original Talcott farm. By 1885 his dairy boasted a 2,000 acre farm with a herd of 300 cows that produced 150,000 ponds of cheese and 16,000 pounds of butter that year. He married the beautiful Lucy Root (standing behind him in the image) in the spring of 1858. They had five children but only outlived two, Jennie and Frank. He died of a brain embolism in 1910. Condition: Fine, it does not have its original seals

Auction archive: Lot number 62
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jan 2016
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

Half plate ambrotype of the Talcott family housed in an American Country Life thermoplastic case (Berg, 1-11). A period inscription identifies the family members standing from left to right as: Johnathan Roswell Talcott, Jerusha Talcott Draper-Crane, Lucy Root Talcott (Mrs. Lewis Talcott). Seated from left to right Milton Draper (Jerusha's husband), Seth Cole Talcott, and Lewis Talcott. The Talcott family is deeply rooted in New England history. They hailed from Essex County England as early as 1558. In 1632 John Talcott emigrated to Boston but settled in Hartford, Connecticut beginning their long family history in the area. David Talcott moved to Williston, Vermont in the 1780s and was elected one of its first selectmen. He bought a large track of land that would remain in the family for several generations and became one of the largest dairies in the state of Vermont in the 1880s. Johnathan Roswell Talcott (1844-1919) was the youngest of five children born to Roswell and Lodisa Talcott. Johnathan Roswell is a young boy in the photograph, but fate moved him out west to California in the 1800s where his eldest brother Seth Cole (1825-1907), a real estate dealer in the area (seated in the center), and older brother, Lewis Holt (seated at the far right) once lived. He stayed in California and married Cynthia Roxana Fay in Vermont in 1869. They had two children, Anna and Seth Roswell. In California he worked as a dairyman and made enough income to own his home and have a servant, Long Kim. He died in 1919. Jerusha Tallcot (1827-1919) was educated at a popular seminary in Carlise, NY. Illness prohibited her from obtaining her degree but it did not inhibit her success. She became a highly respected teacher in the common and higher schools in Williston. She married Milton Draper (seated at the far left) in 1858. They had three children, but only one lived beyond age three. She and her husband started a farm in Indiana, but after Milton's death in 1880 she returned with their only surviving daughter to live with her parents. She served as the town superintendent of the public schools for over four years in the 1880s and remarried Horatio D. Crane, a carpenter and joiner, at the age of 61 in January of 1889. Their marriage bliss was brief, he died that October from peritonitis. Lewis Holt (1836-1910) ventured to San Francisco, California in 1862 to participate in dairying. Immediately after the Civil War he moved back home to Williston and established Root Farm. The venture turned into a profitable business, eventually becoming the largest dairy in the state of Vermont. In 1876 he purchased a large cheese factory built by Hiram Wallston on the original Talcott farm. By 1885 his dairy boasted a 2,000 acre farm with a herd of 300 cows that produced 150,000 ponds of cheese and 16,000 pounds of butter that year. He married the beautiful Lucy Root (standing behind him in the image) in the spring of 1858. They had five children but only outlived two, Jennie and Frank. He died of a brain embolism in 1910. Condition: Fine, it does not have its original seals

Auction archive: Lot number 62
Auction:
Datum:
7 Jan 2016
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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