$308
Eight Daguerreotype Portraits of Gentlemen, six sixth-plate size portraits of middle-aged and elderly men: an elderly gentleman holding a folk-carved cane, identified on a paper label as "Gen[eral] Micah Brooks Brooks' Grove, Livingston Co. N.Y.," one labeled "Sam Richardson," one of a minister holding a book, and three others; two ninth-plate size of middle-aged men: one possibly a minister labeled "Dr. Josiah Bowers," and another unidentified man, each in a pressed-paper/leather case, (imperfections). Note: General Micah Brooks was born in 1775 in New Haven County, Connecticut. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1806, was a member from Ontario County of the New York State Assembly in 1808-09, served as colonel on the frontier and at Fort Erie during the War of 1812, and was a major general of the New York State Infantry from 1828 to 1830. The town of Brooks' Grove, Livingston County, New York, was named after him.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-05-23
