Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson Wearing a Mourning Brooch, Detail, Albumen Cabinet Card of Circa 1855 Daguerreotype, Detail
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection
On the reverse is written "Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson, at age about 22, copied from daguerreotype taken about 1850." In actuality, Mary's fashions date the original image firmly to about 1855, when she would have been about 27.
"Blair & Son, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, 411 Main Street, Worcester, Mass."
Mary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 28 Nov 1828 to Nathaniel Brooks and Mary Chadwick. Mary's father was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 3 Oct., 1797 to Samuel Brooks and Ann Butler Bedel. He passed away on 3 Nov., 1850, when Mary was about 22 years old. Mary's mother was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 3 July, 1794. She passed away on 31 Aug 1876 in Worcester. The couple had 8 children.
Mary Chadwick Brooks married John Anderson and they had at least one child, Grace Anderson, who was born 25 July, 1865, in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Grace married Everett Wyman Stone, born 5 Oct., 1893, in Boston.
Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson Wearing a Mourning Brooch, Detail, Albumen Cabinet Card of Circa 1855 Daguerreotype, Detail
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection
On the reverse is written "Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson, at age about 22, copied from daguerreotype taken about 1850." In actuality, Mary's fashions date the original image firmly to about 1855, when she would have been about 27.
"Blair & Son, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, 411 Main Street, Worcester, Mass."
Mary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 28 Nov 1828 to Nathaniel Brooks and Mary Chadwick. Mary's father was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 3 Oct., 1797 to Samuel Brooks and Ann Butler Bedel. He passed away on 3 Nov., 1850, when Mary was about 22 years old. Mary's mother was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 3 July, 1794. She passed away on 31 Aug 1876 in Worcester. The couple had 8 children.
Mary Chadwick Brooks married John Anderson and they had at least one child, Grace Anderson, who was born 25 July, 1865, in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Grace married Everett Wyman Stone, born 5 Oct., 1893, in Boston.