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CDV by Joseph Carr Moulton, 159 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Photographer Joseph Carr Moulton was born 1 January 1824 in New Hampshire, the son of Jonathan Smith Moulton and Polly Rice, who would have 12 children. Circa 1845, he left his parents’ farm and went to Newton, Massachusetts to work in a machine shop. He decided that this was not the profession he wanted to follow, and studied daguerreotypes with traveling photographer John A. Gould. He eventually set up a daguerreotype studio in 1848 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts at Heywood and Comse’s Block. He married Susan L. Park (born circa March 1825) on 1 November 1848 and the couple would have at least three children. He moved from Comse’s Block to the building of “The Sentinel” newspaper at Caldwell Block, and stayed there for a year. In 1850 he established a studio at 159 Main Street, and would remain on Main Street for the next 50 years. By the time of the 1870 census, his son Horatio was working in the studio and by 1880 listed his occupation as photographer. One of his daughters, Alice, became a painter. Joseph Moulton passed away on 1 March 1914.
CDV by Joseph Carr Moulton, 159 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Photographer Joseph Carr Moulton was born 1 January 1824 in New Hampshire, the son of Jonathan Smith Moulton and Polly Rice, who would have 12 children. Circa 1845, he left his parents’ farm and went to Newton, Massachusetts to work in a machine shop. He decided that this was not the profession he wanted to follow, and studied daguerreotypes with traveling photographer John A. Gould. He eventually set up a daguerreotype studio in 1848 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts at Heywood and Comse’s Block. He married Susan L. Park (born circa March 1825) on 1 November 1848 and the couple would have at least three children. He moved from Comse’s Block to the building of “The Sentinel” newspaper at Caldwell Block, and stayed there for a year. In 1850 he established a studio at 159 Main Street, and would remain on Main Street for the next 50 years. By the time of the 1870 census, his son Horatio was working in the studio and by 1880 listed his occupation as photographer. One of his daughters, Alice, became a painter. Joseph Moulton passed away on 1 March 1914.