Monday, October 3, 2022

Clark Eugene Churchill

Looking at Clark Eugene Churchill (see Robert Wilson Pearson timeline at 1894)
photographer: C E Churchill
Arcade, NY
example from Family Search

This example was found by contributor "Dawn" in the comment section at the bottom of the page.

Clark Eugene Churchill
(1847 – 1923)

1847 Oct 24
New York, state records, Clark Eugene Churchill is born to Stephen Giles Churchill and Margaret Widrig
1860 Aug 08
Oxford, WI, US census, apparently Clark Churchill, age 13, and family spend some time in Wyoming, farming
1870 July 05
Arcade, NY, US census, Clark Eugene Churchill NOT found in line by line search
Wyoming County Gazetteer, C E Churchill NOT listed Concord, NY, US census, Clark Churchill, as age 22, as working in box factory
1873
Buffalo, NY, city directory, Clark Eugene “Churchil” listed at 174 Pearl
1873
Springville, NY, state records, Clark Churchill and Ella Ferrin are married
1874
Buffalo, NY, city directory, Clark Eugene Churchill listed Chapin Block W. Swan

1875
Buffalo, NY, city directory, Clark Eugene Churchill NOT listed; Buffalo, NY city directory lists a Clarke H Churchill at 15 Court;
1880 Jun 03
Arcade, NY, US census, Clark Churchill as photographer; wife Ella
1883 Aug 17
Arcade, NY, Leader, small item says C D Churchill and wife have taken a vacation from the gallery
1889 Dec 13
Hamburg (NY) Independent, news item about C E Churchill being paid for lighting street lamps in Arcade, NY
1893 Nov 11
Buffalo (NY) Evening News, classified ad for assistant for Churchill photo gallery in Arcade, NY
1896 Apr 30
Buffalo (NY) Commercial, small item says C E Churchill is again doing business at the photograph gallery in Franklinville
1898 Aug 01
Clark Churchill begins as postmaster at Arcade, NY
begging August 1, 1898
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1900 Jun 03
Arcade, NY, US census, Clark Churchill as postmaster; wife Ella
1903 Jan 22
US records, Clark Churchill re-appointed as postmaster,
1910 Apr 20
Arcade, NY, US census, C E Churchill as “mine business”
1915
Arcade, NY, state census, Clark E Churchill as “retired from business”
1920 Jan 04
Arcade, NY, US census, Clark E Churchill as “retired merchant”
1923 Jan 31
Arcade, NY, state records, Clark E Churchill dies at age 75

It appears the Clark Eugene Churchill wasn’t in the photography business very long. In the 1880 census he is listed as photographer. Then by 1898 he has been appointed as postmaster in Arcade, NY, and never returns to photography.

Springville (NY) Journal - 17 Aug 1883 Buffalo (NY) Commercial - 03 Nov 1887 Buffalo (NY) Evening News - 11 Nov 1893 Buffalo (NY) Commercial - 30 Apr, 1896
Said to be the Clark Churchill photo studio 1880-1896

photographer: C E Churchill
Main Street, Arcade, NY
example from auction site
reverse of card at left
photographer: C E Churchill
Arcade, NY
example from auction site
reverse of CDV at left
photographer: Churchill
Arcade, NY
example from auction site
photographer: C E Churchill
Arcade, NY
example from auction site
photographer: Churchill
Arcade, NY
example from auction site

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