Edward Charles Hewke

This is a special page for a cabinet card by a very interesting photographer from the collection of rfinch on Ancestry.com

Photographer: Hewke, Washington, DC
from the collection of
rfinch on Ancestry.com

Edward Charles Hewke
(1861 - 1940)

1861 Aug
Edward C Hewke Born in New York
1887
New York registry E C Hewke marries Mary “Minnie” S Sloane
1894
New York, NY, city directory as manager of unknown work; res 134 w 4th
1899
NOT in DC directory
1899 Sep 16
Washington DC Evening Times small ad shows Hewke had arrived in DC by September of 1899

The Evening Times (Washington DC) - 16 Sep 1899

1900 Jun 06
US census Washington DC as photographer; res 420 7th;(Possibly 425)

Typographical Journal - 07 Mar 1903

1905 Feb 05 through Aug 18
Washington Sun Times - 27 small listings as photographer 430 7th st,

Washington Times Sun -
05 Feb through Aug 18 1905

1906
Utica, NY city directory as photographer at 166 Genesee, res 85 State
1907
Utica, NY city directory as photographer at 166 Genesee AND 469 Main; res 647 ½ Main
1908 thru 1912
Springfield, MA, city directory as photographer at 469 Main; res 647 ½ Main

1914 - 1921
Springfield, MA, city directory as photographer at 469 Main; res 28 Myrtle
1922
Springfield, MA city directory listing only states rem to California
1924
Meriden, CT, city directory as photographer at Akers Studio Wife Mary also listed as photographer

Bulletin of Photography News - 27 Dec 1922

1924
wife Mary “Minnie” Sloane dies in Massachusetts
1925
Edward C. Hewke marries Helen E Sloane, Mary’s sister, in Manhattan, NY

Continued below

1925
Edward C. Hewke marries Helen E Sloane, Mary’s sister, in Manhattan, NY
1930 Apr 10
US census Burlington, VT, as photographer at 73 Church ast
1940 Apr 01
US census Topsham, ME, no occupation shown; res 33 Elms
1940 Jul 1
Edward C Hewke dies No details have been found

A page by page search of the 1899 Washington DC city directory didn’t find photographer Hewke. But a small ad in The Washington (DC) Times shows that although he apparently missed the printing deadline for the annual city directory, he had established an address by September 1899. The cabinet card shown here must have been finished between September 1899 and 1906.

Here is an additional card by Hewke sent in by a contributor.

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