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Walter Chester Wells
(1831 – 1908)
1831 Jan 16
New York, NY, state records, Walter Chester Wells is born to Gustavus Vassa Wells and Matilda Wells
1850 July 26
Madison, OH, US census, Walter C Wells, age 20, as farming
1852 May 27
Lake, OH, state records, Walter Wells and Orlinda Sinclair are married
1854
Marengo (IL) Republican (1894) feature item says Wells began photography this year
1855
From Marengo (IL) Republican News, obituary, W C Wells moves to Marengo, IL to open gallery
1862 Aug 06
Marengo (IL) Republican News, obituary, W C Wells returns to Plainsville, OH, to enlist in Company D, 105 Regiment, Ohio Volunteers
1863
Marengo (IL) Republican (1894) feature item says Wells began photograph business in Marengo this year
1870 Jul 03
Lafayette, WI, US census, Walter “Wills” as farmer, wife Orlinda and dau. Estelle also listed
1874 Mar 14
Marengo (IL) Republican item says W C Wells found a purple tinged pearl during oyster dinner
1880 Jun 09
Warren, IL, US census, Walter Wells as photographer/artist
1882 Jan 27
Marengo (IL) Republican, item says W C Wells is planning move from Warren, IL, to Marengo, IL
1882 Mar 17
Marengo (IL) Republican, item says W C Wells is returning to Warren, IL, to close business
1883 Apr 27
Marengo (IL) Republican, item says W C Wells will be in Dakota for about a month
1885 May 08
Marengo (IL) Republican News, small at for portraits by W C Wells, studio first door east and north of Baptist church
1887 Aug 12
Marengo (IL) Republican News, item says W C Wells will be in Chicago at the photographer national convention
1888 Aug 24 to Oct 24
Marengo (IL) Republican, display ad for W C Wells, photographer, “first door north of the Baptist Church
1888 June 22 to 1888 Dec 28
Marengo (IL) Republican News, display ad for W C Wells photographer, repeated 12 times
1890 Jan 13 to 1890 Dec 12
Marengo (IL) Republican News, display ad for W C Wells photographer, repeated 24 times
1890 Nov 21
Marengo (IL) Republican News, small feature item about W C Wells, photographer
1894 May 06
Chicago (IL) Inter Ocean, small ad for W C Wells at 119 DeKalb st to do retouching for galleries
1894 Dec 21
Marengo (IL) Republican News, feature item tells of W C Wells career, 29 years in Marengo
1900 Jun 09
Marengo, IL, US census, Walter Wells as photographer; res Church Street
1904 Dec 01
Marento, IL, state records, wife Orlinda Wells dies at age 70
1908 Oct 25
Marengo (IL) Republican News, Obituary, FindAGrave, Walter Chester Wells dies at age 77
Most of the photograph career of W C Wells was in Marengo, IL, in two parcels: One before the service in the war, 1862, and one after a second period being a farmer around 1870.
14 Mar 1874
27 Jan 1882
18 Mar 1882
27 Apr 1883
08 May 1885
02 Aug 1887
22 Jun 1888
20 Jun 1895
21 Nov 1890
06 May 1894
21 Dec 1894
30 Oct 1908
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