James C. Adams

Photographer: J. C. Adams
108 Broadway, Fort Wayne, Ind.
example from LOST GALLERY

One could almost make a case that there were two men named J. C. Adams in the northern part of Indiana near Fort Wayne, around the turn of the nineteenth century. It doesn’t help that in FOUR census reports, he calls himself a farmer while historical accounts of him and his own death certificate describe him as a photographer. But, similarity in addresses, birthplaces of parents and the names of his wife and children, seem to make the farmer also the photographer.

It appears he started out as a farmer living next door to his father, William Adams, a Brick mason in Harrison Township, Blackford County, IN. In 1890 James Adams was learning photography as an artist with the Wm. Salzmann studio in Fort Wayne, IN, just 40 miles north of Blackford County. In 1892, his daughter was born in Bluffton, IN, 20 miles south of Fort Wayne. Then he moved another 20 miles south, back to Harrison Township, Blackford County in 1900.

By 1910 he is living next door in the same Blackford County in Washington Township, Hartford City, IN, where he maintained his photography studio. His farm land may well have been in the rural Harrison Township while he maintained residence in Hartford City in Washington Township.

James C. Adams
(3 Mar 1856 - 21 Sep 1927)

1856
Born in Indiana
1879
married Mary Schwartzkopf
1880
US census as farmer in Harrison Township, Blackford County, IN (where Hartford City is)
1889
NOT in Fort Wayne city directory
1890
Fort Wayne, IN, city directory as artist with Wm Salzmann photo studio, res 64 Force
1891
Fort Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer at 135 Broadway
1892
birth of daughter Mary Laverna Adams in Bluffton, IN, halfway between Fort Wayne and Hartford, IN (Source Mary Adams death certificate)
1893 - 1895
NOT in Fort Wayne, IN, city directory
1893
Operates as photographer in Hartford City, IN (Indiana Historical Society)
1895 - 1903
photo studio at 401 S Jefferson st (Indiana Historical Society)

1900
US census as Farmer in Harrison Township, Blackford County, IN (no street address shown)
1905 - 1916
photo studio at 209 ½ N Jefferson st Hartford City, Blackford, IN (Indiana Historical Society)
1910
US census as Farmer 438 Spring in Hartford City, IN
(The house was located at the junction of three streets, Spring, Patterson and Williams. The census enumerator apparently got the house number correct but placed it on Spring rather than Patterson.)
1911
Hartford City city directory as farmer at 438 E Patterson
1920
US census as farmer 438 Patterson in Hartford City, IN
1927
death certificate as photographer at 438 E Patterson in Hartford City, IN

Sources: Fort Wayne city directory 1890. 1891
Hartford City city directory 1911 (only one available)
Find-A-Grave website
Blackford County/ Photographers Collection, CA. 1880–1939
US census 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
Death Certificates

Photographer: J. C. Adams
135 Broadway, Fort Wayne, Ind.
example from LOST GALLERY

This is not likely to be our photographer:
Fort Wayne Sentinel (IN) - 18 Sep 1880

This is not James Adams either.
Argos(IN) Reflector - 2 Apr 1891

There were many cabinet card photographers named Adams. Following are a few.

photographer: John M Adams
Terre Haute, IN
example from auction site (No connection to James C Adams has been made yet)

reverse of the card at the left

photographer: O R Adams
Sac City, IA
example from auction site (No connection to James C Adams has been made yet.)

photographer: E C Adams
no location shown example from flickr member Fralara

photographer: E C Adams
no location shown
example from email contribution

photographer: E C Adams
no location shown
example from email contribution

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. Listed here are all the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY. This is a work in progress. For a look at the original postings go to LOST GALLERY.

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Frank Rufus Barrows

This is a special page presenting a cabinet card not in LOST GALLERY. It's by a very interesting photographer from the collection of rfinch on Ancestry.com

from the collection of
rfinch on Ancestry.com

Star Gallery was located at 16 w Berry st in Fort Wayne, IN, from about 1884 to about 1891. The cabinet card shown here was probably done then.

Frank Rufus Barrows
(1854 - 1920)

1854
Frank Rufus Barrows is born in Sturgis, MI
1877
Marriage to Abbie H. Johnson
1880
US census Fort Wayne, IN, as photographer; res 132 Madison st
1884 May 10
Fort Wayne (IN) Daily News item from Felix Schanz about opening the Star Gallery
1884
Fort Wayne, (IN) Daily News 26 small ads for Star Gallery, 16 w Berry st
1885 Jul 29
Fort Wayne, (IN) Daily News small item about artist Phillipe De Vaane visiting at Gallery, 16 w Berry st
1886 Oct - Dec
Fort Wayne (IN) Daily News 7 small ads for Star Gallery at 16 w Berry
1887 - 1889
Fort Wayne (IN) Daily News and Sentinel many small ads for Star Gallery at 16 w Berry
1889 Mar 01
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel news item Frank Barrows’ brother, Charles V Barrows marries Nellie Hollister

1890 Jan 28
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel news item about Charles Barrows, proprietor of Star Gallery (address not given)
1891 Aug 21, 27
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel and Fort Wayne (IN) Weekly Journal news item Star Gallery in Sturgis, MI, burns down
1893
Waterloo (IN) Press item says G J Parrot is takes over studio at Berry and Calhoun on 11 Sep
1893
Fort Wayne, IN, city directory Barrows as photographer at 62-64 Calhoun and 21-23 w Berry
1896
Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette item mentions Barrows owns x-ray tube
1897 - 1899
Fort Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer at 23 w Berry
1898 Feb 20
Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette item about Barrows studio at 23 Berry st, Fort Wayne, IN
1900
US census Fort Wayne, IN, as photographer
1901 March
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel item says F R Barrows is leaving Ft Wayne; George Parrot is to take over gallery

1901 Mar 25
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel item says F R Barrows home at 11 Edgewater is for sale
1902 Aug 14
Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette item says F R Barrows is now resident of Boston, MA
1902 -1904
Boston, MA, city directory as photographer at 1873 Dorchester av; res 2 Lombard
1903
Indianapolis (IN) Journal item mentions F R Burroughs of Boston
1902 - 1904
Boston, MA, city directory as photographer at 1873 Dorchester
1905
Boston, MA, city directory as photographer at 1330 Beacon
1909 Jul 19
Vicksburg (MI) American news item about photographers convention in New York, F R Barrows as president, article mentions he is from Boston.
1920 Jan 05
US census Eugene, OR, as no occupation living with daughter and her husband
1920 Jul 29
Eugene, Lane, OR, Frank Rufus Barrows dies at age 65

continued on next row

The Star Gallery was a business owned and operated by Frank Rufus Barrows. There was a Star Gallery located in at least two cities, Fort Wayne, IN, and another about fifty miles north in Sturgis, MI. Barrows had several photographers operating in these studios over the years. His brother Charles Barrows worked in both studios at times and was operating the one in Sturgis when it burned down in August of 1891.

Star Gallery was located at 16 w Berry st in Fort Wayne, IN, from about 1884 to about 1891. The cabinet card shown here was probably done then.

Felix Schanz operated the Star Gallery in Fort Wayne from about May of 1884 to Oct of 1886 when there was apparently a rather acrimonious separation. Schanz then opened his own gallery at 60 Calhoun st in Fort Wayne.

In April of 1895, Miss Marguerite Hanns went to work for Barrows at the Fort Wayne

Between 1893 and 1898 Barrows operated galleries at 62 64 Calhoun and 21-23 Berry but the name “Star Gallery” seems to have been dropped from the advertising and news items.

Fort Wayne (IN) Daily Gazette -
10 May 1884

Fort Wayne Sentinel - 28 Oct 1886


Fort Wayne Sentinel - 20 Nov 1886

Fort Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette -
24 May 1890


Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel - 21 Aug 1891

Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel - 20 Jul 1894

Waterloo (IN) Press - 09 Nov 1893

Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel - 27 Apr 1895


Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel 02 Mar 1901

Fort wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette -
02 Mar 1902

photographer: Barrows
62 and 64 Calhoun St, Ft Wayne, IN
example from auction site

Examples of phootographer F Schanz

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN
example from Rescued Photo
(see mention above)

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN
example from auction site

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN
example from auction site

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN
example from auction site

photographer: Star Gallery (Felix Schanz)
16 West Berry Street, FT Wayne, IN
example from auction site

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun St, Fr. Wayne, IN
example from contributor:
Melissa Hicks
melissa_hicks66@yahoo.com

photographer: F Schanz
112 Calhoun St, Fort Wayne, IN
example from facebook

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. All the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY are listed there.

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Additional information and new examples are always welcome. Any additional information will help narrow the time that these precious antiques were made.

All submissions should be free of glare and shadows.
Do not crop.
Leave a border around each card. The edges are sometimes an important clue to the age of the card.
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Charles Winslow Miner

Photographer: Miner & Dexter
44 Calhoun, Fort Wayne, Ind.
example from LOST GALLERY

Charles Winslow Miner
(26 Jan 1865 - 22 May 1912)

1865
born in Columbia City, IN
1879 - 1890
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory Not in these directories
1887
(Ft. Wayne (IN) Sentinel obit) arrives in Fort Wayne, IN
1891 - 1893
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer for Felix Shanz, 112 Calhoun;
1894 May 09
(Ft. Wayne (IN) Sentinel newspaper) ad for Miner and Dexter
1895
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer (Miner and Dexter) with William G. Dexter, 44 Calhoun;

1895
(Ft. Wayne Sentinel obit) opens own photograph studio
1896
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer 44 Calhoun (Dexter gone)
1897 - 1901
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer at 23 Wayne
1902 - 1911
Ft. Wayne, IN, city directory as photographer at 121 w Wayne
1912
(FindAGrave) dies, age 47 years

Very little was found about the life of William G Dexter except that his stay in Fort Wayne, IN, was short, apparently just over a year. This cabinet card appears to have been made in that brief period that C. W. Miner was partnered with William G. Dexter, in 1894-1895.

Fort Wayne News
04 Mar 1911

Fort Wayne Journal
12 May 1894

photographer: Miner and Dexter
Fort Wayne, IN
example from auction site
(finished in 1894 or 1895)

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. Listed here are all the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY. This is a work in progress. For a look at the original postings go to LOST GALLERY.

Some examples on this page have been enhanced or restored for clarity and presentation here.

This page is free for educational and research purposes only but, as always, if the original owner of any of these examples objects to the use on this page, they will be immediately removed.

Merritt Craig Stanton

Photographer: Stanton
Ground Floor Studio, Fort Wayne, Ind.
example from LOST GALLERY
(This cabinet card must have been finished between 1891 and 1894.)

Merritt Craig Stanton
(25 Jul 1870 - Feb 1959)

1870
Rebssekaer, NY, state records, M C Stanton is born
1886
Amsterdam, NY, city directory, M C Craig as clerk at 62 E Main
1887
Amsterdam, NY city directory, Merritt C Stanton as photographer at 70 E Main, working for George H Norton
1888
Amsterdam, NY city directory M C Stanton as printer, bds at 68 e Main
1891
Sioux City, IA, state record, Marriage License states that Merritt C Stanton is a photographer
1891
Fort Wayne, IN, city directory, Merritt C Stanton as photographer at 164 Calhoun, res same
1891 Aug 18
Fort Wayne, IN, Sentinel, ad says M C Stanton is at Ground Floor 164 Calhoun

Great coverage of Merritt Craig Stanton can be found at "Photographs, Pistols and Parasols"

1893 Jul 21
Fort Wayne, IN, Sentinel, as says M C Stanton is at 164 Calhoun
1894 Mar 27
Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel, Item says M C Stanton has moved to the corner of Columbus and Calhoun streets; now under management of Ed Perrey
1896 Jan 15
Port William, Clinton, OH; Daughter Ruby Stanton born
1900 Jun 01
Springfield, OH, US census, Merritt C Stanton as photographer at 26 ½ Fountain
1901, 1902
Springfield, OH, city directory, M C Stanton as photographer at 26 ½ S Fountain; Stanton Portrait Co
1904, 1905, 1907, 1909
Springfield, OH, city directory, M C Stanton as proprietor of Stanton Studio and Stanton Printing Co; 26 ½ S Fountain
1910 Apr 16
Springfield, OH, U S census; Merritt C Stanton as PRINTER, Rosetta Stanton as photographer

1913, 1915
Springfield, OH, city directory, M C Stanton as proprietor of Stanton’s Studio, 26 ½ S Fountain
1918 Nov 25
Springfield, OH, passport; Merritt Craig Stanton as photographer
1920, 1925, 1927
Springfield, OH, city directory; M C Stanton as photographer at 23 ½ Fountain
1928
Springfield, OH, city directory, M C Stanton is NOT in directory, Stanton Studio is managed by W A Biddle, 26 ½ S Fountain
1930 Apr 23
Marysville, OH, US census; Merritt Stanton as photographer at 128 s 4th st, Marysville, OH
1940 Apr 01
Marysville, OH, US census, Merritt Stanton; no occupation at 310 w 4th st, Marysville, Union, OH
1949
Somerville, NJ, city directory, M C Stanton; res 249 Altamont pl (no occupation shown; NOT in bus section
1959 Feb
State documents, M C Stanton dies in New Jersey at age 88

Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel -
18 Aug 1891

Fort Wayne (IN) Sentinel -
21 Jul 1893

Fort Wayne Sentinel
27 Mar 1894

Fort Wayne Sentinel
24 Aug 1894

photographer: Stanton
Opp Cathedral, FT Wayne, IN
example from auction site
(This cabinet card must have been finished between 1891 and 1894.)

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. All the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY are listed there.

Cabinet cards typically have the photographer’s name and address printed on the bottom edge or the reverse of the card. 19th century photographers moved around a lot. The basic idea here is to find WHEN a photographer was WHERE, which will help date an unidentified CABINET CARD from your family album.

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Harry A Jarrard

Photographer: Jarrard
86 Calhoun Street
Fort Wayne, Ind.
(note: See Miner & Dexter listings at 44 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Ind.)
On the reverse is written very lightly
Sabastian Onoger

Harry A Jarrard was found in the US Census four times, 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920. At each of these enumerations, he couldn’t seem to remember his own age exactly and in the 1920 count even the location of his birth moves from Indiana to Ohio. Those dates are correspondingly, 1858, 1851, 1852 and 1864. But all other facts match: family, location, occupation.

There are several items in Indiana newspapers about Harry Jarrard and his wife Emma.

His death still remains undocumented exactly. He was still alive for the 1920 US census which was enumerated January 05 of the year. He must be presumed deceased by Feb 05 1921 when his wife was advertising her own studio, which she had not done before. Although Jarrard’s last will and testament was written and witnessed 21 Aug 1919, it was not registered in probate record until 18 Mar 1924 three years after his death.

Note also when dating work by Jarrard studio, the imprinted name probably continued after his death while his wife Emma was running the studio. The changing studio addresses should probably pinpoint the date.

Harry A. Jarrard (Feb 1853 - 1920)

1853
born in Indiana
1880
(US Census) In Elwood, Madison County, IN
1885 Sep 13
(Newspaper item) new studio “over Eckart’s meat store”
1886
(Newspaper item) Fort Wayne Sentinel says opened gallery in Huntington
1888 Feb 14
marriage to Emma Short in Allen County
1889
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 66 Calhoun St.
1890 - 1896
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 86 Calhoun St.
1897
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 2 E Columbia Street
1900
(US Census) photographer at 2 E Columbia St. (later number changed to 102 E Columbia St.)
1901
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 2 E Columbia St.

1903 - 1907
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 607 Calhoun St.
1907 Mar 28
(Newspaper item) opens additional gallery in Monroeville, IN, Saturdays only
1909
(Fort Wayne city directory) photographer at 102 E Columbia
1910
(US Census) photographer at 102 E Columbia
1918 May 02
(Newspaper item) working at “Swain Gallery”
1919 Aug 19
actual date the last will was written
1920 Jan 03
(US Census) as photographer at Brookville, Franklin County, IN
1921 Nov 10
(Newspaper item) Emma Jarrard advertises her own studio
1929 Feb 14
(Newspaper item) notice of death of wife Emma, Feb. 5 in Chicago

The cabinet card at the left was probably done in 1886 before his move to 88 Calhoun Street.

photographer: Jarrard
86 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN
example from James Agnew on Flickr

Not the one you were looking for? Here's the photographer's INDEX by name. All the Cabinet Card photographers of the 19th century found in LOST GALLERY are listed there.

This is a work always in progress.

Aditional information and new examples are always welcome. Any additional information will help narrow the time that these precious antiques were made.

All submissions should be free of glare and shadows.
Do not crop.
Leave a border around each card. The edges are sometimes an important clue to the age of the card.
Email to the address found in the profile at the bottom of this page.

Some examples on this page have been enhanced or restored for clarity and presentation here.

This page is free for educational and research purposes only but, as always, if the original owner of any of these examples objects to the use on this page, just let me know and they will be immediately removed.