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Henry Bennet was a preacher born in Maryland October 21, 1807.  He settled in parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania preaching.  While living in Burton he preached at the Liming Ridge Church of Christ in Monongalia County.  He died in Fairmont in 1902.

1. Henry Bennett, Battelle District, Monongalia County, W. Va.

Cased portrait of Mrs. Josephine Neal Robb, "Cousin Jodie", daughter of Daniel R. Neal.

2. Portrait of Mrs. Josephine Neal Robb

Either an ambrotype or tintype, Pre-Civil War image of a young G. P. Gardener.

3. Cased Portrait of G. P. Gardner of Point Pleasant, Va. (later W. Va.)

Cased ambrotype photograph of an unidentified young man. The emulsion of this fragile image is beginning to fall off the plate. Ambrotypes were popular in the mid-1800's

4. Cased Portrait of Young Man, W. Va.

Ambrotype image of two prominent political leaders, active in the formation and government of West Virginia. The reverse side of the image has a political advertisement stating, "People's Ticket; For Congress, Wm G. Brown. Senate, Dan D. T. Farnsworth." Brown did serve in the United States House of Representatives before and during the Civil War. Farnsworth was never elected to the Senate, however he did served in the West Virginia Legislature for several terms and as Interim-Governor in 1869.

5. Cased Portrait of William G. Brown Sr. and Daniel D. T. Farnsworth, Western Virginia (West Virginia)

Information included with the image, " Richard Powell, U. B. Minister, Nephew - Grandmother Lewis."

6. Cased Ambrotype Portrait of Richard Powell

Ambrotype of Mary McNab wearing the fashion and hair style of the 1860's.

7. Cased Portrait of Aunt Mary McNab

Harsh stood strongly with the Union during the Civil War in the midst of a Confederate stronghold in Barbour County. He served under Captain Michael T. Haller. This cased image of Harsh is possibly a ambrotype.

8. Samuel F. Harsh of Barbour County (W. Va.) Home Guard

Either an ambrotype or tintype image of G. P. Gardner wearing an officer's uniform of possibly the Union Army,and holding a sword with a revolver tucked in his belt.

9. Cased Portrait of Civil War Army Officer G. P. Gardner of Point Pleasant, Va. (later W. Va.)

Pierpoint was originally from Morgantown, Virginia (later West Virginia. He was employed in Indiana at the start of the Civil War and enlisted in a Indiana regiment. His parents, also loyal to the Union, were still living in Morgantown. This cased image is probably an ambrotype.

10. Union Corporal Jacob Pierpoint, 19th Indiana Vol. Regiment

An ambrotype portrait of a small boy, probably the son of G. P. Gardner of Point Pleasant, Mason County.

11. Cased Portrait of Unidentified Child, Point Pleasant, W. Va.

An ambrotype portrait of Nathaniel Alcock Bailee [Baillie] dressed in an unidentified uniform. Bailee was a chief civil engineer during the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the Kanawha Valley, ca. 1867-1873.

12. Cased Portrait of Nathaniel Bailee [Baillie] of Hansford, W. Va.