A 4"x6" glass plate negative, portrait photograph of Reverend J. E. Conner, David City, Nebraska. He is wearing a dark, 3-piece suit, white shirt with starched wing collar and narrow white bow tie. He is holding a document in one hand, wearing a dark mustache, a pocket-watch chain attached to his vest buttonhole, sitting with his back to a cloth-covered table.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00036540000
Source
Original format: 4"x6" glass plate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
Reverand James Edwin Conner was a minister in the Baptist Church in David City, Nebraska. He was born in New Jersey in March 1863, the son of Ely Mettler and Henrietta Phoebe Wyckoff Conner. He married Lillian Davis and they raised five children. They moved to Clay County, Nebraska, shortly after this photo was taken. He died in 1906.
