Ford, Giles Wheeler^{[1, 2]}

1830 - 1871  (40 years)

• Name	Ford, Giles Wheeler
  Birth	23 Aug 1830	OH
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1858	Victoria, BC
  	Undetermined if he visited.
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1858-1859	Olympia, WA
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1858-ca. 1870	Steilacoom, WA
  	End date uncertain.
  Death	17 May 1871	Steilacoom, WA
  Burial	Fort Steilacoom, WA
  Person ID	I540	Camera Workers | F, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Itinerant; Commercial (visit). BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A news item, which gives his name as George Ford, mentioned his imminent departure for Victoria from Steilacoom where he had been taking daguerreotype portraits for six weeks or since the middle of Jul 1858. He had moved to Steilacoom from Olympia. There was no newspaper evidence that he did make the trip to Victoria on the steamer Constitution in Sep. Ford opened a gallery the following year in Steilacoom with Erastus A. Light (1822-1899) as Ford and Light. The partnership did not last a year. Ford was married on 4 Jul 1860 to Mrs. Elizabeth Simmons Affleck and spent the rest of his short life in Washington Territory. Although he listed himself as a photographer in the 1870 U.S. census, he appears not to have practiced the craft after 1860. Ford is buried in the Fort Steilacoom Cemetery.

  
  

• Sources

  [S711] Puget Sound Herald, 23 Jul 1858-27 May 1859 05. [S385] Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn, Palmquist and Kailbourn (2000), (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).