This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dawdy, Newell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/1926.2 Message Board Post: I'm compiling a directory of Indiana photographers and have this information about Andrew J. Dawdy. Do you have any photographs of him or his studio? What were his parents' names? Do you know anything else about his photography career? Joan Hostetler, Indiana Photographers Project heritagephoto@indy.rr.com Listed as a photographer in Goshen in these sources: 1879-80 Williams & Co. Indiana State Directory, p. 369 1880 Census, Goshen, Elkhart Co., p. 413a 1882-83 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1088 1884-85 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1063 1887-88 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1330 1890-91 Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1206 The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac, 1891, p. 394, patent 425,306 printing frame support, A. J. Dawdy, Goshen, IN 1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 985 (Andrew J. Dawdy) The Blue Book for Amateur Photographers American Edition, 1895, p. 240, A. J. Dawdy In partnership at Dawdy & Adams, 1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1027 (not sure if this is A. J. Dawdy) West Side Main Street, Goshen, ca. 1890 cabinet card: "Dawdy's Extra Finish" Dawdy & Son City Studio, W. side Main St., Goshen, early 1890s cabinet card 1880 Census, Goshen, Elkhart Co., p. 413a Andrew J. Dawdy, photograph artist, 40, OH Catharine, wife, 42, PA Willie C., son, 10, IN Elkhart Co. Marriage Records Andrew J. Dawdy m. Catharine E. Newell, Mar. 31, 1868, bk. 3, p. 155 Civil War Pension: Andrew J. Dawdy, I? 13 Ill. Inf., filed for pension in IN, Catharine E. widow Henry Norberg genealogy, http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1958833&id=I94532809, hcnorberg@hotmail.com, [Sept 17, 2002]: lists death date as May 21, 1898, died Goshen