Goreham William (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. HB . Mustard cloth boards with very dark brown lettering to spine. Spine has a tower illus. There is a 0.75 inch (2cm) vertical tear at top of spine. The boards have wear to the corners, edges and jointsand the odd small stain. Ex-owner's anme and a bar of music and old price, all in pencil on the f.fep. 397 pages, incl., appendices, notes & index,+81 b&w illus.(I wonder how many of these towers and spires in Europe survived WW2?) Book tight and clean.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. A collection of three tintypes and three carte de visite portraits of the Goreham family of Harlan, Iowa. The tintypes are in decorative paper sleeves with purple backing. The cdvs are on typical stiff card; two with oval images and one rectangular. All the images with pencil notes on the rear, but one (see below), identifying each person. Overall near fine with very light wear and touch of soiling to the cdvs and the tintypes fresh with no clacking to the images. A nice collection of portraits of a Mormon family living in Iowa with all but one identified on the back. They include William Morton Goreham (1842-1899) and his wife Rhoda Louisa [nee Wade] (1944-1919), both originally from New York, and their children Salem Elson (1868-1940), Louis Wilber (1872-1955), and Walter E. (1879-1958). Their eldest child, Edith Mary (1864-1930) is NOT picture, but there is a second image of Walter, their youngest, riding on a rocking horse, with a penciled note from the photographer on the back: "Mr. Goreham. I find the little fellow moved so much that I can't correct it good / have done the best I could / send you 6 + will mail the rest if you choose, but rather you would come down again. DGS." William was a Civil War veteran for who served with the 12th Iowa from the fall of 1864 to the summer 1865. After serving as laborer for a few years, he founded his own nursery in Harlan, Iowa in 1873 and was baptized a member of the Reorganzied Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints five years later. Most interesting is a caption on the back of his tintype that reads: "They Cast The Devil out of Him into a Calf + it died. They Calf not the Devil still alive." Our research could not confirm or deny this compelling anecdote. Nevertheless, a nice, nearly complete set of image of this Iowa family.