- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Ainsworth Emory Blunt, not after 1865]
- Creator:
- Eureka Copying House (Huntington, WV)
- Date of Original:
- 1820/1865
- Subject:
- Georgia--Politics and government
Portraits
Religion - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Ainsworth Emery Blunt (1800-1865) was from Amherst N.H. In 1822 he was sent by the New England Congregationalist Church to an Indian mission at Brainerd, Tenn. In 1843 he arrived in the community of Cross Plains, now known as Dalton. The mission had closed. He served as postmaster of Cross Plains. In 1847 when this community was incorporated as Dalton, he was elected its first mayor. He was active in both community and First Presbyterian Church endeavors. The photograph was copied by the Eureka Copying House in Huntington, West Virginia in 1885.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_wtf036
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:wtf036
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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