Exhibition

Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840
Broadbent Gallery: July 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004
Anne Bissonnette, Curator

 

 

Portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr.
chalk on pink paper by Charles Balthazar Julian Feveret de Memin (1770-1852), unknown place of origin, ca. 1810-1820, OHS
Collection of the Ohio Historical Society, H64286.

Meigs was a native of Connecticut, one of the first 48 settlers of Marietta in 1788
and was governor of Ohio from 1810 to 1814.

 

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