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Description
Mary Eliza Wilson was born in Missouri and came to California in 1849 with her parents, "General" John Wilson (Indian agent and naval agent) and Anne Robertson Pulliam Wilson, her brothers, and her sister. She married Ferdinand Oscar Wakeman in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 1854. She died in Santa Cruz, Sept. 29, 1897. (cf. Rogers, Fred B. in the California Historical Society Quarterly (1951), v. 30, p. 65). She was listed in the 1880 San Francisco census as a widow, approximately age 44, living in the home of her widowed mother, Ann R. Wilson, along with the family of her daughter Kate (Wakeman) Dennis. Unknown. Possibly received with the papers of General John Wilson (BANC MSS C-B 420) Three-quarter length portrait, seated, wearing jewelry (brooch, ring).
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : ambrotype ; quarter plate, visible image 9.7 x 7.6 cm.
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