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Photo--sepia--Carte de visite: Lelia Bowman (m. Hoover) circa 1875.- daughter of Dave and Rachel Gilliam Bowman. Rachel is the younger sister of Mary "Polly" Gilliam Sullivan. The Gilliam's and Sullivans were early pioneers to Green Valley (Graton). Family photos of the extended family of Isaac Wilson Sullivan--cousins. Photograph by Hiram Hoyt of Santa Rosa. Hiram Hoyt worked as a photographer in California between 1873-1875 before he started his studio in Seattle, Washington in 1876. Hoyt worked in Seattle until 1878, and then moved to Texas where he worked from 1877-1899.
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