The pretty young woman in this cabinet card photograph is identified on the reverse of the card as Flora Grantham. She is wearing flowers pinned to her dress and holding a parasol. Flora Grantham was born in 1863 in Indiana. The 1870 US census reveals that she was living in Wilmington, Ohio with her parents and four siblings. Her father was a Justice of the Peace. The 1880 census, taken when Flora was a sixteen year old student, found her father no longer in her household. Flora married in 1897 and her married name was Flora G. Patterson. Her husband was a merchant and the pair lived in Wilmington. The photographer of this image is Charles Butterworth (1858-1936). He is listed as a Wilmington based photographer in the 1880 US census.By 1900, he was operating a photography studio in Portland, Oregon. SOLD
THE CABINET CARD GALLERY 