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  • Collection: Profiles of Local Persons, Rossville, Kansas

Five unmarked tintype portraits

Collection of ambrotype portraits in cases

This portrait of a woman has a photographer's studio stamp in the bottom right corner that has been damaged. It is from the collection of Mabel Boyles, who was from Rossville, Kansas.

Back inscription: H.M. Bailey
[other illegible notes]

W.R. Ireland, Holton, Kans.

[If the children of Herbert Bailey, then most likely these three are Elsie, Myrtle, and Arthur]

Dr. Robert S. Gabbey was born May 4, 1833, in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and married Annie Welton in 1854. He was appointed the Rossville, Kansas, government physician in 1861 and was the first justice of the peace appointed in 1867. He applied…
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