Clementine L. Dixon Welling

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Title

Clementine L. Dixon Welling

Subject

Photography, Civil War Portraits, Carte de visites, Civil War nurses,

Description

Biography: daughter of Sen. James Dixon of Connecticut, Miss Clementine L. Dixon, privately educated by poetess, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, during the Civil War 1861-1865 volunteered at Armory Square hospital in Washington, D.C, after the Civil War she turned down a marriage proposal by O. C. Marsh, Yale paleontology professor, she and her sister ran Rose Mount, family estate located where the Aetna Insurance home office in Hartford, CT. She married George Washington University president, Dr. James Clarke Welling, they had two children, Elizabeth Dixon Welling and William Corcoran Welling. She died at Rose Mount in 1911.

Creator

Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

3" x 2"

Files

ClementineCV.jpg
Date Added
October 6, 2011
Item Type
Image
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Citation
Miss Elizabeth Dixon Welling, “Clementine L. Dixon Welling,” e A r c h i V e s , accessed March 28, 2024, https://citizenarchivist.omeka.net/items/show/420.