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.