Clementine L. Dixon Welling
Dublin Core
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"
- Date Added
- October 6, 2011
- Item Type
- Image
- Tags
- Armory Square hospital, Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, O. C. Marsh, Sen. James Dixon, Yale
- 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.