CHEST-UP VIEW OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL JONAS H. FRENCH – NEW ORLEANS PHOTOGRAPHER

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This CDV image shows French from the mid-chest up. He wears a dark double-breasted frock coat with shoulder straps.

Contrast and clarity are very good. Paper and mount are also in nice shape.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for E. JACOBS… NEW ORLEANS along with an ink ID of COL. FRENCH OF BUTLER”S STAFF.”

Jonas H. French was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1829 and graduated from the English High School and entered the grocery business. He enrolled in the Boston City Guard and served two years on the staff of Governor Gardner and at the age of 32 was commander of The Ancient and Honorable Artillery. He was elected a member of the Boston Common Council in 1852 and was reelected in 1854 and 1855.

In 1861 he rose and commanded the 30th Massachusetts Infantry and sailed with General Benjamin Butler for New Orleans. While there French was made provost marshal general of Louisiana.

After the war French was active in local politics as a Democrat. He also found a company called the Cape Ann Granite Company. He furnished granite for the Boston Post Office and the spandrel walls of the Brooklyn Bridge. He also had a hand in the banking and railroad business.

French died in Boston on February 22, 1903 and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.  [ad] [ph:L]

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