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ID: 1605
CATNUM: 1727
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NameFirst: Wattles ~James Miles
NameLast: Wattles
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BirthYear: 1812
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OriginalBirthCity: Manlius
OriginalBirthState: NY
OriginalBirthCounty: Onondaga
OriginalBirthNation: USA
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OriginalDeathCity: Evansville
OriginalDeathState: IN
OriginalDeathCounty: Vanderburgh
OriginalDeathNation: USA
Parents: James Otis Wattles and Mrs. Susan (Hannah) Miles Simonds Wattles
Children: Ada Wattles Quigley, James Otis Wattles, John Beardsley Wattles, and William Stuart Wattles
Spouse1Name: Beardsley ~Mary
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:46:22 PM
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LastModifiedDate: 10/30/2021 5:46:22 PM
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ID: 1605
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StartYear: 1828
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OriginalNotes: PARENTS: Judge James Otis Wattles and Mrs. Susan (Hannah) Miles Simonds Wattles.  Susanna d. in New Harmony, James O. subsequently remarried Mrs. John Wilsy (Martha Deborah Ashcraft) in 1829.  James O. gave lectures on law in Maclure's School of Industry twice a week;  in 1831, Mme Fretageot mentions tavern operated by Judge Wattles' wife;  James O. buried in Maple Hill Cemetery.  James O. was one of 7 committeemen for a permanent community in 1826 (New Harmony);

Find A Grave #57222796: James Miles Wattles, birth unknown, death Oct. 1865, buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY; son of James Otis Wattles (1783-1833) and Hanna Susan Miles Wattles (1786-1828); son John Beardsley Wattles (1845-1906) [The 1865 death date conflicts with his niece's memories, I think.]

CHILDREN: 4 children: Ada Wattles Quigley, James Otis Wattles, John Beardsley Wattles, and William Stuart Wattles.
EDUCATION: New Harmony School, art lessons from Charles Alexandre LeSueur in 1828, worked with the camera obscura

CENSUS INFORMATION: 1830 appears with father and family in town of Harmony; 1855 NY State Census appears in Brooklyn

The History and Practice of the Art of Photography, Henry Hunt Snelling (New York: G. P. Putnam), 1849, pp. 10-13

The Photographic Art-Journal:
Jan. 1851, p. 46: Article "Photography on Paper and on Glass" by T. A. Malone, From the London Art-Journal, p. 46 refers to applying  method [a coating of silver salts?] to wood-block for wood engravers.  Editor [presumably Snelling] footnotes this with: We understand that Mr. Wattles of this city, of whom we have spoken on a former occasion, has invented a process for impressing an image upon "blocks of wood for wood engravers," the result of which has met his most sanguine expectations.  We should be pleased to have it communicated for our columns.--Ed. Pho. Art-Journal.
V. II, No. 2 (August, 1851), p. 73, footnote: mentions that Mr. Wattles of New York "informs us that he has succeeded in obtaining an impression [of the moon] the size of a half-dollar perfectly distinct." --Ed. [Henry Hunt Snelling]
American Art Journal, "A Piano Prodigy Who Turned His Attention to Science," Sept. 19, 1896, pp. 370-71: article about James Otis Wattles musical career, now working at Lembke's optical studio. "Mr. Wattles, who is the son of [James Miles Wattles] the discoverer of the process that renders photographs permanent, invented an absolutely perfect instrument for making an exposure in an infinitesmal fraction of time by the introduction of the shutter."  Devoted time to scientific instruments.
OriginalWorkerTypes: experimented with photography in 1828
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OriginalOccupation: scenepainter (beginning 1838), clerk (late 1840s) fr
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:46:22 PM
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City: New Harmony
State: IN
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CreatedDate: 10/30/2021 5:51:09 PM
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County: Posey
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