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BirthMonth: 5
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BirthYear: 1831
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OriginalBirthCity: Philadelphia
OriginalBirthState: PA
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OriginalBirthNation: USA
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DeathDay: 14
DeathYear: 1866
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DeathCause: killed by Indians
OriginalDeathCity: near Ft. Phil Kearny
OriginalDeathState: NE
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OriginalNotes: Written on back of stereoview at IHS: Ridgeway Glover, nephew of John J. Lewis


ancestry.com, May 12, 2002, posted by Judy :
"I recently ran across a paper listing those associated with the March from Ft. Kearney, Nebraska to Ft. Phil Kearney, Dakota Territory, (now Johnson Co. Wyoming). My distant relative Ridgway Glover was a photographer killed by the Indians in 1866. I would like any information or sources to further research this incident and his life. "
reply on July 10, 2002: I saw your message on ancestry.com. I know someone who has been researching Ridgway Glover and knows quite a bit about him. She would like to be in touch with you. Could you please email me at yiotis.gayle@nmnh.si.edu and I will give you the information and her email address. Thanks! Gayle Yiotis

http://www.andrews.edu/~closserb/215_Wagner.html, on-line paper, July 22, 2002
First Camera to Frontier Photographers by Jeanna Wagner: 
"Photography made known to America and the world just what the West was like. Unfortunately, according to Ostroff, photographers had to avoid the Indians because they were afraid of getting their pictures taken (20). Ostroff explains that the Sioux Indians believed that it was bad medicine to get their picture taken, and because of that belief they "scalped, killed, and horribly mutilated," Ridgway Glover, a photographer who unwisely left the security of one of the forts to take pictures of the Indians (20)."
Source 20: Ostroff, Eugene. Western Views and Eastern Visions. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey, 1981.
[JEH Note: unlikely unplanation of his cause of death; over 50 Indian attacks occurred in 1866 near Ft. Phil Kearny]

GEH Database:
Philadelphia Photographer, Dec. 1866, p. 371: Death of Glover, birth & death dates; 
 An amateur portrait and landscape photographer, Glover set out in May,
 1866, to photograph the Indians of all of the U.S. Territories. He
 photographed the signing of the 1866 Treaty with the Sioux Indians, as
 well as the Oghollala and Brulie Sioux. Working primarily in stereo
 views, he had hoped to also make larger views but was scalped by
 Indians in September, 1866.

Photography and the American Scene, Taft, p. 274-276:
Glover left home in summer of 1866 to "illustrate the life and character of the wild men of the prairie." Wrote series of letters to Philadelphia Photographer. Had joined an army train to Fort Phil Kearney, Montana Territory. Killed by Sioux Indians near Fort Kearney on Sept. 14. He and a companion had left the Fort to take some views. They were found scalped, killed, and horribly mutilated. Some of his negatives were published and sold by Wenderoth, Brown, and Taylor of Philadelphia.
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City: Spring Valley
State: IN
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OriginalSource: Written on back of stereoview at IHS: "Taken by Ridgeway Glover, nephew of John J. Lewis, about 1865 at Spring Valley, near Pendleton"
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