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Parents: John and Eliza  Stevenson) Shoaff
Children: Mary, Frederick Barnett Shoaff
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OriginalNotes: CENSUS INFORMATION: 1860 Census, Jay Co., Penn Twp., Pennville:  John A. Shoaff, artist, PP $100, b. PA, living with 23 yr. old Sarah McGill, b. PA and her son Frank, 7, b. PA. Living near Samual A. Shoaff and family, 34, miller, b. PA

ancestry.com, 1870 Allen County, Ft. Wayne, IN
John A. Shoaff, 30, b. PA, artist; 
living with Samuel Shoaff, age 43, b. PA, miller and family

ancestry.com, 1880 Allen County, Ft. Wayne, IN, 182 E. Wayne St.
John A. Shoaff, 43, b. PA, artist, both parents b. PA
Susan A., 30, b. PA
Mary, dau., 5, b. IN; Frederick, son, 2, b. IN
Malinda Walker, servant, 18, b. IN

MARRIAGE / John A. Shoaff to Jennie Hudson. Indianapolis Journal 9-22-1862 p 2, c 5

Ancestry.com. Allen County, Indiana Directory, 1890. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Allen County, IN, 1890. Fort Wayne, IN: M.M. Graham, 1892: John A. Shoaff, [no occupation], Washington Twp.

 Enlisted as a Private on 29 September 1864
Drafted in Company C, 44th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 29 September 1864
Mustered out on 25 July 1865  
  Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. (INRoster) Published in 1865-66 by Holloway

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, 25 Oct 1916, p. 1 and 7
Long article about John A. Shoaff and his history with photography. He spoke before an Indiana photographers group. COPY (http://newspaperarchive.com/fort-wayne-weekly-sentinel/1916-10-25/page-7?tag=indiana+daguerreotype&rtserp=tags/indiana-daguerreotype?psi=38&pci=7&ndt=by&py=1839&pey=1977&pr=30)

Shoaff Family Tree posted on ancestry.com by AnnSCollins (viewed Nov 2012)
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/531269/person/1072524507
John A. Shoaff, b. Oct 1836 PA; 1850 living in Bullskin, Fayette PA; m. Susan R. Barnett in Fort Wayne on 16 June 1870; listed in Fort Wayne in 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920, died in Fort Wayne; Children Mary and Frederick Barnett.

Find A Grave #81647777
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OriginalSource: 1864-65 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 409

The Photographer's Friend, July 1871, p. 135:
Exhibiters at NPA Convention in Philadelphia: "Shoafes" of Ft. Wayne had 2 of the largest solar prints in exhibit. extraordinarily sharp for their size-little of the coarse appearance so usual in such uncommon large solar prints.

1879-80 Williams & Co. Indiana State Directory, p. 369

1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1027

1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1027 (John Schoaff)

The Photographic Times and American Photographer, May 1881, vo. XI, No. 125 (New York : Scovill Manufacturing Company)
"Second Annual Announcement of the Photographers' Association of America." p. 4 at end of volume. List of members: J. A. Shoaff, Fort Wayne, Ind.

1882-83 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1088

1884-85 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1063 (J. A. Shoaff)

1887-88 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1330

1890 Polk's Indiana Gazetteer, p. 1206 (J. A. Shoaff)

Fort Wayne, 1913: p. 114 The Parrot Studio and Art Store is successor of longest established studio in Ft. Wayne, having bought out the Barrows studio in 1901, which in turn had by purchase acquired the negatives and business of the Shoaff studio back in 1892. The studio was a photograph studio only until 1906 when the Art Store was added. Interior photo of studio on p. 115.

The Fort Wayne Gazette, August 24, 1894, image 4
[Mr. Ed Perrey] was in the employ of Mr. Shoaff for many years.
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OriginalSource: 1869-70 Fort Wayne City & Allen Co. Directory, p. 178, John A. Schoaff, photograph art gallery, Keystone Blk, over Palace of Fashion, bds. Samuel Shoaff

Ft. Wayne Daily Democrat, August 23, 1870, p. 1
ad: Art Galleries: J. A. Shoaff, over Palace of Fashion

Fort Wayne Daily News, Feb. 22, 1875: mentions Mr. Shoaff, photographer over Palace of Fashion, besieged by customer
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Name: John A. Schoaff
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OriginalSource: 1884 Kramer's General Business Directory
p. 103 Fort Wayne Photographers: J. A. Shoaff, 21 and 23 w Berry

Fort Wayne Sentinel, Nov. 2, 1889, p. 5
Adv. For J. E. Waugh, D.D.S., Dental Office in Shoaff's Gallery, 21 W. Berry St.

Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana), August 2, 1892, p. 4
Photo Gallery Remodeled. J. J. Wolfe, a skilled photographer from Lancaster, Ohio, has remodeled and refitted the old Shoaff gallery on West Berry street and made it one of the tastiest and pleasantest galleries in Indiana. [Note that Wolfe died in September 1892.]
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