Name/Title
Crago-Spencer Album 02, Photo 06 - Felix Hughes CragoEntry/Object ID
2008.4.112Description
Carte-de-visite of Felix Hughes Crago, Company D, 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Civil War - son of Thomas Crago and Cassandra Hughes.
Handwritten inscription on album page appears to read, "Uncle Hughes."
This photograph was identified and verified after genealogical and historical research by:
1) Flickr member mcb937 and
2) David Kent Fonner, author of "All Quiet on the Border: The Civil War Era in Greene County, Pennsylvania."
Flickr member mcb937 suggested that "Uncle Hughes" may refer to Felix Hughes Crago and supplied a biographical sketch published in Gibson Lamb Cranmer's "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens," pages 825-827.
David Kent Fonner provided corroborating evidence in an analysis of the original photograph and confirmation of Crago's identity with an identified photograph of Crago that was published in Samuel Clarke Farrar's "The Twenty-Second Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Ringgold Battalion, 1861-1865," page 70.
Original, no photographer listed.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Carte de VisiteCollection
Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker CollectionMade/Created
Date made
circa 1861 - circa 1865Lexicon
Search Terms
Crago family, Military, Veterans--Civil WarOther Names and Numbers
Other Number
BAKM_AN002_0006Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Crago, Felix Hughes [1836-1917]Provenance
Provenance Detail
Crago-Spencer Album 02 - Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker CollectionNotes
The Album 2 Series photographs are in a Carte-de-Visite size photograph album that may have once belonged to Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] - wife of John N. Crago [1832-1907], daughter of William John Spencer [1805-1889] & Elizabeth Hedge [1806-1883]. The album was passed from Permelia (Spencer) Crago [1835-1910] to her son Thomas Spencer Crago [1866-1925] and his wife, Margaret Leah Hoge [1872-1966], to their daughter Leah Abigail (Crago) Waddell [1902-1962] to her daughter Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project between 2006 and 2008.
SOURCE CITATION: Crago-Spencer Album 02, Photo 06 - Felix Hughes Crago, Company D, 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, Civil War; item no. BAKM_AN002_0006, Margaret Leah (Waddell) Baker Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).