Name/Title
Huber, John B., St. Joseph Jeweler, Portrait Photo, c. 1860Entry/Object ID
P1992.1H.39Description
Huber, John B., St. Joseph Jeweler, Portrait Photo, c. 1860. b/w. Photo of framed portrait photo of older man with dark hair, mustache, wearing dark 3-pieced suit, with watch chain at vest, white shirt and patterned tie. "J.T. Needles, Photographer, 311 Felix St., St. Joseph" at bottom of photo. See Museum Graphic, Winter, 1956, Vol 8, No. 1.
Huber, born in Germany, came to St. Joseph in 1851 with John Albrecht and opened a watch & jewelry store in the City Hotel, NE corner of Main & Jules Streets. The next year they moved to the Edgar House and added guns, knives to the line to sell to the emigrants crossing the plains. John married the daughter of Joseph Kuechle, who had settled in St. Joseph after coming here first to join a wagon train, but cholera broke out and they did not go along. That wagon train was attacked by Indians and no one survived. Mary's brother Edward was part of the Eugene Field wedding party.
In 1870, Huber lived in a home he had built at NE corner of Eighth & Francis.
Original digital scan located on History CD 0.Made/Created
Studio
J.T. Needles PhotographersDate made
1860Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
JewelersSearch Terms
St. Joseph Photographers, Needles, J.T., Photographer, WatchmakersRelationships
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Person or Organization
Huber, John B.