Name/Title
Kemper, Simeon (2), & wife (1), Portrait Photos, c. 1850sEntry/Object ID
P1993.1H.127Description
Kemper, Simeon (2), & wife (1), Portrait Photos, c. 1850s/ b/w. Two photo of Simeon Kemper, early & influential settler in St. Joseph. One photo of his wife, as below.
See Museum Graphic, Summer, 1958, Vol. X, No.3. & Museum Graphic, Spring, 1955, Vol VII, No. 2 p. 13.
Kemper came to St. Joseph in late 1839. A surveyor, Joseph Robidoux asked him to help layout a town plan. Kemper's plan include wide streets & parks and did not win Robidoux's approval (which went to Frederick W. Smith). Kemper surveyed about 1/3 of the Hannibal to St. Joseph rail-line.
Kemper is known in St. Joseph for his donation of land for the first cemetery, Mt. Mora. And for the Kemper Addition to the town the boundaries being approximately Seventeenth and Twenty-second Streets, Highly to Mulberry, including Colhoun, Union, and Clay Streets.
93.1H.127 = Kemper in mid-life. Photo of photo in frame, perhaps a daguerreotype. Man with light hair, clean shaven, wearing dark suit jacket and buttoned vest, white bow tie. Head/shoulders view.
93.1H.128 = Kemper as older man, photo from Treacy Collection. Older man with white hair and full beard, no mustache, wearing dark jacket. c. 1870s.
93.1H.129 = Mrs. Kemper (Jane Ann Shortbridge or Shortage), Photo of framed photo, perhaps a daguerreotype. Woman in mid-life, with dark hair, worn in antebellum style. She is wearing a dark dress with full skirt, full puff sleeves with overhang at shoulder, large white lace collars. She is holding glasses in her hands that are resting in her lap. Seated position, shown head/knees.
Original digital scan located on History CD 03Made/Created
Studio
UnknownDate made
1850Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Kemper Family, Early St. Joseph HistoryRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Simeon KemperPerson or Organization
Jane A. Shortage KemperPerson or Organization
Jane A. Shortbridge Kemper
