Contributed by NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Description
Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow (1814-1901), the son of Stephen and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow, was a civil engineer. He worked for the U.S. Coast Survey, and the Northeast Boundary Survey.
In 1851, he married Elizabeth Clapp Porter. The couple had five children. They lived for several years after their marriage in the Wadsworth-Longfellow house on Congress Street, where he had grown up. At the time, his sister Anne Longfellow Pierce, a widow; and his aunt Lucia Wadsworth lived in the house.
About This Item
- Title: Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, ca. 1855
- Creation Date: circa 1855
- Subject Date: circa 1855
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Daguerreotype
- Local Code: LONG 4820-AWL
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1886--Family
- Longfellow, A.W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1814-1901--Portrait photographs
- Families--Maine--Portland
- Longfellow family
- Surveyors--Maine
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For more information about this item, contact:
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 876-4491
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