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Born in England, Downing became local photographer
By Christopher Duckworth - For The Times-Gazette
This is a full-page albumen contact print of Thomas Burge Ayres (1832-1906) was taken by William H. Downing.
Courtesy photo
Courtesy photo
Editor’s note The following is a story compiled by Christopher S. Duckworth, a longtime Ohio Historical Society employee with family ties to Hillsboro and Greenfield, about late Hillsboro photographer William Henry Downing.
William Henry Downing, a painter and photographer, was born in Mullion, Cornwall, England on Aug. 12, 1842. Before his first birthday his parents, Joseph and Christiana, sailed from Liverpool aboard the Columbus bound for New York City. On Jan. 9, 1843, the ship docked and the Downing family disembarked. They traveled first to Illinois and then to Ohio.
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