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THBQuarter Plate Ambrotype of Western Newsman Horatio Nelson Maguire, Taken in San Francisco
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Quarter plate ambrotype, housed in a paper case with penciled identification under the plate H.N. Maguire's Picture / San Francisco Cal.
The man is most likely Horatio Nelson Maguire (1837 or 1838-1903), who was born in Kentucky but spent his early adulthood working for various papers in the West, especially in Montana. According to a June 2011 article in The Montana Pioneer, titled "Montana's Pioneer Editor," Maguire began his career as a typesetter for the Detroit Free Press in 1854, but traveled widely over the next few years, working for publications in Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Nicaragua, and Salt Lake City. He worked briefly for San Francisco's Visalia Delta circa 1859-1860, which matches up nicely with the age of the ambrotype and Maguire himself in the image. Sometime in 1860 he moved to Portland, OR, to serve as editor of the Daily Morning News, but the young newspaperman soon continued on to Lewiston and Boise, ID, then to Helena, MT, where he served as secretary of the first Territorial Convention in 1866.
Maguire founded the first newspaper in Bozeman, the Democratic Party-affiliated Pick & Plow, in late 1869, but closed it in 1871 to establish a paper in Ely, Nevada, before returning to Montana to start a family in 1873. He seemed to be ready to settle and became deeply involved in local affairs, being elected a probate judge and city commissioner within a year of his return, but once again uprooted himself upon the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. In Deadwood, Maguire befriended Calamity Jane, and his articles about her helped propel her to national fame. In 1883 he returned to Bozeman, where he was held in such esteem that he was given the honor of delivering the keynote address at the ceremonies marking the arrival of the NPRR in the city. Neither the respect of the community nor the raising of a family would cure his wanderlust, however, and Maguire continued to move about the country until his death, which followed an extensive speaking tour on behalf of William Jennings Bryan. His obituary stated: "That Judge Maguire was not always absolutely correct in his arguments and conclusions nor wholly practical in all of his theories may be here admitted without detriment to the general character of the man…for he possessed, not only a vivid imagination, but a penetration into the future, and an optimistic turn of mind which enabled him to see the bright side…and realize the sunshine of cherished hopes and highest human aspirations…."
Primary source: http://www.mtpioneer.com/2011-june-pioneer-editor.html
Grave & photograph: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57966820
Scattered small specks. Case separated at the spine.Condition
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