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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 314136, member: 5833&quot;]Mumford, Jr., died in 1825, so would not have been photographed.&nbsp; It looks more like a drawing.&nbsp; McCormick&#039;s likely to have also been a picture framer who reframed it.&nbsp; Mumford was about 36 at the start of the Revolutionary War, so good chance he was involved in some way in that.&nbsp; American families are very proud of being able to trace their forebears back to then, probably once a treasured heirloom.</p><p><br /></p><p>The possibility that the OHIO stud is RR connected is seeming a bit thin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know anything about Civil War uniforms, but wonder if maybe they had something this way to ID the state the soldier was from?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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