Artist
Jeptha Wade
American, 1811–1890
Jeptha Wade was an American American Folk Art painter. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art, most of them oil paintings. Jeptha Wade was born in Romulus.
Jeptha Homer Wade (August 11, 1811 – August 9, 1890) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph. Wade was born in Romulus, New York, the youngest of nine children of Jeptha and Sarah (Allen) Wade. He made the first Daguerreotypes west of New York, was a portrait painter, and moved to Adrian, Michigan, in 1840 before developing an interest in the telegraph.
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