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Governors--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Portraits, Group--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Statesmen--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Albumen prints
Public officers
Abolitionists
Social reformers
Women authors
Capitols
Reconstruction (US history, 1865-1877)
Personal Subjects
Appel, Mary Louisa Avery, 1869-1949.
Apperson, R.
Apperson, R., Mrs.
Archer, Mary Simpson Brown, 1821-1894.
Avery, Louisa Cameron, 1846-1928.
Barber, James
Barnum, B. A., Mrs.
Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900.
Bentis, A. W.
Bentley, A. J.
Bentley, A. J., Mrs.
Blessing, William T.
Blossom, Major
Brown, J. S., Mrs.
Brown, Margaret
Burroughs, Rosa
Comly, D., Miss
Corey, L. B.
Craighead, J. B.
Craighead, J. G.
Dewees, Miss
Edwards, Charles H.
Elliott, Master
Elliott, Miss
Elliott, Mrs.
Ellis, A. G.
Fay, H. H., Miss
Fondley, Mrs.
Foster, Charles H., 1835-1904.
Foster, G. B.
Fuller, E. D., Dr.
Gamble, J. B.
Gibbs, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Clarkson), 1831-1874.
Grant, A. G.
Grant, A. G., Mrs.
Green, H. P.
Hawkins, A. B.
Hill, W. H., Jr.
Huntington, A. F., Miss
Huntington, E.
Jones, S.
Jones, S., Mrs.
L'Engle, Mrs.
Lusk, S. C.
Mann, M. R., Miss
Marden, A. A.
Martin, H. H.
Mawbey, C. Frederick, 1844-1876.
Montague, W. S., Dr.
Mott, James, Captain
Myers, Selim Woodworth, 1818-1881.
Pendleton, E. G.
Perkins, Thomas C., Mrs.
Perkins, Thomas James, 1817-1896.
Porter, William S., Dr.
Porter, William S., Mrs.
Richards, A. L.
Rogers, C. B.
Rogers, C. B., Mrs.
Rogers, E., Mrs.
Rogers, T. A.
Runyon, Elias
Runyon, Elias, Mrs.
Sammis, J.
Scott, George Washington, 1829-1903.
Scott, W. I.
Scranton, H. S.
Searle, H. W.
Slusser, William Pitt, 1825-1892.
Smarden, John A., Mrs.
Smith, G. M.
Smith, M. H.
Smith, Martha
Smith, Sarah
Stearns, Marcellus Lovejoy, 1839-1891
Stiles, B. F.
Stiles, B. F., Mrs.
Stowe, Eliza Tyler, 1836-1912.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Stowe, Hattie (Harriet Beecher), 1836-1907.
Thompson, S., Miss
Tibbitts, Annie
Tutt, C. P.
Tutt, Master
Tutt, Miss
Van Valkenburg, J., Judge
Williams, J. J.
Williams, R. S.
Wilson, W. R.
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Governor Stearns is in the center front on the steps and Mrs. Stowe is the lady in black to the right on the 6th step.
Other visitors and attendees included: J.S. Adams and son, Jacksonville; E.G. Pendleton, West Virginia; B.F. Stiles and wife, New York City; T.A. Rogers, New Jersey; L.B. Corey, New York; Rev. J.G. Craighead, New York; J.B. Craighead, New York; Miss D. Comly, Philadelphia; Col. G.W. Scott, Savannah; A.G. Grant and wife, Dublin, Ireland; Mr. C.P. Tutt, Phildelaphia; Miss Tutt, Philadelphia; Master Tutt, Philadelphia; Wm. T. Blessing, Brooklyn; G.M. Smith, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Mrs. W.H. Avery and daughter, Jacksonville; Dr. E.D. Fuller, Peekskill, New York; A.A. Marden, Campton, New Hampshire; H.S. Scranton, Live Oak, Florida; W.I. Scott, Bridgewater, New York; S. Jones and wife, Dansville, New York; C.B. Rogers and wife, Plainsfield, New Jersey; J. Sammis, Jacksonville; E. Huntington, Rochester, New York; Miss A.F. Huntington, Rochester, N.Y.; Mrs. H.B. Stowe, Mandarin; Miss Eliza Stowe, Mandarin; Miss Hattie Stowe, Mandarin; Charles Beecher; Mrs. Thos. C. Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts; Miss M.R. Mann, Boston, Massachusetts; Mr. C.F. Mawbey, Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. Elias Runyon, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Judge J. Van Valkenburg, Michigan; Dr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Porter, Brighton, Mass.; Mrs. L'Engle, Jacksonville; Mrs. Elliott, Gainesville; Miss Elliott, Gainesville; Master Elliott, Gainesville; Miss Annie Tibbitts, Jacksonville; Miss Rosa Burroughs, St. Augustine; Miss H.H. Fay, Boston, Massachusetts; Capt. James Mott, Long Island, New York; M.H. Smith, Yonkers, New York; Miss Martha Smith, New York City; Miss Sarah Smith, New York City; Mrs. Fondley, Elizabeth, New Jersey; H.P. Green, Battleboro, Vermont; Mrs. J.S. Brown, Battleboro, Vermont; Mr. R. Apperson and wife, Kentucky; Miss Dewees, Jacksonville; Dr. W.S. Montague, Bennington, Vermont; Mrs. John A. Smarden, Boston, Mass., S.C. Lusk, Yonkers, New York; Mrs. B.A. Barnum, Albany, New York; A. G. Ellis, Wisconsin; A.W. Bentis, Brooklyn, New York; A.J. Bentley and wife, New York City; James Barber, Jacksonville; G. B. Foster, St. Albans, Vermont; W.H. Hill Jr., Boston, Massachusetts; Mrs. E. Rogers, New York City; Miss S. Thompson, New York City; H.W. Searle, New York City; A.L. Richards, New York; H.H. Martin, N.Y. City; Maj. Blossom, Boston; Mrs. J.T. Archer; Miss Mag. Brown; Treasurer Charles H. Foster; Superintendent J.C. Gibbs (African American man on the steps at top right); Tallahassee Mayor C.H. Edwards; Col. J.J. Williams; W.R. Wilson; W.P. Slusser; R.S. Williams; J.B. Gamble; Dr. A.B. Hawkins; S.W. Myers; T.J. Perkins.

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Grant, A. G. Governor Marcellus L. Stearns greeting Harriet Beecher Stowe on the steps of the Capitol. 1874. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326249>, accessed 25 August 2025.
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Grant, A. G. Governor Marcellus L. Stearns greeting Harriet Beecher Stowe on the steps of the Capitol. 1874. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326249>
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(State Archives of Florida/Grant)
