'Chough'

A carte-de-visite portrait of a dog identified by an inked inscription verso as 'Chough / Aged 9 years & 10 months.' Another inscription gives the date, 28 February 1868.

Photographed by J. C. M. Stone of Tenby.

Despite his first initial, this is Isaac Chambers Maddox Stone. Born at Tenby in 1846, he was the son of George Stone, a farmer. He appears on the 1871 census as a 'Photographer' living with his parents at Pill Field, Tenby. The following year he married Louisa Anne Arscott at Stoke Bishop in Gloucestershire. According to The South Australia Police Gazette (8 September 1880), on 1 June 1880 Isaac became a constable in the Adelaide police force. In 1885 he emigrated to the United States and in 1894 he became a naturalised American citizen. He appears on the 1910 US census, aged 62, living on Third Avenue in Brooklyn. He was now a widower but was once again a photographer, employing two live-in assistants. On 13 July 1912 he remarried in Brooklyn; his new wife's name was Bartha Bachofen. He died, aged 68, in Brooklyn on 21 December 1914.