Portrait of Thomas Stoddard
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1860-1870
- Description
Oil portrait on canvas of Thomas Stoddard (1800-1876). Stoddard was a Yale-educated lawyer from an influential East Coast family. He gained celebrity status for living with the Seneca as a friend of the great orator, Chief Red Jacket. An imposing and influential figure, Stoddard was an early entrepreneur and first mayor of La Crosse. He promoted construction of a railroad from Milwaukee, through La Crosse into southern Minnesota.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- La Crosse County Historical Society
- Location
- La Crosse, Wisconsin
- Type
- image
- Format
- Paintings
- Rights
- All rights belong to the La Crosse County Historical Society.
- Chicago citation style
- Portrait of Thomas Stoddard. 1860-1870. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/LCCHS/id/265. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1860-1870) Portrait of Thomas Stoddard. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/LCCHS/id/265
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.mpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/LCCHS/id/265>.