J. Dougherty
J. DOUGHERTY, photographer, Bucyrus, is the son of Edward and Abigail (McComb) Dougherty. and was born in Cannonsburg, Penn., April 14, 1826. He went to school until his 16th year, when he commenced to learn carriage painting and followed it for ten tears. About this time, he learned daguerreotyping in Washington, Penn., and worked at the business some eight years. In 1859, he came to Bucyrus, and established a gallery in a building where the Sims House now stands. He has been located in his present place, Quinby Block, for fifteen years; here he is doing a splendid business, and is a skillful photographer paying much attention also to the copying and enlarging of pictures in water-colors and India ink. He has exhibited at the county fairs and has always outstripped his competitors. He is the oldest resident photographer of the place. He was married June 29, 1848, to Miss Annie Butts, of Washington Co., Penn. and three children are living, the fruits of that union: Ella, Blanche and Lulu; Laura died at the age of 5. Mr. Dougherty is a prominent member of the M. E. Church, and a Trustee of their organization.
From History of Crawford County and Ohio, Baskin & Battey, Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1881