Jesse A. Reeves was born Aug. 6, 1833 in Ohio and died June 4, 1908 in Michigan.
Interesting this is the same background studio set as in several other tintypes in this album. For some reason in the back of my mind I think Jesse lived in Kansas for awhile. But I am incredibly rusty on all my genealogical facts.
Jesse was an uncle to Jennie Reeves, who kept this album. He was an older brother to her father, Walter Francis "Frank" Reeves. The fact she did not name her aunt suggests this couple were not really a big part of her world when she was growing up.
But like so many other photos in this album, it is an interesting portrait even without any background information. There is a certain magic to these personal visual portals into the 19th century.
