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Framed oil portrait of Harriet Taylor Goodhue Williams (1799-1874), which is not signed and undated, but by her nephew, Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813-1884). The label on the back reads: "Harriet Taylor Goodhue, Mother of Caroline Williams Putnam, was born in Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 1800. Married Dr. Stephen West Williams at same place Sept 1818. Lived many years in Deerfield, Mass. Died at Laona, Ill. ??" Born in South Hadley, Massachusetts to Captain David Chandler (1770-1838) and Clarissa Goodhue Chandler (1788-1891), Harriet Taylor Goodhue's sister, who married in 1803, Joseph Goodhue Chandler trained early as a cabinetmaker, but later, between ages 14 and 19, travelled to Albany, NY, to study painting with Williams Collins (1787-1847) who was listed in Albany directories from 1827-1832. His earliest portraits date from about 1837, and are primarily those of famly members. In 1840, Chandler married Lucretia Ann White (1820-1868), an established painter in Hubbardson, Mass., and they likely collaborated on a number of portraits over the years. Chandler then traveled as an itinerant painter, primarily in northwestern Massachusetts, until he established a studio in Boston in 1852. The Chandlers returned to Hubbardston in 1860, where they lived and worked for the rest of their lives. The donor, Dorothy Williams Hartigan, was a descendant of Dr. Stephen West Williams who married Harriet Taylor Goodhue in 1818. Harriet was the daughter of Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849) who was a surgeon in the United States Army at Fort Constitution, N.H., for 21 years before retiring to Deerfield by 1822. Stephen and Harriet had four children, one of whom, Dr. Edward Jenner Williams (1823-1881), studied medicine with his father and and then moved to Laona, Illinois, where he married Orilla Nancy Webster in 1856; Edward Jenner died in Charles City, Iowa. Two of their three sons and their daughter lived to adulthood - Dr. Henry Smith Williams (1863-1943), Dr. Edward Huntington Williams (1868-1944), and Harriet Goodhue Williams Myers (1867-1949) who wrote a privately printed book (1945), "We Three, Henry, Eddie and Me: Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams, Harriet Williams Myers." Dorothy Williams Hartigan was the daugher of Henry Smith Williams and Florence Whitney Williams, and first cousin of Helen Myers Curtis and her sister, Neva Myers Brown, who were the daughters of Harriet Williams Myers and Raymond Myers. Both Mrs. Hartigan and Mrs. Curtis gave Historic Deerfield a number of Williams/Goodhue family pieces.
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