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PIC ID: 7954

Frank George Abell Jr.

American, 1844-1910

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After a brief career as a miner in Oregon, Frank George Abell Jr. began working in William Shew's studio in San Francisco in 1863. He worked intermittantly for Shew into 1871, occasionally working independently, and briefly partnering with P. B. Bain as Abell & Bain from 1869-1870. In 1872 he relocated to Unionville, Nevada, where he worked for Henry Luther before opening his own gallery. Later that year he established a headquarters at Grass Valley, California, and was a n itenerant photographer in 1876. As Abell & Welsh, with John Oliver Welsh, he photographed along the Oregon coast in 1876 and 1877. He then settled in Portland, where in 1884 his son George L. Abell joined the studio, becoming Abell & Son. By 1889 Abell returned to San Francisco where he partnered with Charles F. Priest as Abell & Priest. In 1897, he returned to Portland, where he operated as Abell & Herrin with David C. and M. E. Herrin. His retirement in 1901 was brief, as he opened a new Portland studio in 1906, and one in Tacoma in 1909. That year he was elected President of the Photographers' Association of the Pacific Northwest. He died in Tacoma in 1910.

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Frank George Abell Jr. has 20 locations.

Birth (September 20, 1844)

Roscoe, IL
USA

Active in (1862-1874)

San Francisco, CA
USA

Active in (1865-1866)

Stockton, CA
USA

Active in (1869-1870)

San Diego, CA
USA

Active in (1872)

Unionville, NV
USA

Active in (1872-1876)

Grass Valley, CA
USA

Active in (1875-1876)

Chico, CA
USA

Active in (1875)

Red Bluff, CA
USA

Active in (1876)

Yreka, CA
USA

Active in (1876-1877)

Ashland, OR
USA

Active in (1877)

Willamette Valley, OR
USA

Active in (1877)

Eugene, OR
USA

Active in (1877)

Roseburg, OR
USA

Studio or Business (1878-1883)

167 First Street
Portland, OR
USA

Studio or Business (1884-1888)

29 Washington Street
Portland, OR
USA

Active in (1886)

Corvallis, OR
USA

Active in (1888)

Colfax, WA
USA

Active in (1889-1897)

San Francisco, CA
USA

Active in (1893)

Stockton, CA
USA

Death (July 21, 1910)

Tacoma, WA
USA