Minerva Cornell

American, born ca. 1832

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In 1860 Minerva Cornell lived in Lodi, New York, where her husband, Cornelius V. D. Cornell, was a farmer. In 1866, they both were photographers there. The following year the pair were photographers in Waterloo, New York. Throughout the 1870s, Cornelius alone was listed as a photographer. He was active in the Baptist Church, and in 1880 he published Cornell's Key to Bible Study, or The Bible Taught as a Science. He was listed in Millport in the census that year, an author. It also noted that he was paralysed. Minerva's whereabouts then are unknown. She was living in Ovid, New York in 1906, when Cornelius died in the town of Millport.