The Little-Bockhofer-Canaday Family Photograph Collection, 1889-1929.

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Attributed to George Morton Little and various photographic studios

Title: The Little-Bockhofer-Canaday Family Photograph Collection, 1889-1929.

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection: 48 photographic items, including 33 cabinet cards, 10 mounted prints, 3 photographic prints and 2 real photo postcards.

Location Number: 013PC3

Scope and Content Note 

The Little-Bockhofer-Canaday Family Photograph Collection is housed separately in one original photo album (Album #68) and one folder held in the Small Groups files of the Filson Photographic Collections. The collection contains 48 photographic prints of various formats, primarily cabinet cards. Many of the photographic prints are housed in the original photo album containing 34 cabinet cards, one 1.5” x 2” print and one signed, printed card with floral design. The remaining 13 prints are housed individually in the small group file.

Members of the three families lived throughout Wayne County, Indiana, as well as other locations in Southern Indiana and Western Ohio, and were photographed in the towns of Economy, Richmond, Middleboro, Hallon, and Hagerstown, Indiana. Several photographs of the Canady (Canaday) family were taken in studios in California.

Biographical Note 

The Little, Bockhofer, and Canaday families resided primarily in Wayne County, Indiana and nearby counties throughout the late 19^th and early 20^th Centuries. The collection documents the descendants and relatives of Isaac Little (1834-1907). Little was a farmer and served in the 84^th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. He married three times, first in 1855 to Nancy Ann Coffin (1834-1859), with whom he had three children: Rebecca June Little, Thursa Little, and Evaline Little. Little married Sally Coats Little (1844-1872) in 1862 and they had six children: Alistus, Charles, Clarisa Jane, George Morton (1868-1916), Minerva, and Elmer Elsworth Little (1872-1872). His third wife was Elizabeth Millet Little (1842-1904), whom he married in 1874. They had no children together.

The Bockhofer, Canaday and Alexander families are related to the Little family by marriage. Clarisa Jane Little married Edward H. Bockhofer (1869-1942) on 31 March 1894, and they had six children: Nellie, Anna Marea, William, Isaac Howard, Verlan Alistus, and Florence Elizabeth. Minerva Little married Clementine Alexander of Jefferson, Preble County, Ohio on 28 September 1895. Anna Marea Bockhofer married Lyndsey E. Canaday on 21 July 1917.

Photograph List