This is a GLASS photo (or Ambrotype) of my 4th Great-Grandfather, Henry Benson Thompson. This photo was in an album owned by my Great-Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Gleaton) Glover Johnson. Her parents were Daniel Forest Gleaton and Rossie Ida (Thompson) Gleaton. Rossie was the daughter of Henry Benson Thompson.
Henry Benson Thompson was born on November 20, 1849 at Alabama in Alabama United States, and died at age 52 years old on May 7, 1902. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Henry Benson Thompson.
The photography choice of the mid 1850's through the 1860's.
An ambrotype was a photographic process invented in the 1850's that replaced the daguerreotype (it was cheaper to produce an ambrotype). By the mid 1860's, the tintype became the photography of choice...