Provenance:

By descent in the family of the sitters to the present owner.

Note:

Levi Childs, blacksmith, and his wife Ann Wright of Gaines, New York were the parents of Judge Henry Augustine Childs.

Childs served on the New York Supreme Court from 1883 to 1906.

The Rev.Thomas Wickes Punnett was born in Skaneateles and educated at Williams College. He served many years as the Rector of St. Timothy Episcopal Church in Catonsville, Maryland. Punnett's second wife, Laura Gertrude Roosevelt (1850-1947) was a cousin of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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