Original CDV of Reverend Rufus Lumry (1800-1862). From online: Reverend Lumry was a prominent abolitionist circuit preacher and church organizer in the Wesleyan Church after splitting with the Methodist Episcopal Church over slavery. He was a founding trustee of the Illinois Institute, later Wheaton College, one of the first institutions of higher education in Illinois to admit African-American students, under the leadership of fellow adoptive Princetonian John Cross and, later, Lucius C. Matlack. Cross and Lumry also worked together to found Amity College (1855-1913) in College Springs, Iowa. From Wikipedia: Rufus moved to Colorado with his son Andrew in 1861. After several months there, late in the fall of that year, he joined a group of twelve carrying provisions to miners in the Rocky Mountains, thought to be starving. As it turned out, the miners had moved onward, and winter set in early, forcing the erstwhile rescue party to remain in the mountains through the winter. Rufus and a man from Iowa were descending from Quail Mountain in the Collegiate Peaks section of the Sawatch Range on June 21, 1862, when Rufus tried to cross Cache Creek on some driftwood, which gave way and trapped him in the frigid meltwater.
CDV is approximately 4" x 2.5" with rounded corners and, "Rev Rufus Lumy, Drowned in Colorado" in period pen on the front, otherwise in VG antique condition.