He attended Bowdoin College and he went on to become the assistant to Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) who learned how to take Daguerreotypes from Daguerre. He opened a Daguerreotype studio at 5-1/2 Tremont Row in Boston which was the same address as Southworth and worked there until 1843.
(Check: Craig's Daguerreian Registry)
Joseph Pennell
Portraits
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Genealogy of Joseph Pennell
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