NO. 7 SOIION S PORTRAITS OF INDIANS — EWERS II 



railway and Highway No. lo over the Coeur d'Alcnes. During tlie 

 1890's the name St. Regis Pass appears to have replaced Sohon 

 Pass on maps of the region. 



Gustavus Sohon married Juliana Groh, April 29, 1863. Shortly 

 thereafter he took his bride to San Francisco, Calif., where he estab- 

 lished a "Photographic and Ambrotype Gallery," at 683 Market 

 Street. Among his sitters was the famous Jesuit priest, Father 

 De Smet, founder of the St. Mary's Mission to the Flathead Indians. 

 An original Sohon negative of this subject is now in the collections 

 of the Montana State Historical Society. In 1865 or iP>66 Sohon 

 gave up his photographic business and returned to \\'asliington. 



He retained his residence in Washington for the rest of his life, 

 operating a shoe business and devoting much of his time to his 

 growing family. Mr. Sohon was the father of eight children, five of 

 whom lived to adulthood. His three sons attained distinction in the 

 professions of law, medicine, and chemical research. Henry W. Sohon 

 was a President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. 

 Dr. Frederick Sohon accompanied Robert Peary as physician on 

 tiiree Arctic expeditions. Dr. Michael Druck Sohon isolated the 

 chemical phenalthalein while at Johns Hopkins University. The only 

 surviving child of Gustavus Sohon, Dr. Elizabeth Sohon, is a prac- 

 ticing physician in the city of Washington. Prof. Frederick W. 

 Sohon, S.J., a grandson, is director of the world-famous Seismological 

 Laboratory of Georgetown University. 



Mr. Sohon never revisited the Northwest and the scenes of his 

 decade of exploration between 1853-62. Nevertheless, his personal 

 correspondence and the considerable number of copies of Government 

 documents pertaining to relations with the Indians of the Northwest 

 among his personal papers show that he retained an active interest 

 in the welfare of the tribes he had known so well. His daughter 

 recalls that members of the Flathead Indian delegation to Washington 

 under Chief Chariot in 1884 paid a visit to Mr. Sohon at his home. 

 The only time she saw her father smoke was when the pipe was 

 passed around at the beginning of that meeting of old friends. 



Gustavus Sohon died in Washington, D. C, September 3, 1903, 

 at 78 years of age. He was buried in Mount Olivet Ccmeter)'. 



Three years before Mr. Sohon's death. Hazard Stevens' life of his 

 father, Isaac I. Stevens, was published. The majority of the illus- 

 trations in this two-volume work are halftone reproductions of 22 

 original pencil portraits and 8 scenes drawn by Private Sohon during 

 his service under Governor Stevens in the treaty-making operations 



