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Division of Fine Arts and Photography. He was one of the 
earliest amateur photographers in the country, and by his 
investigations contributed much to the art. Among the 
negatives made by him were many picturesque bits of scenery 
along the Potomac and on Rock Creek, views of the public 
buildings of Washington under guard at the outbreak of the 
Civil War, a panoramic view of the city of Washington 
taken from one of the towers of the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion, and many views of the military camps about Washing¬ 
ton from 1861 to 1865. 
Mr. Peale was connected with the Patent Office until June 
30, 1873, when he resigned and returned to Philadelphia. 
He spent most of the time for the next few years on the 
manuscript and illustrations for a work on the Lepidoptera 
of North America,—a subject in which he had been long 
interested—a large collection of many years’ growth. He 
prepared the illustrations in oil colors, and at the time of 
his death had about completed the work, which, however, for 
lack of financial support has never been published. He 
reached a vigorous and hale old age. Born in the last year 
of the eighteenth century, he lived through more than three- 
quarters of the nineteenth, and after only a day’s illness 
from that dread enemy of those advanced in years—pneu¬ 
monia—died March 13, 1885, in Philadelphia. 
Titian Peale was twice married. First, in 1822, he mar¬ 
ried Eliza Cecilia La Fogue, by whom he had eight children, 
five sons and three daughters. One of the latter was named 
Florida in remembrance of his trip to Florida in 1824. 
Of his five sons one was named George Ord, after the leader 
of the expedition, but only one (Francis Titian) reached 
manhood. The latter married and was survived by one son 
(Louis Titian), who died in 1896, leaving two sons and two 
daughters, great-grandchildren of Titian Ramsay Peale and 
his only surviving descendants. His secopd wife was Lucy 
McMullin, of New York city. 
The writer’s acquaintance extended over the last fourteen 
years of Peale’s life. 
45—Bull. Phil. Soc., Wash., Vol. 14. 
