William C. Goodridge was the free son of a slave mother and a white father.
In 1827, when he was a barber
in York, Pennsylvania, he married Evalina Wallace of Baltimore, Maryland.
William and Evalina began a family and a
business partnership that brought both success and tragedy.
Their son Glenalvin was the first
photographer in the family. He took this picture of his father, William,
sometime before 1862.
The woman in this pre-1851 daguerreotype
is probably Evalina.
