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GEORGE CUBINE DEFENDER AT COFFEYVILLE , KS.
WE OBTAINED THIS TINTYPE BECAUSE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS NAME AND LOCATION WHERE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN. W.H. CLARK WAS THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN COFFEYVILLE KANSAS AT THE TIME OF THE DALTON RAID . HE ACTUALLY BOUGHT THE PISTOL THAT WAS USED TO KILL BOB DALTON. CUBINE WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE KILLED BY THE DALTON GANG DURING THE RAID. THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLED THE DALTON DEFENDERS. THERE ARE NO KNOWN PHOTOS OF THE PEOPLE KILLED BY THE DALTON GANG DURING THE RAID. THIS PHOTO IS LISTED HERE JUST AS A GOOD POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR CUBINE. HE WAS BORN IN 1856 AND DIED OCT 5, 1892 DURING THE RAID. HE WAS MARRIED TO A ALICE A. KEYTON IN 1881 . THEY HAD ONE SURVIVING CHILD OF THREE BORN , AT THE TIME OF THE RAID. THE POPULATION AT COFFEYVILLE AT THE TIME OF THE RAID WAS BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PEOPLE. THERE IS A SKETCH OF CUBINE AND THE OTHER DEAD DEFENDERS PUBLISHED IN THE COFFEYVILLE JOURNAL OCT 7, 1892 . YOU CAN VIEW THAT IMAGE OF CUBINE AT THE LINK BELOW OF THE DEFENDERS MUSEUM IN COFFEYVILLE. HE APPEARED TO BE BALDING WITH A WIDE MUSTACHE AND LONG NOSE IN THE SKETCH . AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS ABOUT 36 YEARS OLD. BREAKING DOWN THE POPULATION OF COFFEYVILLE AT THE TIME , MEN , WOMEN, CHILDREN , AGES OF MEN ETC... , WE CONCLUDED THAT MAYBE 10 MEN FIT THE SKETCH OF CUBINE IN COFFEYVILLE AT THAT TIME. WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK MORE AT HIS WIFE ALICE FOR IDENTIFICATION . SHE LIVED INTO THE 20TH CENTURY AND WE WOULD NEED TO HEAR FROM CUBINE FAMILY DECENDANTS FOR HELP IN IDENTIFYING HER.
www.coffeyville.edu/thornburg/daltondefendersmuseum/defenders.htmOUR COFFEYVILLE TINTYPE
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