Background
Forshew was born in Hudson, New York on March 1, 1827. His father was a schoolteacher and former sea captain.
Forshew was born in Hudson, New York on March 1, 1827. His father was a schoolteacher and former sea captain.
Though not as well known or famous as his peer of the times, Mathew Brady, Forshew was just as prolific and served a very large customer base for many years. Forshew married Mary J. Hildreth in 1850. The couple had five children and adopted one other.
After many years in business Forshew sold or passed along the establishment to one of his employees, Captain Volkert Whitbeck, who joined Forshew"s business after being discharged from a Union regiment during the Civil War in 1863.
Volkert later would take over Forshew"s photography business in the early 1890s. Forshew died on August 8, 1895, in Brooklyn, New York, aged 68.
His obituaries noted the cause as either a paralytic stroke or apoplexy. He is buried in the Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, New New York