Moncure and Ellen Dana Conway

After finishing his degree at Harvard Divinity School, Moncure Conway was ordained a minister of the prestigious First Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C., but his sermons were so fervently antislavery that he was dismissed in 1856. Later in the same year he became minister of the First Unitarian Church of Cincinnatti, Ohio, and in 1858 wed Ellen Davis Dana. The two are photographed here for a cabinet card produced in London years after they had left war-torn America behind, while Conway served as the minister of South Place Chapel.