Lucian Rose Foster

Lucian Rose Foster (12November 180619March 1876) He would later serve as member of the central correspondence committee for Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential campaign, and was also admitted to the Council of Fifty on 1 March 1845. bringing the daguerreotype shortly after its introduction with him, setting up a daguerreotype studio on Fulton Street in August 1844. The Mormon photojournalist and writer Nelson B. Wadsworth speculated that Foster learned how to daguerreotype under Samuel F. B. Morse, although this has been disputed for lack of evidence. Foster released his first advertisement in the Nauvoo Neighbor on 14 August 1844 which said that he could produce "an image of the person, as exact as that formed by the mirror transferred to, and permanently fixed upon a highly polished silver through the agency of an optical instrument." However, some of the photographs attributed to him are, properly speaking, of unknown authorship. He was also a member of the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. He also disappears from Church records after the Nauvoo era. Foster moved to Brooklyn by 1870, but apparently died in Salt Lake City, only about six years later in 1876.