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Small black and white photograph of Charles Aamodt, reprint of an original carte de visite. Studio portrait of a young man wearing a suit and tie and holding a hat in one hand, the other resting on the back of a chair placed next to a table with a book on it. Blank background.
Charles Thoren Aamodt was born in 1859 in Wilson Street, Whanganui. He left Whanganui for Wellington in 1877 to take a position at Messrs Buckley & Co. Upon leaving was presented with a ring from his comrades in the Wanganui Rifles, of which he was a long-standing member and an excellent shot. He married Mary Josephine McKeegan on 28th April 1882 in Wellington and they have five children together:
Leah Mary 1892, died aged 4 weeks
Elizabeth May 1895
Charles Herman 1896
Mary 1898, died aged 14 months
William 1900
Charles passed away on 8th July 1917 at his residence on Jessie Street in Wellington.
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