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Walt Whitman Archive says: Thomas Faris… became the proprietor of Root’s Daguerrian Gallery on lower Broadway in New York in 1857 after the original owner, Marcus A. Root, was seriously injured in a train accident. From 1844 to 1857, Faris owned the Melodeon Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was credited with introducing the daguerreotype to the state. While in Cincinnati, he partnered with photographer Ezekiel Hawkins to establish Hawkins’ Gallery of the Pioneers.