Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Pomeroy Stone and Hettie

Reason: Unique picture of Charles Pomeroy Stone (1824–1887) with his daughter Hettie. Stone taught geography, history and ethics at West Point, then fought in the Mexican War, left the army because he felt it didn't pay enough to support his family, became a banker in San Francisco, then surveyed Sonora where he briefly was the acting consul, moved to Washington D.C., was reputedly the first volunteer officer in the Union Army, was Abraham Lincoln's security chief at his inauguration, lost a thousand men to the Confederates at Ball's Bluff, was disgraced and imprisoned (but never convicted), subsequently cleared, went back briefly to the Army of the Potomac, after the war worked for a mining company in Virginia, then went to Egypt where he was --for thirteen years-- the chief of staff for Ismail the Magnificent and his successor; then came back to the States and was engineer for the Florida Ship Canal Company. And then he was the Chief Engineer for the construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal and concrete foundation. Imagine the stories Hettie could tell.
Articles this image appears in: Charles Pomeroy Stone
Creator: unknown photographer; restored by Michel Vuijlsteke

Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 13:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support GerardM (talk) 15:28, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Lovely work. Durova^Charge! 17:08, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support tempodivalse [☎] 00:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Charles P. Stone2b.jpg MER-C 11:16, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]