Rutherford B. Hayes

[DJenne]

Colorization done for Prometheus Entertainment for The History Channel's show Blood and Glory.
Deborah

 

[civilwarincolor]

Very nice. According to this though, Hayes eyes were blue. I have done some research (and I believe @Zuzah has as well) that shows blue eyes was most common in 19th century and that brown did not become dominant until the 20th century.

 

[DJenne]

Well...sigh

 

[civilwarincolor]

Well...sigh

Sorry, when it is a historical figure I always try to look them up. The rest of the image looks soooo good, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[18thVirginia]

Nice work, D_Jenne.

Your faces are really well done.

 

[DJenne]

Sorry, when it is a historical figure I always try to look them up. The rest of the image looks soooo good, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I knew I forgot something! I am kidding. Don't know how I missed that very important point. A correction has been made. Perhaps 3am is NOT a good time to do my work after-all..?? Thank you!! Thank you!

 

[DJenne]

Nice work, D_Jenne.

Your faces are really well done.

18thVirginia, Thank you so much!

 

[Rob9641]

Old R.B. was wounded at the Battle of South Mountain (and so missed Antietam) and nursed in a house in Middletown MD, down the street from where I used to live.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Great job.

 

[DJenne]

Old R.B. was wounded at the Battle of South Mountain (and so missed Antietam) and nursed in a house in Middletown MD, down the street from where I used to live.

That is so cool

 

[Rob9641]

Very nice. According to this though, Hayes eyes were blue. I have done some research (and I believe @Zuzah has as well) that shows blue eyes was most common in 19th century and that brown did not become dominant until the 20th century.

I have heard that some who say they are experts on the subject expect blue eyes and blond hair to die out almost completely in a few generations. Not sure about that myself - recessive genes are still there. What I have had trouble grasping is my great grandfather's situation - he was brown-eyed, while his father and his father's wife (supposedly his mother) were both blue-eyed (but then again his father had a reputation for having children by women he wasn't married too and then ending up raising the children, and family lore has it that his father's wife was not his mother, but that was all CW era, so who knows?).

 

[Rob9641]

That is so cool

I have also heard that Oliver Wendell Holmes, wounded at Antietam, was at least for a short while nursed in a house around the corner. Might have been the house where a man killed his wife, four kids and himself a few years ago. Middletown has a colorful past, distant and recent. (All was quiet at my house, tho.)

 

[DJenne]

It is interesting how it persists. Both my parents are dark. Brown eyes, black/brown hair. My father is of Eastern European descent, so much darker skin too. My mother's mother was fair (my avatar), her father was fair as a boy, then went to black hair in his teens. I got the green eyes and blond hair. No idea how all the resessive genes made it through..but their strength belies their name

 

[civilwarincolor]

I have heard that some who say they are experts on the subject expect blue eyes and blond hair to die out almost completely in a few generations. Not sure about that myself - recessive genes are still there. What I have had trouble grasping is my great grandfather's situation - he was brown-eyed, while his father and his father's wife (supposedly his mother) were both blue-eyed (but then again his father had a reputation for having children by women he wasn't married too and then ending up raising the children, and family lore has it that his father's wife was not his mother, but that was all CW era, so who knows?).

What I had read indicated that until the early 20th century that most of the immigrants to the U.S. came from Northern Europe which had predominately blue eyes. It was not until large numbers started coming from Southern Europe through Ellis island at the end of the 19th Century that this started to change and that it was not till the 20's or 30's (can't remember) when brown became the norm.

As for your family situation..guess it will remain a mystery.

 

[civilwarincolor]

Is it just me....I went back and had a look at the image of Hayes again and it appears that he now has blue eyes!

I think @DJenne tried to sneak one in.

 

[DJenne]

I did actually, and must have edited that out of my response. I had to do the right thing!

 

[Union_Buff]

You did a really good job on this!

 

[DJenne]

Thank you Union_Buff. It was a great image to work on

 

[Rob9641]

What I had read indicated that until the early 20th century that most of the immigrants to the U.S. came from Northern Europe which had predominately blue eyes. It was not until large numbers started coming from Southern Europe through Ellis island at the end of the 19th Century that this started to change and that it was not till the 20's or 30's (can't remember) when brown became the norm.

As for your family situation..guess it will remain a mystery.

Yep, big mystery. Great Grandpa was told that his father's wife was not his mother, but an Indian woman was. Who knows? He never knew his mother's name, whoever she was, but she was probably brown-eyed. And Lord knows how many half-sibblings Great Grandpa had running around.

 

[MRB1863]

Super job in bringing this image to life!!! Thanks for sharing with us!