Wisconsin Historical Society

Primary source

Images

Oneida Chief Daniel Bread in 1856

Daniel Bread

View document

About this record

Daniel Bread was the head-chief of the Wisconsin Oneidas. Born in New York, Bread moved to the Oneida settlement above Green Bay in 1823, where he died in 1873. Painters Samuel Brookes and Thomas Stevenson traveled to Green Bay to paint portraits of residents, completing this painting of Bread in 1856.

Citation

Brookes, Samuel and Stevenson, Thomas. "Daniel Bread." Oil portrait in the Wisconsin Historical Museum.