built a working replica of Lawrence's camera and used it to rephotograph San Francisco from about the same location (but from a helicopter, not a kite), 100 years after the earthquake. The rephotograph was actually taken by Mark Walsh, George R. Lawrence's great grandson, who rode in the helicopter, held the camera, and clicked the shutter. Marriage, remarriage, and death In 1909, while he was away on an expensive and frustrating adventure attempting to take aerial photographs of wild animals in British East Africa, his wife found that he had been having an affair with one of his secretaries. Upon his return, he fled to California, taking his sons with him. He then turned from photography to aviation, building an aircraft at a factory in Chicago. He would be granted nearly a hundred patents for aviation-related devices. He divorced his first wife, Alice Herendeen, in 1913 (with whom he had had two children, Raymond Welcome Lawrence and George Lee Lawrence), and married Adele Frances "Della" Page in 1916. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and was the daughter of Henry J. Page, an architect. George Lawrence was 48 years old and Della was 22 years old when they married. They had four daughters: Clara Antoinette, Virginia Lee, Ruth Adele, and Martha "Louise" Lawrence. Lawrence's aircraft company folded in 1919. He died in 1938, aged 70, and funeral services were held at St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. He was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Manteno, Illinois. Timeline 1900 Photograph Chicago & Alton Railway's Alton Limited Train 1906 San Francisco, California earthquake ruins 1908 Reconstruction pictures of San Francisco, California References External links Yesterday's News blog 1901 newspaper account of Lawrence's plan to shoot panoramic photos for the Minneapolis Tribune 1868 births 1938 deaths American photographers American people of German descent Artists from Chicago People from Kankakee, Illinois People from Ottawa, Illinois Commercial photographers Aerial photographers People from Manteno, Illinois Catholics from Illinois