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I thank you, Japflakes for cleaning it up, and looking up photographers. He looks much better. Yes that's the photographer I'm looking for. Clinton Cain.
Since posting this question I did more research and found him in the 1900 census living in Springfield, OH. which is about 30 miles from Dayton. He isn't listed in the Dayton City Directory until 1906.
Meaning this photo, IF it is still inside it's original frame, was taken after 1905? The photo was unlabeled and the sitter's identity uncertain. The date the photo was taken was necessary to narrow down my search for his identity.
Also since posting this question, I have stumbled onto another copy of the same photo on Ancestry, attached to a different man than I suspected him to be, in a different branch of ancestors. There is no details given, just the photo attached to a profile. Messaged to person who shared it - but no reply yet.
Thanks again for the help.

Thank you so much Ian and japeflakes. Huge improvement. Greatly appreciated. 

The group photo at his feet has always intrigued me too. His fellow army veterans.
His service: 1857-1860 1st battalion 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot. 1860-1866 97th Foot.  1866-1878 3rd battalion Rifle Brigade. Held ranks from Private to Sergeant. Served in India and Yemen (Aden).

Thanks again for trying LM and John! and everyone else who contributed.

I will try to investigate a little more on my own, something may turn up some day.

Thanks LM
I have found enough chain of evidence to trace Gwendoline marrying James Rumball in Hatfield, Herts.

Poor Mary Ann Titterton though... she had so many children, and none of them took her in when her husband Joseph passed? I just cant believe it.

But to go back to the beginning again and find her before her marriage....
The Nightingale family - who are so involved with this family - all the way back to the marriage in 1871.
If we think maybe Joseph and Mary Ann met in 1871 in Reigate, Surrey when he worked there as a cook?
I have found other Nightingales in Reigate, builders, just not Charles William Nightingale and Mary Jane, or Jennie or John.... but there must be a connection between them, the place, and the Nightingales in Tottenham, where the marriage took place? John Nightingale is a builder too

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