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After many years in business Forshew sold or passed along the establishment to one of his employees, Captain Volkert Whitbeck, who joined Forshew's business after being discharged from a Union regiment during the Civil War in 1863.Volkert later would take over Forshew's photography business in the early 1890s.Forshew died on August 8, 1895, in Brooklyn, New York, aged 68.