Born January 16, 1828 at West Kendall, New York, he married Matilda Thompson and his family grew to ten children.  He was listed in the Detroit City Directories as a portrait artist from 1877 to 1884.  He died June 15, 1884 at Detroit, Michigan.

Source:
Artists of Early Michigan, by Arthur Hopkin Gibson, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1975.

Information courtesy of Edward Bentley, researcher in Lansing, Michigan