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| | Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he became a noted bank note engraver who was a prime influence in merging bank note companies into a single entity. At age 18, he apprenticed to Asaph Willard of the Hartford Graphic and Bank Note Engraving Company. He then worked as an engraver in New Haven and in 1825, moved to New York for the same purpose. He was active in the formation of the National Academy. From 1827 to 1840, he worked in London and then returned to New York to concentrate on bank note engraving. In his later years, he did watercolor painting and copied the Italian masters. |
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