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| Edward Lepper (circa 1837 –1915)
An “artist-of-all-trades” in Tiffin, Ohio, Edward Lepper (circa 1837-1915, for more than thirty years painted everything from stage scenery to fancy carriages. His true calling did not emerge until 1880, when he was elected Seneca County coroner. Assured of an income and plenty of free time, he set up his easel in the local morgue and began to paint the great historical events of Ohio and of the world at large: The Execution of Seneca John (1904); Colonel Crawford Burned at the Stake (1906); The Great Mechanicsburg Flood of 1882 (1909); and even Dewey’s bombardment of Manila .
He remained in office thirty-four years, painting all the while, “meticulously, one leaf at a time,” as a friend recalled. Eleven of his striking canvases from the old morgue are on display at the Seneca County Museum in Tiffin.
Source:
Mary S. Haverstock. Published in Timeline, by the Ohio Historical Society, March – June 2003. (Submitted by Edward Bentley, Art Researcher from Lansing, Michigan)
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