Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888)

Name:

Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888)

Title:

Volunteer fireman, 1850s

Born:

03/27/1813

Birthplace:

Roxbury, MA

Died:

11/20/1888

Death Location:

Amesbury, MA

Residence:

Roxbury, MA
Boston, MA 1815-1832
Philidelphia, PA 1833-1834
New York, NY 1834-1880
Amesbury, MA 1880-1888

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Lithographer, 1834-1880

Father:

Currier, Nathaniel (1785-1821)

Mother:

Currier, Hannah (1787-1878)

Relations:

Partnership, Currier & Ives, Lithographers, 1857-1880
(Nathaniel Curier and James M. Ives)

Spouse:

1) Farnsworth, Eliza West (1818-1843), 1840
2) Ormsbee, Lura (1824-1902), 1847

Children:

Edward West, born May 20, 1841, died April 2, 1907
Eliza West, born May 17, 1843; died May 28, 1843
Walter B., born May 8, 1849, died January 27, 1850

Notes:

Michael Clapper, Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives. Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020

Frederic A. Cunningham, Currier & Ives Prints: An Illustrated Checklist. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Philip J. Currier, Compiler. Currier Records of U. S. A. and Canada. Volume V. (West Rutland, VT: Daamen, Inc. 2002), 9-12.

Peter Hastings Falk, Editor. Who Was Who In American Art: Complied from the Original Thirty-Four Volumes of American Art Annual: Who's Who In Art, Biographies of American Artists Active from 1898-1947. (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1985), 144.

George C. Groce and David H. Wallace. The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957), 159.

Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback, Boston Lithography, 1825-1880. (Boston, MA: The Boston Athenaeum, 1991), 5, 130, 131, 140, 147, 166, 169, 172, 179.

Walton Rawls, Currier & Ives' America: From a Young Nation to a Great Power. New York: Abbeville Press, 2016.

Obituary, New York Tribune, New York, NY, November 22, 1888, 2.

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY