| Title |
Boerum, Simeon |
| Date |
ca. 1830-October 16, 1894 |
| Description |
Simeon Boerum, born in New York ca. 1830, worked in Philadelphia as a wood engraver, lithographer, and printer 1850s-1880s.
Predominately a wood engraver given his known extant work, Boerum had advertised in "The Philadelphia Shopping Guide & Housekeeper's
Companion for 1859" as a "Designer and Engraver on Wood, Lithography, Printing and Die Sinking, In All Its Branches, No.
310 Chesnut St., above Third, opposite the Franklin House, Philadelphia." In addition, three years earlier, he designed and
printed the lithograph "Awful Accident on the North Pennsylvania Rail Road on Thursday July 17th 1856." Boerum also exhibited
engravings at the 1854 Franklin Institution Exhibition of American Manufacturers.
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During the 1860s and 1870s, Boerum lived in South Philadelphia (745 South Front Street and 531 Pierce Street) and Camden,
New Jersey. By 1880 he had settled in Philadelphia on 177 Richmond Street (North Philadelphia) with his wife Martha (b. ca.
1840) and several children. By 1885, he again was living in South Philadelphia at 1826 Reed Street. Boerum died on October
16, 1894 and was interred at the Philadelphia Crematory.
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Boerum may also be the Simeon Boerum listed in Civil War Service Records, who enlisted in Company L, 2nd Cavalry Regiment
New Jersey on September 15, 1864. He mustered out June 29, 1865.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1856-1885 |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 1894 |
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U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 |
