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Friend, Norman |
Date |
1814- February 25, 1888 |
Description |
Norman Friend, a map lithographer and engraver, born in Denmark about 1814, worked in Philadelphia ca. 1840s-1888. Friend
immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s. By 1844, he resided in Philadelphia and began the naturalization process.
He was married to Mary (b. ca. 1830) by 1850 and resided most of his professional career on the 100 and 200 block of North
Second Street. In 1849, he started his own firm at 141 (i.e. 400 block) Walnut Street, which he removed to 80 (i.e., 332)
Walnut Street in 1851 preceding his partnership with Jacob Aub in the firm of Friend & Aub. After Aub's departure in 1860,
Friend continued to operate at the address under his own name until his death.
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Throughout his career, he specialized in map work, beginning with "Sidney's Map of Twelve Miles around New York" (1849) from
surveys by James C. Sidney, and the "Map of Philadelphia" published as part of the Philadelphia City Directories of 1849 and
1850. During the 1860s and 1870s, he worked on many of the Midwestern county maps and atlases published by Lewis H. Everts
and his various associates (including Duval & Hunter, later Thomas Hunter) bringing standardization to the county atlas format.
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Friend died of heart disease on February 25, 1888 with the listed residency of 529 Vine Street. He was buried in Ocean Grove,
N.J.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Duval & Hunter; Everts, Lewis H.; Friend & Aub, and Hunter, Thomas. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860 and 1870 |
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Groce & Wallace, 244 |
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Last, 188 |
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Philadelphia City and Business Directories 1851-1880 |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, February 28, 1888 |
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WWWAA, 1201 |