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Title Lovitt, Abraham M.
Date February 1847-August 17, 1919
Description Abraham M. Lovitt, born February 1847 in England, worked as a lithographer for the Philadelphia firm Longacre & Co. about 1874 and Pfeil & Golz about 1883 and 1884. Lovitt arrived in the United States about 1869, lived in Pennsylvania by the early 1870s and relocated to New Jersey by the end of the decade. In 1874, he lived at 177 South Sixth Street (Philadelphia) and during the 1880s, he resided at 750 Mount Vernon Street in Camden, N.J. By the 1900 census, he resided in New Brunswick, but returned to Camden by the 1910 census. He worked as a lithographer until his death on August 17, 1919. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Lovitt married the English-born Mary (b. ca. 1844) in 1869 and with her had several children; the eldest born in Pennsylvania ca. 1872. Lovitt was also a member of the Lithographers' Union of America and traveled to Belgium in 1880 according to New York passenger lists.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Golz, Julius, Longacre & Co., and and Pfeil, Herman.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1880, 1900, 1910
Camden City Directory, 1883-1884
Library Company of Philadelphia research file
Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1874
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 19, 1919