| Title |
Pendleton, John B. |
| Date |
1798-March 10, 1866 |
| Description |
John B. Pendleton, premier Boston lithographer, born in 1798 in New York (according to census records), was a partner in the
early Philadelphia lithographic firm Pendleton, Kearny & Childs 1828-1829. Before entering the trade in Philadelphia, Pendelton
trained in Paris and returned to Boston in 1825 with the necessary supplies and equipment. In 1826 he partnered with his brother
William in the first lithographic establishment in Boston. In 1828 he left for Philadelphia where he partnered briefly with
Francis Kearny and C. G. Childs before he relocated to New York and established his own lithographic firm in February 1829.
Pendleton continued in the trade in New York printing all genres of lithographs into the 1830s as well as worked as a carpenter
and proprietor of a planing mill into the early 1850s.
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Pendleton was married to Hester (ca. 1810-1883) in 1846 following the death of his first wife in 1842. He resided in New York
from 1829 until his death on March 10, 1866. In 1850, he headed a New York household of over 20 persons, including Hester
and four Pendletons aged 39-27 years born in Massachusetts. In 1860, he headed a household that included his wife and five
servants.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Pendleton, Kearny & Childs. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860 |
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Groce & Wallace, 497 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Pierce and Slautterback, 146-148 |
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Peters, 312-323 |
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WWWAA, 2565 |
