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Charles Thurwanger, born ca. 1841 in New York to German parents Francis Thurwanger and Verena Kohler, worked as a lithographer
in Philadelphia ca. 1860-1866. The Thurwangers moved from New York to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where Francis operated an
eating house by 1850. The Thurwangers relocated to Philadelphia by 1855, when city directories list Francis as a trimmer working
from 92 South Twelfth Street. He also operated a picture shop in 1857. After his father's death, Thurwanger's mother, a portrait,
genre and religious painter, continued the business as a picture seller from 1711 Sansom Street in 1859. By 1860, the family
resided, without Francis, in Center City (Ward 8). Thurwanger served as a Private in Company H of the 196th Regiment of the
Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Thurwanger's brothers Joseph and John were also lithographers.
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