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John Thurwanger, born ca. 1834 in New York to German parents Francis Thurwanger and Verena Kohler, worked as a lithographer
in Philadelphia in 1860. 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's brothers Joseph and Charles were also lithographers.
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