Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Gideon FAIRMAN

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FAIRMAN, GIDEON, engraver, was born June 26, 1744, in Newtown, Conn. In the war of 1812 he entered the army as captain, and rose to a colonelcy. He contributed much toward the elevation of the art of engraving in the United States. He died March 18, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was apprenticed to a firm of jewelers and engravers in Albany, and in 1810, settled in Philadelphia, as one of a firm of bank note engravers; was a captain, and then a colonel of militia and volunteers in the war 1812; in 1819, became a partner with Jacob Perkins, and went to England where he resided three years;

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