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- This article is extracted and lightly edited from an entry in American Engravers upon Copper and Steel, Part I, Biographical sketches, illustrated. Index to engravings described with check-list numbers and names of engravers and artists, by David McNeely Stauffer, Grolier Club of the city of New York, 1907, page 197, which is in the public domain because it was first published in the United States before 1926.