Colyer, Vincent - Commissioner of Indian Affairs
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Colyer, Vincent, 1825-1888
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Colyer was born in the Bloomingdale, New York on September 30, 1824, and grew up in a Quaker family. His faith was the center of his life and the inspiration for many of his activities. He studied art for four years in New York with John R. Smith, and then was a student at the National Academy. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1851. From then until the Civil War he painted in New York City. Colyer married Mary Lydia Hancock, a grandniece of Massachusetts G...
