Thomas Kensett Family papers

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Thomas Kensett Family papers

1856-1908 (majority 1873-1879)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1463

Correspondence between Thomas Kensett to his Baltimore fiancee, Gertrude W. Brown, during their courtship. Topics include day-to-day life, ill health, dental work, a poem about the joys of smoking, and skin problems. Also included are documents pertaining to the couple's daughter, Gertrude Kensett Vanderhoef, including her 1906 will. A sister collection may be found at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore (MS 2854).

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326313

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Kensett family

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Thomas Kensett Family.

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Thomas Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, on February 12, 1814, the eldest son of Thomas Kensett (1786-1829) and Elizabeth Daggett Kensett (1791-1876). Thomas opened an oyster and fruit canning factory in Baltimore in 1849. He became prominent in the Baltimore business community where he served as President of the Baltimore Oyster Packers' Association and Director of the Second National and Mechanics Bank. He also had in interest in railroads, owned real estate a...

Vanderhoef, Gertrude Kensett, 1877-

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Kensett family

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Kensett, Thomas, 1814-1877

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Thomas Kensett was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, on February 12, 1814, the eldest son of Thomas Kensett (1786-1829) and Elizabeth Daggett Kensett (1791-1876). Thomas Kensett (the elder), was born in England and immigrated to New York. He and Elizabeth Daggett married in New Haven, Connecticut on May 9, 1813. They had five children. Thomas was the eldest, followed by John Frederick (1816-1872), a well-known American landscape painter; Elizabeth (b.1817); Frederick (1819-1881); and E...

Kensett, Gertrude W. Brown, 1848-ca. 1906

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Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872

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Landscape painter; b. Cheshire, Conn. From the description of John Frederick Kensett papers, 1806-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78162865 John Frederick Kensett (22 March 1811 - 14 December 1872), was a noted artist of the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting. His career from 1828 to 1840, was as an engraver, having worked in several engraving firms at various times in New York, New Haven, CT, and Albany, NY. By 1840, Kensett's disenchantment with the engraving pr...