• Born: 15 Jan 1814, Meriden CT
• Marriage (1): Bedotha Pierpont Button on 24 Dec 1835
• Died: 10 Jan 1888, Meriden CT

  General notes:

Pewtersmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1827 to Enos Hall Curtis in Meriden CT, from whom he learned spoon casting.

• Apprenticed: Ira Yale, about 1830, in Wallingford CT.

• Partnership: William Elton, about 1835, in Wallingford CT. As CURTIS & ELTON, having purchased the business of their master, Ira Yale.

• He worked circa 1835-1840 as a pewtersmith in Meriden CT ¹¹

• Example: Teapot, circa 1835, in Private Collection. H: 7"

• Partnership: Isaac Chauncey Lewis, in 1836-1838, in Meriden CT. As LEWIS & CURTISS.

• Partnership: Edwin Erastus Curtis, in 1838-1840, in Meriden CT.

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Meriden CT. Listed as a machanic.

• Partnership: Horace C. And Dennis C. Wilcox, Isaac Lewis, James Frary, William Lyman, and John Munson, in 1852, in Meriden CT. As MERIDEN BRITANNIA Co. ¹²

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in Meriden CT. Listed as a manufacturer.

• He appeared on the census in 1870 in Meriden CT. Listed as a manufacturer.

• Example: Trade card for the MERIDEN BRITANNIA Co., in 1882, in Private Collection.

• Partnership: William Worcester Lyman, in 1846-1852, in Meriden CT. As CURTIS & LYMAN.

Lemuel married Bedotha Pierpont Button, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 24 Dec 1835. (Bedotha Pierpont Button was born on 8 Jun 1810 in North Haven CT and died on 23 Mar 1912.)