• Born: 20 Feb 1826, Darien NY
• Died: 16 Apr 1898, Detroit MI

  General notes:

Jeweler and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• He worked circa 1850-1859 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Detroit MI as L. P. DURKEE & Co, with a shop at 55 Woodward Avenue. He had begun working in the shop of Henry Beebe Marsh. When Marsh moved east to New Jersey, he bought the shop, but soon failed.
  

• Advertised in the Polk's Detroit City Directory (Detroit MI), 1856,

• He worked in 1859-1870 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Pontiac MI

• He worked after 1870 as a jeweler and watchmaker in Detroit MI both on his own and as a salesman for other houses.

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Detroit MI, listed as a watchmaker.