• Born: 4 Mar 1806, Boston MA
• Marriage (1): Mary Ellen Walker on 10 Sep 1826 in Dorchester MA
• Died: 26 Sep 1895, Concord MA

  General notes:

Gold beater

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed in 1821 to Louis Anselm Lauriat in Boston MA
  

• He worked circa 1824 as a gold beater in Dorchester MA first as a journeyman, then in his own shop after 1826. Compelled by health to move to the country, he began spending more and more time in horticultural experiments. By 1850, he had produced a stable hybrid of a local wild grape, which he named "Concord." It and other varieties he developed brought him fame, but little money and he died as an impoverished invalid in the Concord Home for the Aged. His tombstone reads "He Sowed, Others Reaped"

• He appeared on the 1850 census taken at Concord MA, listed as a gold beater.

• He appeared on the 1855 census taken at Concord MA, listed as a gold beater.

• He appeared on the 1860 census taken at Concord MA, listed as a gold beater.

• He appeared on the 1870 census taken at Concord MA, listed as a gold beater.

Ephraim married Mary Ellen Walker on 10 Sep 1826 in Dorchester MA. (Mary Ellen Walker was born on 17 Feb 1810 in Boston MA and died on 5 May 1891 in Medford MA.)