John Lawson Westervelt

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1839 to Nicholas Bogert in Newburgh NY

• Apprenticed c 1843 to James Bogert in Newburgh NY

• He worked from circa 1848 to 1880 as a silversmith in Newburgh NY
Listed in the 1864 city directory at 146 Water Street. ¹⁵

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Newburgh NY, listed as a silversmith.

John married Catherine Gorham on 17 Apr 1850 in Newburgh NY. (Catherine Gorham was born in 1830.)