Everard Benjamin

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1820 to Barzillia Benjamin in Bridgeport CT ¹

• He worked from 1829 to 1864 as a silversmith in New Haven CT as E. BENJAMIN & Co, taking over his father's shop at 98 Chapel Street. ³

• C 1834: An early disciple of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Perfectionist utopia, The Onieda Community.

• Advertised in the Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Bangor ME), 18 May 1861, as part of a groupendorsement of the Waltham Watch Company.

• He was a partner from circa 1865 to 1874 with George H. Ford in New Haven CT as BENJAMIN & FORD. ⁴

• Tradecard, c 1870
Private Collection

• Tradecard, c 1870
Private Collection

Everard married Esther B. Merwin on 21 May 1833 in Orange CT. (Esther B. Merwin was born on 16 Feb 1811 in Orange CT.)