John Clark Blackman

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1821 to John Starr Blackman in Danbury CT ¹

• He was a partner from about 1849 to 1858 with Frederick Starr Blackman in Bridgeport CT as J. C. & F. S. BLACKMAN. The partnership is not listed in directories and the brothers maintained their seperate shops. ⁴

• He worked from about 1859 to 1870 as a silversmith in Bridgeport CT as J. C. BLACKMAN & Co ⁴

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

John married Betsey Bishop. (Betsey Bishop was born on 27 May 1810 in Danbury CT and died on 3 May 1905.)