Lemuel Punderson

Lemuel Punderson
Born
Lemuel Swift Punderson

(1824-10-20)October 20, 1824
DiedOctober 11, 1910(1910-10-11) (aged 85)
Occupations
  • Engraver
  • printer
Spouse
Mary Fuller
​
(died 1904)​
Children2

Lemuel Swift Punderson (October 20, 1824 – October 11, 1910) was an engraver and printer in the United States.

Family

Members of the Punderson family were among New Haven's earliest settlers. John Punderson was recorded as the last living in the city in 1904.[1]

Career

Punderson worked in New York City and then New Haven, Connecticut.[2] Yale University has a collection of his papers.[2] He did engravings from daguerrotype photographs.

Lithograph by L. S. Punderson & Son in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College
Engraving of Asahel Grant by Punderson from a daguerrotype

The book on the history and antiquities of New Haven he and John Warner Barber published in 1856 included an engraving of John Davenport.[3] He also made an engraving of Yale College campus in New Haven showing trees and buildings on the campus. Punderson made an 1855 engraving of Matthew Fontaine Maury.[4]

Personal life

Punderson married Mary L. Fuller, daughter of Benjamin Fuller, of Wilbraham, Massachusetts. They had two sons, Samuel F. and Henry F. His wife died in 1904.[5][6][7]

Punderson died in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • History and antiquities of New Haven, Conn., from its earliest settlement to the present time. With biographical sketches and statistical information of the public institutions, &c., &c. by L.S. Punderson and John Warner Barber, New Haven (1856)

References

  1. ^ "New Haven Colony Historical Society, Manuscripts: MSS 135" (PDF). New Haven Museum. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-07-28. Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  2. ^ a b "Collection: Lemuel Swift Punderson papers | Archives at Yale".
  3. ^ "Portrait of John Davenport · My cms". www.bethanyconnecticuthistory.com.
  4. ^ "Matthew Fontaine Maury". NYPL Digital Collections.
  5. ^ "Mrs. Lemuel S. Punderson". New Haven Morning Journal. 1904-06-14. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-09-20 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  6. ^ Dolliver, Louise Pearsons (1897). Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Vol. XVIII. p. 324. Retrieved 2024-09-20 – via Archive.org.Open access icon
  7. ^ "Samuel F. Punderson". The Springfield Union. 1938-01-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-09-20 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon