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JOHN B. PENDLETON

Name: John B Pendleton                                                                     
Born: 1798                                                                                 
Died: 1866                                                                                 
                                                                                           
John B Pendleton born in New York City, New York, USA. He worked with                     
Charles Willson Peale, travelled to France (1824), where he learned the                   
technique of lithography, and established a lithography business in Boston (1825)         
and then in New York City (1829). After selling the business to his pupil,                 
Nathaniel Currier (1834), he became a carpenter and established a planing mill (1835-1851).
He is recognized as the founder of the lithographic process in America.                   
John B Pendleton died on 1866