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Amos Currier

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Amos Currier

Birth
Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
16 Mar 1908 (aged 71)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA
Plot
Section K / 22N 35
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Photograph and print importer and retail, picture frame maker, sign painter, publisher; active San Francisco 1865 - c. 1895.
Amos Currier and his partner, Daniel Winter, were proprietors of Currier and Winter in San Francisco from at least 1865 to 1875. The company was a combination sign painting and picture frame making shop, as well as an importer and retailer of photographs, ambrotypes, projector transparencies, engravings and lithographs. Around 1866, Currier and Winter published the Pacific Wash Book, Business Directory and Receipt Book. By 1869 the firm was located at 211 Kearny Street, where it remained until at least 1871. The Store served as a sales outlet for the work of Carleton Eugene Watkins during at least part of his 1871-74 tenure at 22 and 26 Montgomery Street.
Following the dissolution of the Currier and Winter partnership in 1875, Amos continued as a San Francisco "picture dealer" until at least 1895, By 1900 his occupation was listed as ädvertising."
Photograph and print importer and retail, picture frame maker, sign painter, publisher; active San Francisco 1865 - c. 1895.
Amos Currier and his partner, Daniel Winter, were proprietors of Currier and Winter in San Francisco from at least 1865 to 1875. The company was a combination sign painting and picture frame making shop, as well as an importer and retailer of photographs, ambrotypes, projector transparencies, engravings and lithographs. Around 1866, Currier and Winter published the Pacific Wash Book, Business Directory and Receipt Book. By 1869 the firm was located at 211 Kearny Street, where it remained until at least 1871. The Store served as a sales outlet for the work of Carleton Eugene Watkins during at least part of his 1871-74 tenure at 22 and 26 Montgomery Street.
Following the dissolution of the Currier and Winter partnership in 1875, Amos continued as a San Francisco "picture dealer" until at least 1895, By 1900 his occupation was listed as ädvertising."

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Remains removed about 1930 from old Masonic Cemetery, San Francisco, CA

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  • Created by: Cathy Key
  • Added: May 16, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90242031/amos-currier: accessed ), memorial page for Amos Currier (8 Feb 1837–16 Mar 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90242031, citing Woodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA; Maintained by Cathy Key (contributor 47795443).