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William Brenton Boggs

William Brenton Boggs (1809 - 1875) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, New York.  William Boggs is known for Landscape and coastal view sketches, Pacific survey images.

Following are comments relative to the spelling of the artist's middle name, which sometimes is listed as Benton but which because of these entries has been changed to Brenton.

These comments are from Sandy Rowe:

I came across the name W. Brenton Boggs researching the name Ellen CARTER, and have noted the following conflicts:

# In the database "Washington, DC Marriages, 1826-50", she is listed as Ellen Williams Carter, and he is W. Brenton Boggs, m. 10/10/1842.

# In the database entitled, Encyclopedia of American Biography, another individual is listed, George BRENTON Boggs, again with the 'R' in the name - possibly a son or a nephew, given the middle name. Date of birth: Jan 8, 1844, in Somerville, NJ - less than a year and a half after the Boggs/Carter marriage. Reference to Herrinshaw's Encyclopedia of America Biography of the Nineteenth Century, page 126.

# In the database entitled, "Biography & Genealogy Master Ind   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4719 characters.]  Artist bio

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