Joseph Benrimo

Children

1. Joseph Henry Benrimo 1874 – 1942
2. Barrow C. Benrimo 1876 -
3. Donah Elizabeth Benrimo 1880 --
4. Harvey Samuel Benrimo 1885 – 
5. Thomas Daniel Benrimo 1888 – 1958

Notes

From # Taos County, New Mexico Obituaries - B - Thomas Benrimo. ... The artist was 19 when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed his early drawings and notebooks of his studies, and forced the family to move to New York. ... Benrimo was born in 1887, the youngest of five children in a privileged San Francisco family, according to Strohs catalog text.Benrimo began to draw at an early age, learning from Chinese friends in his neighborhood. But his father's financial failure forced the boy to work to help support the family. Still, Benrimo had time to nurture his childhood interest in astronomy into a fascination with Blake, Dante, psychic phenomena and the occult. Living in tenement housing in New York, Benrimo developed tuberculosis, which plagued him into middle age. ... "

Links

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