Biografie von James B. IBBETSON (c.1828-?)

Birth place: England

Addresses: Philadelphia, 1849; Boston, 1850

Profession: Lithographer

Work: Peabody Museum, Salem, MA (oil painting of the American ship Kentuckian

Comments: In Boston he was listed as living with his wife Cornelia (from New Jersey) and son Wilfred (age one year, born in Pennsylvania). He may have been related to Arvah J. Ibbetson (see entry). He drew on stone The Iron Lighthouse on Minots Rock, Mass. Bay," which was printed by B.W.Thayer and Co. in 1851. Groce & Wallace refers to him as Ibbotson.

Sources: G&W; Phila. CD 1849; 7 Census (1850), Mass., XXV, 709-710. More recently, see Pierce and Slautterback, 175."