Margaretta ramsey biography of abraham

In Marble Hill in the Dressing Room there are two outstanding portraits by one of the leading portrait painters of the day, Thomas Hudson (c. 1701-1779). The sitters are Abraham Acworth and his wife Margaret Acworth and are almost certainly pendants and probably commissioned at the date of their marriage in 1745.

Hudson himself had been apprenticed to Jonathan Richardson who later became his father-in-law. Joshua Reynolds was briefly apprenticed to him in 1741. Joseph Wright of Derby was also his pupil. Like Reynolds he came from Devon and until 1740 he divided his time between Devon, Bath and London, when he established himself in London.

By the 1740s, Hudson was one of the leading portrait painters in London. He was clearly influenced by the very free flowing Rococo style, which had been very much promoted in the St. Martin’s Lane Academy, run by Hogarth. The teachers there included Gravelot and Hayman, who are both represented at Marble Hill. Hudson, alongside a number of leading painters such as Hogarth, donated paintings to the Thomas Coram Founding Hospital with a view to promoting the Foundling Hospital. There are three paintings by him at the Coram Museum today including one George Handel and another of Theodore Jacobsen, the architect of Coram Hospital and the latter is regarded as one of his finest portraits. Hudson very much relied on drapery painters as did Reynolds and regularly used van Aken until the latter’s death in 1749. Hudson painted his portrait, which is in the National Portrait Gallery as is a number of his other portraits including a portrait of George II. Th

When Mary Catherine or Minnie Torrence was born on 23 October 1862, in Ohio, United States, her father, James Wiley Torrence, was 36 and her mother, Sarah McKinley, was 38. She married Robert G. Ramsey on 22 September 1886, in Logan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in McDonald Township, Hardin, Ohio, United States in 1900 and McDonald, Hardin, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 February 1953, at the age of 90.

Church. The parental family consisted of nine children, two of whom died in infancy. One daughter, Barbara, died when about fifty-seven years old. Those living to mature years were: Abel R., Joshua P., our subject, Euphemia, Hanford D., Albertus P., who died when twenty-one years old, and Sarah. Abel, during the late Civil War enlisted in the 99th Illinois Infantry, in which he served until the close, being neither wounded or captured, and safely returned, settling in Pike County, Ill., where he is now living. Albertus enlisted in a New York regiment, served under Gen. McClellan, and died near Richmond, Va., of fever, in August, 1862. His remains were laid to rest near the old home in Allegany City, N. Y. The other children are living.
   The subject of this sketch was born near Alford, Allegany Co., N. Y., Sept. 30, 1832. He was reared to manhood in the lumber districts of the Empire State, and after attending the subscription school completed his studies in the High School at Moline. When a youth of eighteen years he repaired to Pike County, Ill., on a visit, and was so well pleased with the country in that region that he never returned. Upon leaving Pike County he journeyed by rail to Detroit, thence to Chicago by canal, and down the Illinois River to Griggsville. Here he was employed by the month on a farm and whatever else he could find to do until the spring of 1852.
   Young Burdick, not yet satisfied with his explorations, migrated to Minnesota and assisted in the survey of the old State wagon road, and later crossed the lake to St. Peters River, and finally engaged in rafting lumber down the Wisconsin. We next find him back in Pike County, Ill., there having been an unusual attraction in that locality which was more fully explained on the 3d of April, 1853, when he was united in marriage with Miss Deborah Gray, the wedding taking place at her father's, in Pike County.
   Mrs. Burdick was born near Barry,