Time Line for Clinton Loveridge:

1838 - born Troy, NY, 2nd child of Cicero & Gloranah (25 Dec.)

1842 - His father dies of scarlet fever (27 Oct.)

1850 - Albany, w. brother Eugene 14, sister Jane 9 per census

1859 - Has own studio

1860 - Landscape painter, census info.

1861 - Enlists in 1st Regiment of Berdan S.S. (11 Aug.)

1862 - Wounded at Battle of Hanover Court, VA, left leg amputated (27 May)

1863 - Central Park Hospital in NYC recovering
- Discharged for disability
- Pension granted $8/mo. (29 June)

1864 - Received artificial leg (11 Feb.)
- Appointed 2nd Lt., 1st Reg. Of Veterans' Reserve Volunteers
- F. H. Johnson mustered out Aug. 28, war buddy & future brother-in-law

1865 - His mother dies (6 May)

1866 - Mustered out July 3, Brooklyn, NY
- Re-applied for pension, witnessed by J.E. Loveridge (sister)

1867 - Exhibited paintings Brooklyn Art Assn. & Nat'l. Academy of Design
(through 1899)

1870 - Brooklyn, NY, age 30, boarder in home of John Bond
Fellow artist Samuel Carr in household, 461 12th St.

1888 - Living at 461 12th St., Brooklyn according to city directory

1889 - Letter offering some oil paintings with his signature

1900 - Still boarding with Bond and Carr

1912 - Declaration for Pension, act of May 11

1915 - Died of nephritis at Sunshine Sanatorium, Brooklyn, NY (19 Sep.)



Sources for Clinton Loveridge, Time Line

Birth date - 1838 - Carlson, Allan. Clinton Loveridge, American Painter, draft summary, Euclid, Ohio, 1973, p. 1.

Death date of father mentioned in letter from Virginia Bowers, Historian, City of Albany, July 18, 2002.

1850 dates listed in Albany, NY censuses and Albany City Directory.

Clinton Loveridge's enlistment date of August 11, 1862 in New York is noted on the Army of the United States Certificate of Disability for Discharge, dated January 29, 1863. Describes his physical description, where he was born, civilian life occupation as landscape painter, description of amputation, date of discharge at Station Central Park Hospital.

Claim for Pension in the State of New York, County of Albany, dated 1863, gives specific details of his wounding at the battle of Hanover Court House.

In April of 1864 he received the rank of 1st Lt.. in the 1st Regiment, Veteran Reserves Corps. Info. from Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U.S. Army, Part VIII.

Mustered out July 3, 1866, Brooklyn, NY.

Exhibited at The National Academy of Design 1867 and 1868, letter dated 2/14/71 of Carlson, Allan, op cit.

Listed in 1870 census NY, Kings County, Brooklyn, 22nd ward.

Name appears in Albany's Bicentennial Loan Exhibition from Catalog, 1886.

1888 listed in Brooklyn City Directory.

American Art Annual of 1898, 1900 and 1901 Clinton Loveridge listed.

1915 - Cemetery record of Clinton Loveridge stating death date, age, place of birth, late residence and cause, The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.

Submitted by Nancy Holguin

Clinton Loveridge painted numerous pastoral landscapes with cattle and sheep, somewhat influenced by the Hudson River School. He was born in Albany, New York in 1824, dying in Brooklyn, New York in either 1902 or 1915 according to different sources.

He was active in Albany, New York from 1857 to 1860. He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association from 1867 to 1884 and exhibited periodically at the National Academy of Design from 1867 to 1899. One of his painting locations was the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Sources include:
http://whitemountainart.com/Biographies/bio_clo.htm
http://www.bantamfinearts.com/loveridge.html
http://www.trocadero.com/mimisantiques/catalog/Fine_Art.html
http://www.bonsal-douglas.com/fineart.html
http://www.greenwichgallery.com/19thcenturyamerican/

A note added in May of 2006 by Nancy Holguin:
He appears in the 1910 census of Brooklyn, NY (Kings County). He is listed as age 76, boarder, born NY, parents born NY, occupation artist.