Name: Custer, Edward L. (1837-1881)
Title: Exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, 1848-1869
Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Member, Lafayette Lodge, F. A. M.
Other Names: Custer, Edward Luke
Born: 01/24/1837
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Died: 01/09/1881
Death Location: Boston, MA
Residence: Basel, Switzerland 1837-1847
Syracuse, NY 1847
Manchester, NH 1848-1860, 1863-1864
Boston, MA 1864-1881
Nationality: Swiss/American
Occupation: Ornamental Painter
Artist
Decorator, Manchester Locomotive Works
Father: Custer, Emil
Mother: Tallman, Nanette
Spouse: (1) Ruth A. Porter, May 2, 1864, Manchester
(2) Mary L. McClure, 1880
Notes: "Art and Artists of Manchester," Manchester Historic Association Collections, Volume IV, Part 1, 1908, 116-117.
George F. Willey, Editor. State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. (Manchester, New Hampshire: The New Hampshire Publishing Coporation, 1903), 380-381.
Henry Porter Andrews, Compiler. The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor. Volume II. (Saratoga Springs, New York: C. W. Ball, 1893), 448.
Diana Korzenik, Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth-Century American Dream. (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1985), 99.
Marriage Record, Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives
Marriage Record, Vital Records, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Death Record, Vital Records, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Obituary, Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, Massachusetts, January 10, 1881.
Obituary, Boston Journal, Boston, Massachusetts, January 10, 1881.