Shearjashub Spooner

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Name Shearjashub Spooner		Role Writer
Died March 14, 1859, Plainfield, New Jersey, United States Books Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art

Shearjashub Spooner (December 3, 1809 in Brandon, Vermont – March 14, 1859 in Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American physician and writer.

After graduating as a physician in Middlebury in 1830 and New York City, in 1835, he became a dentist in New York.

He retired in 1858.

Works

Guide to Sound Teeth (New York, 1836)

Art of Manufacturing Mineral Teeth (1837)

Treatise on Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry (1838)

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (3 volumes, 1853)

Spooner, Shearjashub (1873). A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Philadelphia: G. Gebbie. p. 527. (1853; new edition, 2 volumes, 1865)

References

Shearjashub Spooner Wikipedia

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