Researching George Catlin
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 713 people with the Catlin surname? In that year Catlin was ranked number 2867 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Catlin on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Catlin and the Catlin Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 1116 people with the Catlin surname in the UK? Catlin is now ranked number 3000 for popularity in the UK. |
Catlin Family Tree Databases
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Catlin Forums
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Explore the Ellis Island Database for information on George Catlin. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called George Catlin
George Catlin
George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American adventurer, lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West.
Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.
Source: George Catlin, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaGeorge Catlin (political scientist)
Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. He preached the use of a natural science model for political science. McMaster University Libraries holds his correspondence archive and the body of some of his works. He had two children, one of whom was the politician and academic Shirley Williams.
Source: George Catlin (political scientist), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
George Catlin (musical instrument maker)
George Catlin (1778-1852) was a prominent American maker of musical instruments. He worked in Hartford, Connecticut from 1799 or earlier until about 1814, when he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to his advertisements in Connecticut newspapers he made pianofortes, harpsichords, violoncellos, guitars, bassoons, clarinets, "hautboys" (oboes), flutes, and fifes.
Catlin designed and manufactured an instrument of his own devising called a "patent clarion." This was a bassoon-shaped bass clarinet, similar to but apparently designed independently of similar instruments developed starting in the late 18th century in Europe. Catlin appears to have been one of the first successful manufacturers of bass clarinets in the world. An alto clarinet, unsigned but of similar design to Catlin's bass clarinets and very probably by him or one of his students, has survived; made circa 1820, it is one of the first known examples of the instrument.
Source: George Catlin (musical instrument maker), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Catlin
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