to his son Edward. Personal life and death Currier married Eliza West Farnsworth in 1840. The couple had one child, Edward West Currier, the next year. Eliza died in 1843. In 1847, Currier married Lura Ormsbee. In addition to being a lithographer, he was also a New York City volunteer fireman in the 1850s. He was a Unitarian. Currier was a friend of P.T. Barnum of Barnum and Bailey fame. Currier was fond of fast horses. He kept several at his Massachusetts residence in a barn he purchased, ordered dismantled, and had delivered by horse to his estate. He died eight years after retiring, on November 20, 1888, at his home on Lion's Mouth Road in Amesbury, Massachusetts. He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Gallery References External links The Currier & Ives Foundation Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Search 1813 births 1888 deaths Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery American Unitarians American lithographers People from Roxbury, Boston People from Amesbury, Massachusetts