Stephen H Gimber

Stephen Henry Gimber (ca. 1806-1862) was a British engraver who became a prominent artist and lithographer in Philadelphia during the 1850s. He immigrated to New York City in 1828 with his wife Louisa (b. ca. 1810) and soon began engraving book plates, frontispiece illustrations, sheet music covers, and other lithographs for the Pendleton firm in the early 1830s. By the 1840 census, Gimber was residing in New York's Fifteenth Ward with Louisa and their five children. On November 7, 1843, he was naturalized in the New York County Superior Court. Shortly after gaining citizenship, Gimber moved to Philadelphia, where he was recorded as "Stephen Kimber" in the 1850 census. He should not be confused with another Stephen Gimber, an engraver living in Albany, New York, at that time. In Philadelphia, Gimber was active in the lithographic trade, designing portraiture for P. S. Duval in the late 1850s. He resided at 311 Shippen Street and later at 1336 North Thirteenth Street until his death in 1862.