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Tiffany, Charles Lewis

founder of the firm of Tiffany and Company, was born Feb. 15, 1812, in New York. He is a founder of the New York Society of Fine Arts and of the Union League club.

He has also been a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. He is a prominent representative of the sixth generation of descent from Squire Humphrey Tiffany of England.

The family lived for several generations in Massachusetts. In 1867 he established the present house of Tiffany and Company of New York city, which is to-day the leading jewelry house in America.