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John Wesley Jarvis
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Born 1781 • South Shields • England
Died January 14, 1840 (aged 59) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Bread and Cheese Club

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Jarvis, John Wesley: DeWitt Clinton
Jarvis, John Wesley: James Fenimore Cooper
Jarvis, John Wesley: Thomas Paine
John Wesley Jarvis: General Andrew Jackson
George Rogers Clark, portrait by J.W. Jarvis; in the Filson Club collection, Louisville, Ky.
DeWitt Clinton
Stephen Decatur
Washington Irving, oil painting by J.W. Jarvis, 1809; in the Historic Hudson Valley collection.
Paine, Thomas
James Wilkinson
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