Background
Gerhardt, Karl was born on January 7, 1853 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Gerhardt, Karl was born on January 7, 1853 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
He attended Phillips School in Boston. By 1870 he was apprenticed to a house painter in Chicopee, Massachusetts, where he later became a machinist at Ames Foundry.
He showed considerable talent in mechanics, and later became a designer of machinery at Hartford, Connecticut. In 1874, he went to California. He worked for a spell as chief machinist at the Pratt and Whitney Machine Tool Company in Hartford and pursued sculpting in his leisure hours.
In 1884 he exhibited at the salon “Echo,” a statuette, and “Eve"s Lullaby,” a life-size group.
Gerhardt"s wife died in 1897. They had two children.
In 1908, he was living in New Orleans, and by 1920 he had moved to Shreveport, Louisiana.
Married Josephine McClellan.