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Waterman Lilly Ormsby was born on September 9, 1809, in Hampton, Connecticut.
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Waterman Lilly Ormsby was born on September 9, 1809, in Hampton, Connecticut.
Waterman Ormsby received a public-school education in Hampton and at an early age became an apprentice in an engraving establishment. In 1829 he was a student in the National Academy of Design in New York City.
During his early life Waterman Ormsby lived at various times in Rochester, in Albany, where he engraved over his own name, and in Lancaster, Massachussets, where he worked for the firm of Carter, Andrews & Company. Finally he settled in New York City, where he became the proprietor of the New York Bank Note Company and one of the founders of the Continental Bank Note Company.
During the first quarter of the nineteenth century the process of bank-note engraving was cheapened and facilitated by the introduction of machinery, and by the end of the century hand-craftsmanship had been almost entirely superseded. Ormsby represented a curious combination of the two techniques. He was a versatile and accomplished inventor of machinery to facilitate the processes of engraving, but he was bitterly opposed to the complete replacement of the artist-craftsman. He held that notes should be engraved as a unit upon a single plate, with careful craftsmanship exerted on the design and interdependence of the composition. The counterfeiter would thus be foiled "not because he does not know how the work is done, but because he can not do it. " Ormsby was particularly bitter about the claims set forth for "Patent Green Tint" as a safeguard against spurious imitation. "Indeed, " he wrote, "unless there is some interposition of Divine Providence, the prospect seems to be, that passports to Heaven will, eventually, be printed in 'Patent Tint. ' But unless they are more secure against counterfeiting the 'narrow way' will be terribly crowded. "
Ormsby was not frequently so urbane about what he considered charlatanry. He displays himself in his writings as a disgruntled eccentric, sensitive about his craftsmanship and childish about his enmities. He considered himself discriminated against in business, but the forces of industrial change and reorganization were against him. He was an excellent line engraver, however, and was called upon for a great deal of work despite his conviction of persecution. His designs for notes were in wide use by the government at the time of the Civil War.
Ormsby was the author of several pamphlets, among them Cycloidal Configurations, or the Harvest of Counterfeiters, and of a volume on papermoney engraving entitled A Description of the Present System of Bank Note Engraving (1852).
Ormsby died in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of seventy-four.
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Waterman Ormsby married Julia Ann Brainard in 1830 and they divorced in 1846.