Horace Bonham

Place: York

Born: 1835

Death: 1892

Biography:

Horace Bonham was a 19th-century York County Renaissance Man. He was a lawyer and newspaper owner and artist, among many other things. His work with the brush seemed to be his consuming passion, and his work is shown today at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonham was born in York, Pennsylvania, on November 26, 1835, and died there on March 7, 1892.