• Born: 7 May 1806, Springfield MA
• Marriage (1): Mary Alvord on 6 Jul 1842 in Salina NY
• Died: 21 May 1894, Springfield MA

  General notes:

Silversmith and jeweler

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark.

• He worked in 1831-1870 as a silversmith and jeweler in New York City NY as A. RUMRILL & Co. Listed as a silversmith at 264 Broadway in Miller's 1867 edition of "New York As It Is." ¹⁸

• Example: Cake basket, circa 1835, in Private Collection. H: 3" (of bowl)
  w: 8 1/4"
  wt: 22 oz

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in New York City NY. Listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in New York City NY. Listed as a jeweler.

• Example: Receipt, in Nov 1869, in Winterthur Library. For a case of engraved flatware sold to Alfred Peck Edgerton.

• He appeared on the census in 1870 in New York City NY. Listed as a jeweler.

• Example: Receipt, on 21 May 1870, in Winterthur Library. For a case of engraved flatware sold to Alfred Peck Edgerton.

• Partnership: George Benjamin Jaques, in 1871-1878, in New York City NY. As RUMRILL & JAQUES, with a shop at 274 Broadway.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in New York City NY. Listed as a retired jeweler.

• His obituary was published in The New York Times on 23 May 1894 in New York City NY. Alexander Rumrill died suddenly Monday night at his residence, 47 West Thirty-second Street. He was eighty-eight years old. Until about twenty years ago, when he retired from business, Mr. Rumrill was one of the best-known jewelers in the city. He had been in that business since he was twenty years old, at which age he came here from Springfield, Mass., his native place. Starting as a clerk with E. Stebbins & Co., in Chatham Street, then a favorite thoroughfare, he rose to be junior partner in that firm, and eventually the business became his own under the name of A. Rumrill & Co. It was then on Broadway, near Park Place, and afterward for many years at the northwest corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. Upon his retirement the business passed to a firm of jewelers since located in Broadway near Union Square, one of the members of which had been with Mr. Rumrill as clerk and junior partner. Mr. Rumrill led a very quiet life after he gave up business.

Alexander married Mary Alvord, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 6 Jul 1842 in Salina NY. (Mary Alvord was born on 4 Feb 1822 in Salina NY and died on 20 Jan 1912.)