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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Duke Kavanaugh, post: 916783, member: 20544&quot;]Lorenzo J. Hatch</p><p><br /></p><p>Life and Times.</p><p>Born: Hartford, New York 1857</p><p>Died: Peking, China 1914</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b443/TheDukeK/subscreen_e2_photohist11_2.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In Lorenzo&#039;s early life he was a painter. </p><p>Here is a painting he did.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sketch on the Potomac</p><p>1883 painting of waterscape and a boat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b443/TheDukeK/19301238_1c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Later in his life he became an engraver for the US Bureau of Engraving. His most notable works are some of the most beautiful bills we have ever made. The $2 and the $5 Educational Notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>His part of these was the backs, more specifically the portraits of the people on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The $2:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b443/TheDukeK/132px-18962rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine are the portraits on them. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The $5:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b443/TheDukeK/5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lorenzo engraved the back portraits on the $5 Educational note of the two people General Philip Sheridan and General Ulysses S. Grant. These were put on this bill only 31 years after the civil war. That must have upset some Southerners.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Grant portrait was also used on FR259 to 265</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1044.photobucket.com/albums/b443/TheDukeK/grant.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both of these two notes are in the &quot;100 Greatest American Currency Notes&quot; book written by Bowers and Sundman.</p><p>The $2 comes in at: #11</p><p>And the $5 comes in at: #5 of course</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Later in 1908 Lorenzo went to Peking,China on a 6 year contract to establish The Chinese Bureau of Engraving and Printing. He and William Grant were the two responsible for the designs and vignettes on the early Chinese paper money and stamps. His work there is very famous as well and was an integral part of starting their Bureau. He died in 1914 while still working there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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