Lewis Cary

Lewis Cary was an American silversmith active in Boston.
Cary was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was apparently apprenticed circa 1811–1815 to Churchill & Treadwell in Boston and provided additional silver for Boston's West Church to supplement silver made by Churchill. It appears that Cary bought a silversmith business in 1820 from Hazen Morse, his brother-in-law, and worked from 1820 to 1832 as a silversmith, with his shop at 5 Piedmont Street. In 1821 he married Adeline Billings in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1828 he became a member of the Massachusetts [Charitable Mechanic Association]. Today Cary is remembered primarily for the silver he made for churches in Boston and as far away as Deerfield, Massachusetts. His work is collected in the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], the Museum of [Fine Arts Boston], and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.