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Alom Laydon Couse was born in 1832 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He died on 16 August 1892, at age ~60, in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

Selina Couse was born in 1833 in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died in 1835, at age ~2, in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She was buried in Beamsville Baptist Church, Beamsville, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada.¹

Looking on Ancestry.ca with the name Selina Couse (1833-1835) parents are shown as Ira Cook Couse & Catherine Singer.
Looking on Ancestry.ca with the name Selma Couse (1833-1835) parents are shown as Moses Snover Couse & Mary Fry

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Moses Snover Couse was born on 22 April 1838 in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Mary Jane Price were married on 26 November 1862 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He died on 10 May 1904, at age 66, in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹

Almer Couse was born on 3 November 1843 in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Mary Ann Masales were married on 15 June 1868 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He died on 25 April 1929, at age 85, in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

Desdamona Couse was born on 24 December 1845 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died on 19 December 1931, at age 85, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada.¹

Robert Couse was born on 5 March 1847 in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He died on 18 November 1928, at age 81, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.¹

Margaret Jane Moyer was born on 3 July 1842 in Clinton Township. Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died on 8 October 1924, at age 82, in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

Margaret (Maggie) May Couse was born on 27 February 1870 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She and George S. Karr were married on 2 June 1917 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died in 1945, at age ~75, in Ontario, Canada.¹ She was buried in Mount Osborne Cemetery, Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.¹

James Dalton Couse was born in 1876 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He died on 27 December 1879, at age ~3, in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

Minnie Georgina Couse was born on 13 July 1881 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She and Courtland Thomas Thomson were married on 17 July 1909 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

George S. Karr was born in 1863 in Haldimand County, Canada West.¹ He and Margaret (Maggie) May Couse were married on 2 June 1917 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹

Courtland Thomas Thomson was born on 13 July 1878 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Minnie Georgina Couse were married on 17 July 1909 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He was buried in Mount Osborne Cemetery, Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.¹

Mary Jane Price was born on 19 August 1840 in Louth, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She and Moses Snover Couse were married on 26 November 1862 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died on 22 September 1928, at age 88, in Bay City, Bay, Michigan.¹

Alpha Del Couse was born on 26 December 1863 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Julia A. Valentine were married on 21 June 1888 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹ He and Cora Ella Gidley were married on 10 November 1909 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹ He died on 25 February 1937, at age 73, in Bridgeport, Saginaw, Michigan.¹

Eanger Irving Couse was born on 3 September 1866 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹ He and Virginia Jane Walker were married on 30 June 1889 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.¹ He died on 26 April 1936, at age 69, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico.¹

Eanger Irving Couse was an Artist.^1,2 Eanger Irving Couse was born September 3, 1866 in Saginaw, Michigan. The Chippewa people lived close by. Young Couse's interest in Native American cultures developed very early, as did his artistic instinct. To paint the American Indian became his life-long ambition.

Schooling:
He left traditional schooling at age 16 and studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago and then for two years at the National Academy of Design in New York City. In the fall of 1886 Couse went to Paris where he entered the Académie Julian. He learned French rapidly and was successful in his art studies under William Bougereau and Tony Robert Fleury, often winning prizes for his work.

Virginia:
In the fall of 1887, he was introduced by mutual friends to Virginia Walker, a ranch girl from the state of Washington, who had come to Paris to study illustration. A romance developed and they were married in Paris in 1889.

Couse wanted to paint a major Indian picture for the Paris Salon and Virginia convinced her husband to return to America and live for a year on her family's ranch in Washington, where he could find Indian models. The Captive, a history painting based on an incident associated with the Whitman Massacre, was his first painting depicting an Indian subject. It was shown in the Paris Salon of 1892 and now hangs in the Phoenix Art Museum. His wife and a local Klikitat Indian were his models.

Back in France, the Couses moved in 1893 to Etaples, a small fishing village and art colony on the coast of Picardy. They remained there for three years while he painted French peasants and fisher folk. Their son, Kibbey, was born in Etaples.

Taos:
In 1898 the Couses established a winter studio in New York, but summers were spent away from the city, painting in Washington, Connecticut and France. Couse learned of Taos in May of 1902 through a conversation with his friend, Ernest Blumenschein. Two weeks later Couse arrived in northern New Mexico with his family to begin a lifetime of summer residency and the development of the oeuvre for which he became famous. He was one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists in 1915 and its first president. A painter of Native Americans in Taos for the rest of his life, he was honored with many major prizes and awards.

Couse died in 1936 after a long and distinguished career.

Edith L. Couse was born on 21 June 1877 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹

Julia A. Valentine was born on 12 June 1869 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan.¹ She and Alpha Del Couse were married on 21 June 1888 in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹ She died on 12 March 1906, at age 36, in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan.¹

Ray Couse was born in September 1889 in Michigan.¹

Virginia Jane Walker was born on 10 December 1860 in Zena, Polk, Oregon.¹ She and Eanger Irving Couse were married on 30 June 1889 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.¹ She died on 24 December 1929, at age 69, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico.¹

Kibbey Whitman Couse was born on 11 August 1894 in Etaples, Pas-de-Calais, France.¹ He and Lucille Blazo Wrenn were married on 25 August 1920 in Manhattan, New York, New York.¹ He died on 2 January 1978, at age 83, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona.¹

Lucille Blazo Wrenn was born in February 1896 in California.¹ She and Kibbey Whitman Couse were married on 25 August 1920 in Manhattan, New York, New York.¹ She died on 22 April 1939, at age 43, in Taos, Taos, New Mexico.¹

Elizabeth Ann Couse was born on 3 August 1925 in New York.¹ She died on 2 February 2013, at age 87, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona.¹

Irving Walker Couse was born on 22 April 1935 in Raton, Colfax, New Mexico.¹ He died on 14 March 2002, at age 66, in Sante Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.¹

Mary Ann Masales was born on 28 July 1848 in Canada West.¹ She and Almer Couse were married on 15 June 1868 in Lincoln County, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹ She died on 12 April 1935, at age 86, in Beamsville, Lincoln, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.¹