Claim: Thomas Hovenden was born on December 28, 1840, in Ireland and died in 1895 in the United States.
Evidence: December 28, 1840 (1840-12-28)
Dunmanway, Co. Cork, Ireland August 14, 1895(1895-08-14) (aged 54)
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, United States 
Thomas Hovenden (December 28, 1840 – August 14, 1895), was an Irish artist and teacher. Hovenden was killed at the age of 54, along with a ten-year-old girl, by a railroad locomotive at a crossing near his home in Plymouth Meeting.