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Son of Benjamin Pike, Sr., founder of optical business in New York City. After his father's death in 1863, he took over the family business until his own death. Frederick Seward references picking up his father's eyeglasses in a letter to William H. Seward dated March 17, 1870.

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Biography: 
Son of Benjamin Pike, Sr., founder of optical business in New York City. After his father's death in 1863, he took over the family business until his own death. Frederick Seward references picking up his father's eyeglasses in a letter to William H. Seward dated March 17, 1870.
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http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2909
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Benjamin Pike & Sons Opticians - Historic Camera
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Ancestry.com
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Ancestry
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Source Information Ancestry.com. Web: Brooklyn, New York, U.S., Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Burial Search. The Green-Wood Historic Fund. http://www.green-wood.com/burial_search/.