WELLSTOOD, John Geikie, engraver, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18 January, 1813. He came to New York in 1830, and engaged with the firm of Rawdon, Wright and Co., with whom he remained until 1847, when he entered business for himself. His firm in 1858 was merged into what is now the American bank-note company, and he remained with this company until 1871. In that year he founded in Washington, D. C., the Columbian bank-note company. While he was president of this company he modelled and partially engraved the backs of all the United States treasury-notes. When this printing passed into the hands of the government, he returned to the American bank-note company in 1879, and is still (1889) employed by them as a script-engraver. He is the oldest living bank-note engraver in this country, and has made many improvements in that class of work. --His brother, William, engraver, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 19 December, 1819, came to the United States with his parents in 1830, and when about sixteen years old began to work as a letter-en graver in New York. He afterward devoted himself entirely to pictorial work, and was especially successful in his landscapes, He has been employed by the Western Methodist book concern (1846-'74) and by various firms in New York. Among his plates, executed in the line manner, are portraits of Florence Nightingale (1857), Ulysses S. Grant, and Henry W. Longfellow, the latter after Alonzo Chappel, and the landscapes "Coast" of Mount Desert, after William Hart (1862)" "Mount Washington," after Sanford R. Gifford (1862)" Albert F. Bellows's "A Quiet Nook "(1864); "Life's Day," three subjects (1865); Thomas Moran's "Florida" (1878) ; and Walter Satterlee's "Tempus Fugit" (1880).--William's son, James, engraver, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, 20 November, 18;55 . died there, 14 March, 1880, followed the profession of his father, whose pupil he was. At the time of his death he was a member of the firm of William Wellstood and Co., and was a successful and promising engraver. His principal plates were " The Pointer," and "Safe in Port," after Thomas Moran.