Editing Andrew Jackson Downing (section)

==Early life==

Downing was born in [[Newburgh, New York]], to Samuel Downing, a wheelwright and later nurseryman, and Eunice Bridge. After finishing his schooling at sixteen, he worked in his father's nursery in the [[Newburgh, New York (town)|Town of Newburgh]], and gradually became interested in landscape gardening and architecture. He began writing on botany and landscape gardening and then undertook to educate himself thoroughly in these subjects. He married Caroline DeWint, daughter of [[John Peter DeWindt|John Peter DeWint]], in 1838.<ref name=Schuyler>{{cite web|first=David|last=Schuyler|title=Downing, Andrew Jackson|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-00235.html|work=American Council of Learned Societies: American National Biography Online|date=February 2000|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=September 18, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918202843/http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-00235.html|archive-date=September 18, 2017|df=mdy-all}}</ref>