Browse Items (477 total)
- Collection: Members
Catanach, Adam A.
Member number:
444
Date elected:
1/21/1878
Catanach, John C.
Member number:
471*
Date elected:
5/4/1887
Chamberlin, John
Description:
John Chamberlin was a master builder who was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1826. Richard Chamberlin, probably John's father, was an earlier member of the Company. John lived at 40 Kunckle street. He died in 1868. Biography…
Member number:
293
Date elected:
1/1/1826
Chamberlin, Richard
Description:
Richard Chamberlain was a master builder elected a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He served as a Warden of the company from 1810-1812. Richard lived on Coates Alley for most of his professional career. In 1791, he was listed at 15 Coates…
Member number:
192
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Chamberlin, William
Member number:
449
Date elected:
7/24/1878
Chandlee, George
Description:
Born in 1801, George Chandlee was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1852. Like many other Carpenter Company members, Chandlee was a member of the Religious Society of Friends. According to Quaker records, Chandlee's family had a…
Member number:
369
Date elected:
1/1/1852
Clark, Benjamin
Description:
Benjamin Clark was a master house carpenter claimed as an early member of The Carpenters' Company in 1786, although no Company records survive prior to the l760s. In 1724 he married Mary Hoston from the Haddonfield, West Jersey, Monthly Meeting, by…
Member number:
9*
Birth date:
1/11700
Clark, James
Description:
James Clark was a master builder in Philadelphia who reportedly taught architectural drawing at the Franklin Institute. He is listed in the Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter with a residence at 8 Nicholson's Court from 1814 to 1826,…
Member number:
260*
Date elected:
1/1/1813
Clark, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Clark was a master builder and a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769. When the Friendship Company and The Carpenters' Company merged in 1786, he became a member of The Company. Architectural drawings held by the Maryland…
Member number:
138*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Clark, Jr., James
Description:
James Clark Jr. was a Philadelphia House Carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1835. He was likely the son of another Carpenters' Company member, James Clark (elected 1813). James jr. lived at 320 Coates street at the time of his election…
Member number:
325
Date elected:
1/1/1835
Clark, William
Description:
William Clark, son of master house carpenter Benjamin Clark, was also a member of the Carpenters' Company. In 1746 he married Beulah Coates at St. Michael's Lutheran Church.Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of…
Member number:
11*
Birth date:
1/1/1725
Clarke, Aaron
Description:
Aaron Clarke was elected to membership in the Carpenters Company of Philadelphia in 1794. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
Member number:
175*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Close, Charles S.
Member number:
417
Date elected:
1/17/1870
Coats Jr., Isaac
Description:
Isaac Coats, Jr., was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1768 although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a specific date. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British…
Member number:
53*
Coleman, William
Description:
William Coleman was a master builder listed as an early member of The Carpenters' Company in 1786, but no Company records prior to the l760s survive to confirm the dates of his membership. Typical of early building trade craftsmen, Coleman married…
Member number:
18*
Birth date:
1/11672
Coles, William
Description:
William Coles was elected to the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia in 1803. In 1810, he resided at 145 N. 8th street. By 1824, he had moved to 237 Race street. He again moved to 207 Sassafras street sometime between 1824 and 1827. In 1820, Coleman…
Member number:
224*
Date elected:
1/1/1803
Colladay, Abraham
Description:
Abraham Colladay was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. Colladay's only known commission is the steeple added to the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, PA, in 1794. On May 22, 1795, the Columbianum or American…
Business name:
Carpenter
Member number:
165
Birth date:
1/11760's
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Colladay, Charles J.
Description:
Charles Colladay was master builder in Philadelphia during the first half of the 1800s. He was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1823 . Charles was likely related to other Colladays who were also members of the Company but their…
Business name:
see"comments" about expulsion from Company
Member number:
285
Date elected:
1/1/1823
Colladay, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Colladay was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He was also a member of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 for residents of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area of Philadelphia. biography from thePhiladelphia…
Member number:
163
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Colladay, Jacob W.
Description:
Jacob W. Colladay appears in the Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter and builder from 1866 to 1868. In 1866 he is associated with the building of the "Wigwam" for the National Convention in Philadelphia at 21st Street and Girard Avenue, a…
Member number:
332
Date elected:
1/1/1836
Colladay, Joseph S.
Member number:
284
Date elected:
1/1/1823
Colladay, Theodore
Description:
Theodore Colladay was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1823. His relation to the other Colladays of the Carpenters' Company is uncertain. The first segment of his career he lived at 16 Castle street but by 1835 had moved to…
Member number:
283
Date elected:
1/1/1823
Colladay, William
Description:
William Colladay was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1769, serving as a member of various committees throughout the l770s. One of several master builders who were active in civic affairs in the last quarter of the eighteenth…
Member number:
76*
Birth date:
1/1/1738
Date elected:
1/3/1769
Comly, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Comly was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
Member number:
187*
Date elected:
1/1/1795
Conard, Charles
Description:
Charles Conard was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1837. He served on the Company's Managing Committee and its Book Prices Committee as well as Company Secretary (1863-65), Vice President…
Member number:
335
Birth date:
1801
Date elected:
1/1/1837
Cooper, James
Description:
James Cooper was elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1803 after being proposed by Robert Morrell. In 1805, he resided in Pearsons Court. The Directory for 1810 locates Cooper at 192 St. John st. and in 1814 at 147 St. John st. He died in 1816. His…
Member number:
223*
Date elected:
1/1/1803
Cooper, John
Description:
John Cooper was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. John Cooper was proposed for the Carpenters’ Company by John King. It is certain that a carpenter named John Cooper lived at 133 Pine street from 1791 until his death in the…
Member number:
122*
Date elected:
1/7/1785
Cooper, Joseph B.
Member number:
400
Date elected:
7/16/1866
Copeland, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Copeland was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1831. He served the Company as Warden and Secretary as well as on the Book Prices and Managing Committees. Copeland was listed in the Philadelphia Directory at…
Member number:
302*
Date elected:
1/1/1831
Corbit, Joseph
Member number:
220*
Date elected:
1/1/1802
Corkrin, James
Description:
James Corkrin was a master builder and lumber merchant who became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1783 and served as Warden in 1784.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia.
Member number:
106*
Date elected:
1/6/1782
Coryell, Henry Lepner
Description:
Henry Coryell was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1820. The same year, Henry was listed as a carpenter living at 23 Lombard street. He served as a Warden of the Carpenters' Company in 1828-1830.Biography from…
Member number:
278*
Birth date:
1/1/1785
Date elected:
1/1/1820
Cowgill, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Cowgill was a master builder who became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1800.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
211*
Date elected:
1/1/1800
Cownover, Ferdinand
Description:
Ferdinand Cownover was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1838. He resided on Parrish street below 10th street. Ferdinand Cownover died in 1865 and the following year his widow was added to the…
Member number:
340
Date elected:
1/1/1838
Cox, John T.
Description:
John Cox was a master builder elected to membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1797. The existence of several men of this name (or Coxe) in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia makes positive identification impossible. The carpenter John Cox lived…
Member number:
204*
Date elected:
1/1/1797
Craghead, Patrick
Description:
Patrick Craghead was a master builder who became a member of The Carpenters' Company before 1767. He served as a Second Lieutenant in Baldwin's Artillery Artificer Regiment during the Revolution. Written by Sandra L. Tatman, from thePhiladelphia…
Member number:
55*
Craig, James
Description:
James Craig was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1787. He was also an "encourager" of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (Philadelphia: R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775). Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a…
Member number:
153*
Date elected:
1/1/1787
Cramer, David
Member number:
392
Date elected:
10/18/1864
Cramer, William H.
Member number:
393
Date elected:
10/18/1864
Crozier, Matthew
Description:
Matthew Crozier was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. In Ryan K. Smith’s Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder, Crozier is included as a master carpenter for Morris’s…
Member number:
166*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Crump, John
Member number:
403
Birth date:
2/6/1827
Date elected:
10/15/1866
Cubberly, Edward
Member number:
472*
Date elected:
8/3/1887
Darragh, John
Description:
The elusive John Darragh may be tied to the history of Old St. Joseph's Church (1839) on Willings Alley in Philadelphia. A memoir published in 1886 to benefit Old St. Joseph's Church mentioned John Darragh as the architect as well as a member of the…
Member number:
280*
Date elected:
1/1/1822
Davies, Howard
Member number:
459
Date elected:
5/2/1883
Davies, Mordecai
Member number:
432
Date elected:
11/4/1874
Davies, Nathan B.
Member number:
431
Date elected:
11/4/1874
Davis, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Davis was a house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Nothing is known of Davis's professional activity; however, in 1798 he robbed the Bank of Pennsylvania, then housed in Carpenters' Hall, of $160,000 in bank notes and gold.…
Member number:
182*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Davis, Jr., James
Description:
James Davis, Jr., was the son of a house carpenter and a successful master builder in his own right. The Carpenters' Company lists him as an early member; he is first mentioned as present at meetings in 1766, although no Company records prior to the…
Member number:
30*
Davis, Samson
Description:
Samson (or Sampson) Davis was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1810. He is first listed in Philadelphia’s City Directory as a house carpenter at 301 Arch street from 1795-1799. Sometime, after 1800, his address changed to 183 Cherry…
Member number:
244*
Date elected:
1/1/1810
Davis, Thomas
Member number:
411
Date elected:
10/28/1868