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- Collection: Members
Boyer, James
Description:
James Boyer was a master builder and probably the son of William Boyer. He was elected to membership in The Carpenters' Company on January 18, 1790 after being proposed by William Garrigues. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a…
Member number:
158*
Date elected:
1/1/1788
Snowden, George
Description:
The master builder George Snowden was proposed for membership in The Carpenters' Company on 19 January 19 1789 by Joseph Ogilby and elected on 20 July 1789, although he did not sign the articles of The Company until 1791, having "paid...admission in…
Member number:
160*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Knight, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Knight was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 (signed Articles in 1791) who paid his admission in carpenters work, specifically the trim and balusters of the second floor window at Carpenters' Hall. He served as Warden…
Member number:
159*
Birth date:
9/12/1759
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Krider, William
Description:
William Krider was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 and signed the Articles in 1791. Said to have worked on Library Hall and paid for his Carpenters' Company admission fees by helping to finish Carpenters' Hall after the Library Company…
Member number:
161*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Steel, Alexander
Description:
The Southwark district master builder Alexander Steel was elected to The Carpenter's Company in 1791 and is recorded as having served on the Governing Committee in 1801. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenter's Assistant…
Member number:
162*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
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
Morris, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Morris was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792, serving as Warden (1794-97) and Vice-President (1821-23). He was a director of the Philadelphia Contributionship (1809-1817) and first President of the Columbia Fire…
Member number:
164*
Birth date:
1/1/1770
Date elected:
1/1/1792
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
Kellinger, Philip
Description:
Philip Kellinger was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He died the following year. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
168*
Birth date:
2/1/1769
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Jordan, Robert
Description:
Robert Jordan was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. Jordan's "Receipt Book, 1790-1833" survives in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and contains both a record of his work, 1790-1797, and the…
Member number:
169*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Thornton, Benjamin
Description:
The master builder Benjamin Thornton declined membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1782 but was elected in 1792. He appears in the Philadelphia city directories as a house carpenter at 20 Church Alley. According to Carpenters' Company records…
Member number:
170*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Paschall, Benjamin
Description:
Benjamin Paschall was a carpenter who joined The Carpenters' Company in 1792 and died in 1801. He should not be confused with an earlier Benjamin Paschall. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
167*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
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
Wayne, Samuel
Description:
The master builder Samuel Wayne--13 Key's Alley--was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793. Samuel married Elizabeth Curtain at Christ Church in 1783.biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
171*
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Powell, William
Description:
The master builder William Powell, son of Thomas Powell (yeoman), became an apprentice to Joseph Watkins, carpenter, in 1745 for seven years. What relationship he may have been to the William Powell who was admitted a free carpenter of Philadelphia…
Member number:
172*
Birth date:
1/1/1731
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Garrigues, Edward
Description:
Edward Garrigues was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793. He was proposed for membership by Samuel Pancoast. Edward served on the Board of Health during the yellow fever outbreaks in the 1790s.Biography from thePhiladelphia…
Member number:
174*
Birth date:
1/1/1756
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Johnson, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Johnson, a master builder who served his apprenticeship under John Harrison, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793 and excluded in 1805. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
173*
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Simes, Samuel
Description:
Sameul Sims was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He died the next year. Samuel Simes, or Sims, was a member of the company for around a year. There are multiple listings in the Philadelphia Directory between 1785 and 1794.…
Member number:
176*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Mulock, Edward
Description:
Edward Mulock was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. The following year he was paid for 218-1/2 days work at Congress Hall. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.…
Member number:
177*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
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
Paul, David
Description:
David Paul was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
178*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Lancaster, Thomas
Description:
Thomas Lancaster was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was also an original member of the Humane Fire Company founded the same year. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum…
Member number:
179*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
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
Zigler, Jacob
Description:
The master builder Jacob Zigler (Ziegler) served in the First Pennsylvania Battalion as an Ensign and then Lieutenant from 1775 to 1777. He was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794 and died in 1822. At the time of his election to The Company,…
Member number:
180*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Leech, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Leech was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
181*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Rhoads, Charles
Description:
Charles Rhoads was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He died in 1810. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
184*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Stewart, James
Description:
The Dock Ward master builder James Stewart was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenters' Assistant (Philadelphia, 1805), one of the earliest American architecture books. Biography…
Member number:
183*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Sproul, John
Description:
John Sproul (Sprowl) was a master builder proposed for membership in The Carpenters' Company in 1788, although he was not elected until 1794. Company records suggest he died that same year, although Philadelphia directories list him through 1797.…
Member number:
185*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Paul, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Paul was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was elected after being proposed by Robert Jordan. Paul likely lived outside of the city as he is not listed in any directories. Multiple individuals named Samuel Paul…
Member number:
186*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
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
Summers, George
Description:
Born in Philadelphia, the master builder George Summers was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He married Lydia Wright (b. 26 March 1777) in 1794.Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of…
Member number:
188*
Birth date:
11/19/1768
Date elected:
1/1/1795
Hutchinson, John
Description:
John Hutchinson was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He built present day 236 Seventh Street the same year. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger…
Member number:
189*
Birth date:
10/27/1758
Date elected:
1/1/1795
Evans, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Evans was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. He was proposed for membership by Charles Rhoads. He was expelled in 1803 for failing to pay his fines and quarterages. In the 1795 city directory, there are two carpenters…
Member number:
190*
Date elected:
1/1/1795
Nice, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Nice was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Nice lived at 40 Coate's Alley until 1807. He died in 1818.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Thomas Stokes.
Member number:
191*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Adolph, John
Description:
John Adolph was a master builder who was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
193*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Smith, Jr., John D.
Description:
The master builder John Smith, Jr. should not be confused with John Smith, son of Robert Smith. John Smith, Jr. was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796 and died in 1820. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenter's Assistant…
Member number:
194*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
McLeod, Malcom
Description:
Malcom McLeod was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. An statement on his death in a newspaper says McLeod was a native of Scotland and died at the age of 80. This puts his birth year around 1761. He lived the majority of his…
Member number:
195*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
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
Carlile, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Carlile was a master builder elected a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
196*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Thomas, Elisha
Description:
Elisha Thomas was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796; that same year he appears in the Philadelphia city directory as a house carpenter living at 58 Vine Street. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a project…
Member number:
197*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Hopkins, William
Description:
William Hopkins was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He was proposed for membership by Silas Engles.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Thomas Stokes…
Member number:
198*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Flickwir, David H.
Description:
David Flickwir was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
199*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Lybrand, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Librand, also known as Lybrand, was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He was also a member of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 for residents of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area. Biography from Philadelphia…
Member number:
200*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
Govett, William
Description:
Son of master builder Joseph Govett, William Govett was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He appears in the Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter from 1835 through 1840. Govett was clearly following his trade at the…
Member number:
201*
Date elected:
1/1/1796
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
Perkins, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Perkins was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 after he was proposed by Conrad Bartling. He died in 1808.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Thomas…
Member number:
202*
Date elected:
1/1/1798
Williamson, Jesse
Description:
The master builder Jesse Williamson, who appears in Philadelphia city directories in the 1790s with a residence at 333 South Second Street, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798 and died in 1852. In the 1790s he may have been in partnership…
Member number:
203*
Date elected:
1/1/1798
Roberts, Jonathan
Description:
Jonathan Roberts was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1798. He was subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenter's Assistant; or, a system of architecture, adapted to the style of building in the United States (Philadelphia,…
Member number:
205*
Date elected:
1/1/1798
Mansfield, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Mansfield was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1799. Following his death in 1803, the Company provided financial assistance for his children enabling them to go to school.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and…
Member number:
204*
Date elected:
1/1/1799
Ireland, Alphonso Cawson
Description:
Alphonso C. Ireland was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1799. In Philadelphia city directories he cites himself as a carpenter from 1797 to 1818. In 1818 he added "and measurer of carpenters' work" and from 1824 to 1830 he…
Member number:
205*
Date elected:
1/1/1799