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  • Collection: Members

Member number: 474*
Birth date: 9/17/1861
Date elected: 1/16/1888

Member number: 415
Birth date: 6/16/1828
Date elected: 7/7/1869

Description: Jacob Rianhard was a master builder elected to the Company in 1804. His address was 2nd street opposite Mary street. Jacob Rianhard was related to William Reinhard but their exact relation is unknown. He was the son of an earlier member of the…
Member number: 228*
Date elected: 1/1/1804

Description: John Reinhard was a master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company on the eve of the Revolution and of The Carpenters' Company after the two organizations of master carpenters united in 1786. He was an "encourager" of the…
Member number: 133*
Date elected: 1/16/1786

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

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Description: The Southwark master builder Joseph Rhoads was elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of earliest surviving records. He first is recorded as present at a Company meeting in 1767, and he served on various Company committees in 1770s. On…
Member number: 52*

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Description: The Quaker Samuel Rhoads was one of the most influential master builders of the colonial period. Born in Philadelphia County, the son of John and Hannah (Willcox) Rhoads, he first appeared as a speculative builder flourishing in the 1730s and 1740s.…
Member number: 13*
Birth date: 1/11711

Description: William Rianhard was proposed by Philip Justus in 1802. Rianhard passed away shortly after his admittance into the company and his children were provided with 3.25$ for their schooling in 1806. His children received financial support for their…
Member number: 221*
Date elected: 1/1/1802

Description: According to his 1880 obituary, John Rice was born in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia and apprenticed as a carpenter. After finishing his apprenticeship, he undertook the business of building, at which he flourished. According to the…
Member number: 342
Date elected: 1/1/1839

Member number: 453
Date elected: 1/12/1881

Member number: 442
Birth date: 6/25/1817
Date elected: 5/2/1877

Member number: 470*
Date elected: 8/4/1886

Description: Master builder Hugh Roberts--occasionally "Jr." to avoid confusion with the Hugh Roberts, 1703-1786, who owned the large house built at Point no Point in 1767 and belonged to the American Philosophical Society -- became a member of the Friendship…
Member number: 125*
Date elected: 1/16/1786

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

Member number: 291*
Date elected: 1/1/1824

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Description: William Roberts was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of the earliest surviving records; he was first present at a Company meeting in 1768. Roberts was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan,…
Member number: 40*

Description: Samuel Robinson was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1801. Samuel Robinson was in charge of refitting Carpenters’ Hall in preparation for housing the Bank of Pennsylvania. Robinson hired the blacksmith Patrick Lyon to make locks for…
Member number: 214*
Date elected: 1/1/1801

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Description: William Robinson was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the date of surviving records; first present at a Company meeting in 1766; elected Warden of The Company in 1773 but was "Out of the Province" much of that time.…
Member number: 70*

Description: Mark Rodes was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. He may be the Mark Rodes who was a seargent in John Jordan's company of the Artillery Artificers, 1778-1780.Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project…
Member number: 120*
Date elected: 1/5/1785

Description: John Rowen was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1803. He resided at 77 Locust street above 8th street. Little is known about Rowen’s life. In 1820, the Managing Committee of the Carpenters’ Company found Rowen to be very sick.…
Member number: 222*
Date elected: 1/1/1803

Description: Charles A. Rubicam was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1844. He served on the Carpenters' Company Library committee in 1853 and on the Managing Committee from 1858-1860. He was elected a Company Warden serving…
Member number: 352
Date elected: 1/1/1844

Description: Jonathan Rubincam was a master builder of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Born in 1781, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company late in life in 1852. In 1850, Rubicam lived on Wallace street below 11th street and by 1854, he moved to 325 Wood…
Member number: 368
Date elected: 1/1/1852

Member number: 477*
Date elected: 8/1/1888

Description: John Rugan was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785. His other memberships include the Library Company and the Columbia Fire Company. Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of…
Member number: 119*
Date elected: 1/4/1785

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Description: Joseph Rush was a master builder already active in Carpenters' Company affairs by February 15, 1763, when he was elected to the important committee to set the prices used by masters in measuring carpentry work in Philadelphia. On January 20, 1766, he…
Member number: 60*
Date elected: 1/4/1763

Member number: 437
Date elected: 1/17/1876

Member number: 413
Date elected: 1/1/1869

Description: Matthias Sadler was a master builder apprenticed to Joseph Ogilby from 1771 until 1776. He served during the Revolution in Baldwin's Artillery Artificer Regiment and by 1780 appears as a resident of Mulberry Ward in Philadelphia. On April 30, 1781 he…
Member number: 105*
Date elected: 1/1/1781

Member number: 225*
Date elected: 1/1/1803

Description: Thomas Savery, son of the cabinetmaker William Savery, Sr., entered Thomas Nevell's school for persons "anxious to improve themselves in the art of architecture" in December of 1771. Just as Nevell had been groomed for The Carpenters' Company by…
Member number: 140*
Birth date: 1/1/1751
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: George Senneff was a carpenter who first appeared in Philadelphia city directories in 1830 at 100 South Twelfth Street; he remained at that address throughout most of his life. In 1831 Senneff attempted to make the transition from carpenter to…
Member number: 281*
Date elected: 1/1/1823

Description: Michael Shaffer was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1834. He served on the Company's Managing Committee in 1852-1854. In the 1830 City Directory he was listed as a house carpenter living at 356 North 5th street.…
Member number: 321
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Member number: 412
Date elected: 11/4/1868

Description: Charles M. Shoemaker was a master builder working in Philadelphia around the middle of the 19th century. Likely the grandson of Thomas Shoemaker, an earlier master builder and President of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, Charles Shoemaker…
Member number: 366*
Date elected: 1/1/1851

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Description: Thomas Shoemaker was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company on 1 February 1769, the same year he appears in the Philadelphia tax lists as a resident of the North Ward. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan,…
Member number: 74*
Date elected: 1/1/1769

Member number: 443
Date elected: 5/2/1877

Description: Isaac Shunk was a master builder in Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1823. It is revealed in Donna J. Rilling's book, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850, that Isaac Shunk worked for carpenter…
Member number: 286*
Date elected: 1/1/1823

Description: Henry Shuster was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1837. He served as a Company Warden and and six terms on the Managing Committee. Finally, he served as the Treasurer of the Carpenters' Company from 1881-1888.…
Member number: 338
Date elected: 1/1/1837

Member number: 446
Date elected: 4/23/1877

Description: Thomas F. Shuster was a master builder of Philadelphia in the 1800s. Born in 1816, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1849, twelve years after his older brother, Henry Shuster. Little is known of his professional work but he served as an…
Member number: 360
Date elected: 1/1/1850

Description: Joseph Simes, or Sims, the carpenter, not to be confused with the well-known Philadelphia merchant Joseph Sims, was a member of the Carpenters' Company elected in 1810. Interestinly, Simes is not listed in the Philadelphia Directory until 1813 when…
Member number: 246*
Date elected: 1/1/1810

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

Member number: 490*
Date elected: 5/27/1893

Description: Daniel Smith was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1828. In the 1814 Directory, he was listed as residing at 216 South Third street. By 1820, he had moved to 222 Green Street. In 1834, he made a successful application to measure…
Member number: 297
Date elected: 1/1/1828

Date elected: 1/1/1834

Description: John Smith, son of the master builder/architect Robert Smith, was registered as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia from July 1760 to April 1765. He was listed as the administrator of his father's estate in 1777, and, in fact, was…
Member number: 104*
Date elected: 1/1/1779

Description: Joseph Smith was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1828. He resided at 179 Green street. He worked in partnership with Daniel Smith, likely a close relative, who was also elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1828. Joseph died in…
Member number: 296*
Date elected: 1/1/1828

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

Description: The master builder Nathan Allen Smith may have been from Burlington, New Jersey, but he certainly signed the articles of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1775 and the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1786 when the two organizations of…
Member number: 142*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: Ralph Smith was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1807. He served as a Warden of the Company from 1827-1829 and on the Managing Committee from 1830-1832 and 1838-1840. Ralph Smith initially resided at 77 Cherry street but moved…
Member number: 233*
Date elected: 1/1/1807
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