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Author: Crawford, F. Marion.
Date: 1887

Author: Packard, A. S. Jr.
Date: 1879

Author: Oswald, Felix L.
Date: 1883

Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
Date: 1881

Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
Date: 1881

Description: Jacob Zigler was a master builder in Philadelphia during the first half of the 19th century. In 1823, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia. He was probably closely related to an earlier member and Revolutionary War veteran of the…
Member number: 288*
Date elected: 1/1/1823

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

Author: Jackson, Helen
Date: 1885

Author: Colange, L.
Date: 1870

Author: Colange, L.
Date: 1870

Description: Joseph P. Zebley was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1809 after he “appeared at a meeting, paid his entrance money & signed the articles”. He first lived at 36 Kunckle street but had moved to Wood and 6th…
Member number: 239*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Description: Although trained to the craft of house carpentry, Adam Zantzinger spent most of his life as a merchant. He was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1772 and signed the Articles the following year, even though he was advertising his ironmongery store…
Member number: 92*
Birth date: 8/18/1746
Date elected: 1/3/1772

Author: Bulwer Lytton, Sir Edward.
Date: 1867

Description: The master carpenter and ironmonger William Zane became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company c.1775 and a member of The Carpenters' Company when the two groups of master carpenters united in 1786. In the years following the Revolution, Zane…
Member number: 139*
Date elected: 1/16/1786

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Description: The leading Quaker master builder Isaac Zane was born in New Jersey, the son of Nathaniel and Grace (Rakestraw) Zane. In his early teens he had departed the family farm at the mouth of Newton Creek opposite what is now South Philadelphia to become an…
Member number: 10*
Birth date: 1/1/1711

Author: Bynner, Edwin Lassetter.
Date: 1892

Author: Reid, Mayne, Capt.
Date: 1869

Author: Trowbridge, J. T.
Date: 1875

Author: Pearson, C. H., Dr.
Date: 1871

Author: Lukin, James
Date: 1872

Author: Wise, Rev. Daniel
Date: 1871

Author: Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)
Date: 1872

Author: Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)

Author: Payne, Robert
Date: 1950

Author: Biddle, Owen
Date: 1805

Author: Wiley, William H. and Sarah King Wiley
Date: 1893

Author: Fields, James T.
Date: 1872

Date: 1905-05-28

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Date: 1905-06-12

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Date: 1958-12-03

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Date: 1995-03-24

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Author: Kingsley, Charles
Date: 1885

Author: MacKenzie, A. Slidell
Date: 1857

Author: MacKenzie, A. Slidell
Date: 1857

Author: MacKenzie, A. Slidell
Date: 1857

Author: Williams, Mrs. H. Dwight
Date: 1864

Member number: 401
Birth date: 2/15/1830
Date elected: 7/16/1866

Author: Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)
Date: 1872

Author: Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)
Date: 1874

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