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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
Hutchinson, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Hutchinson was a Philadelphian master builder and was elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1824. Hutchinson was the son of an earlier member, John Hutchinson He served a term as Secretary and Warden of the Company as well as multiple terms on…
Member number:
292
Birth date:
5/7/1796
Date elected:
1/1/1824
Roberts, Seth R.
Member number:
291*
Date elected:
1/1/1824
Flickwir, David Henry
Description:
David Henry Flickwir was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1824. His father, David Flickwir had also been a member of the Company until his death in 1813. David H. Flickwir served nearly every office the Company…
Member number:
290
Birth date:
1/1/1798
Date elected:
1/1/1824
Greeves, James R.
Description:
James R. Greeves was a master builder and lumber merchant in Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of the same city in 1824. He served as a Warden of the Company from 1830-32. Greeves was a prominent lumber merchant in Philadelphia. In…
Member number:
289*
Date elected:
1/1/1824
Zigler, Jacob
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
Shunk, Isaac
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
Bockius, William H.
Description:
William H. Bockius was a master builder of Philadelphia during the first half of the 19th century. He was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1823. In addition to being a member, he served the Company as a member of the Managing…
Member number:
287*
Date elected:
1/1/1823
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, 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
Weyant, Peter
Member number:
282*
Date elected:
1/1/1823
Senneff, George
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
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
Hutchinson, James
Description:
James Hutchinson was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of the same city in 1822. He served the Company dutifully, culminating in his placement as president in 1842-44. Additionally Hutchinson held every position…
Member number:
279*
Birth date:
5/11/1794
Date elected:
1/1/1822
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
O'Neill, Robert
Description:
Robert O'Neil was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1820. He first appeared in the 1820 directory as a house carpenter living at 82 Cedar street. Eventually in 1840, he was additionally listed as living on Penn…
Member number:
277*
Date elected:
1/1/1820
Kenderdine, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Kenderdine was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1818. Kenderdine first appears in the directory in 1814 residing at Tammany above 3rd street. By 1820, he had moved to a location on Kunckle below Green.…
Member number:
276*
Date elected:
1/1/1818
Maule, Caleb
Description:
Caleb Maule was a master builder and lumber merchant elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1817. He lived at 93 Callowhill street in 1814 but moved to various other locations throughout the rest of his life.( See his file at the…
Member number:
275*
Birth date:
9/22/1790
Date elected:
1/1/1817
Linnard, James M.
Description:
James Linnard was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1817. It is believed that James was the son of Company member William Linnard. In addition to carpentry, Linnard was a lumber merchant operating a lumber yard at 11th and Pine…
Member number:
272*
Birth date:
before1785
Date elected:
1/1/1817
Erdman, Henry
Description:
Henry Erdman was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1817. Unfortunately there is scant information or records on Erdman. He was listed in the 1814 directory as a carpenter residing at 35 Chester street. In 1820 and…
Member number:
274*
Date elected:
1/1/1817
Webb, Samuel
Description:
The house carpenter and would-be architect Samuel Webb appeared in the Philadelphia city directories in 1817, the same year he was elected to The Carpenters' Company. He only appeared in the directories through 1819, although The Company continued…
Member number:
273*
Date elected:
1/1/1817
Paxson, William P.
Description:
William Paxson was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1816. He resided at 37 North 3rd street. He was elected Warden in 1821 but died during his term in 1822.Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildings,…
Member number:
271*
Date elected:
1/1/1816
Griffith, Isaac H.
Description:
Isaac Griffith was master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1816. According to the directory, Griffith changed residences fairly frequently, multiple times he was listed on Kunckle street and N. 3rd street. He was the carpenter…
Member number:
269*
Date elected:
1/1/1816
Ogden, John Melchior
Description:
The house carpenter and surveyor John M. Ogden (not to be confused with John Ogden, carpenter, who also appears in Philadelphia directories in the early nineteenth century) first appears in Philadelphia city directories as a carpenter living at 168…
Member number:
270
Birth date:
1/19/1791
Date elected:
7/24/1816
Linck, George
Description:
George Linck was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1816. Linck resided at 12 Castle street. He served the Company as Warden from 1822-24 and Treasurer from 1843-57. He also served three terms on the Managing Committee. George…
Member number:
268*
Date elected:
1/1/1816
Ballenger, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Ballenger was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1815. In 1805, he resided at 98 North 11th street. By 1810, he had moved to 70 North 9th street. In 1830, he was listed in the Directory as a city…
Member number:
267*
Date elected:
1/1/1815
Hicks, Charles Cooper
Description:
Charles Cooper Hicks was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1815. He served on the Book Prices Committee from 1829-43 and on the Managing Committee from 1829-31 and 1834-36. Hicks resided at 17 Duke street.Biography from…
Member number:
266*
Date elected:
1/1/1815
Randolph, William
Description:
William Randolph was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. In the 1820 City Directory he is listed as a lumber merchant residing at 223 N. Water street. He served as the Company's Secretary in from 1824-26 and…
Member number:
265*
Date elected:
1/1/1814
Howell, John
Description:
John Howell was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. His residence was on Stirling Alley, currently Orianna street. In 1822, Howell was stricken with paralytic palsy and the Company helped him financially.…
Member number:
264*
Date elected:
1/1/1814
Hall, James
Description:
James Hall was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1814. In the 1820 City Directory he is listed as residing at 126 Pine street. He died in 1846.Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildingssite. A project of…
Member number:
263*
Date elected:
1/1/1814
Lyndall, Joseph
Description:
Joseph Lyndall was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. Members of his family were professional cabinetmakers. He resided on Lombard street above 9th street. Lyndall died in 1822, leaving behind a wife and…
Member number:
262*
Date elected:
1/1/1814
Ramsey, Alexander
Description:
Alexander Ramsey was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1813. He resided at 175 Cherry Street and died in 1822. He left a family of little means, and the Carpenters' Company aided them financially throughout the…
Member number:
261*
Date elected:
1/1/1813
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
Wilson, Alexander
Member number:
259*
Date elected:
1/1/1813
Lirdel, James
Member number:
258*
Date elected:
1/1/1812
Parham, John
Description:
John Parham was elected to membership in the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1812. He is most notable for the letter to Nelson Barksdale, Proctor of the University of Virginia, preserved in the Thomas Jefferson Papers, University of Virginia:…
Member number:
257*
Date elected:
1/1/1812
Blain, Charles
Description:
Charles Blain was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1812. Earlier, in the Fall of 1797 he had worked on the greenhouse, wings and kitchen of Robert Morris's country seat named "The Hills". This estate was later…
Member number:
256*
Date elected:
1/1/1812
Hause, William
Description:
William Hause was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811. He served the Company as Warden and also on the Managing Committee.
Written by Tom Stokes. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of…
Member number:
252*
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Gilder, John
Description:
John Gilder was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811. He had served an apprenticeship under Peter L. Berry. Their written agreement for the apprenticeship insinuated that Gilder also went to night school to learn arithmetic…
Member number:
251*
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Lancaster, Moses
Description:
Born into a Quaker family in Bucks Co., PA, Moses Lancaster came to Philadelphia around 1802. He was elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811 and served as warden and on the Managing Committee. In her groundbreaking study of early Philadelphia…
Member number:
255
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Lancaster, John
Description:
John Lancaster was a carpenter and lumber merchant elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1811. In the City Directory of 1820 he was listed at 176 N. 4th Street. In 1830, he lived at the same location but had changed listing from lumber merchant to…
Member number:
250*
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Weir, James William
Description:
James William Weir was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1811. He served the Company as Warden and also on the Managing Committee and Book Prices Committee. Around 1837 he taught architectural drawing at the Carpenters' Company school.Written by…
Member number:
249*
Date elected:
1/1/1811
Baker, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Baker was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia in 1810. He was an active member, serving as Warden from 1818-1820 and on the Managing Committee from 1821-1823 and again for the 1826-1828 term. This second term…
Member number:
248*
Date elected:
1/1/1810
Ware, Richard
Description:
Richard Ware was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1810. He also opened a shop as an ironmonger. He resided at 67 Locust street. Unfortunately for Ware, his business ventures took a turn for the worse and he ended up in debtors'…
Member number:
245*
Date elected:
1/1/1810
Strahan, Joseph
Member number:
247*
Date elected:
1/1/1810
Simes, Joseph
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
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
Mitchell, James
Description:
James Mitchell was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1809. He was probably the son of Company member Benjamin Mitchell who resided at 229 Arch street. In 1799, James Mitchell resided at 231 Arch street but had moved to the corner…
Member number:
243*
Date elected:
1/1/1809
Stevenson, Cornelius
Member number:
242*
Birth date:
2/20/1779
Date elected:
1/1/1809