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Jonathan Dilworth was a master builder and one of the original committeemen who founded the Friendship Carpenters Company in 1769. When the Friendship Company and the Carpenters' Company merged in 1786, Dilworth joined The Company, although he was…
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William Dilworth was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to 1763, but no Company records prior to the l760s survive to confirm the date of his membership. From 1763 through 1765 he was a member of the important Company committee…
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Aaron Doan was a carpenter, contractor and sometime architect who appears in Philadelphia directories as a carpenter or builder beginning in 1850 and continuing through 1885, except for the years 1874-1875 when he styles himself an architect. Briefly…
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George W. Doan was a master builder from Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company elected in 1841. Doan mostly built row houses all across the city. According to the 1845 Philadelphia Directory, Doan resided at 3 Union Square and was a…
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John Donahue was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785 and excluded in 1790. He was an "encourager" to Abraham Swan, The British Architect (Philadelphia, R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775). Biography from Philadelphia Architects and…
