Browse Items (477 total)

  • Item Type: Member

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

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Description: John Goodwin, Jr., was a successful master buider elected to The Carpenters' Company before 1763 although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm the date of his membership. Highly respected by his colleagues, Goodwin served on the…
Member number: 25*
Birth date: 1/11720

Description: Grandson of Joseph Govett and son of William Govett, Joseph Govett, II joined the Carpenters' Company in 1833. Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings site, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Sandra L. Tatman.
Member number: 310*
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Description: Joseph Govett was a master builder proposed for membership in The Carpenters' Company several times (1765, 1771, 1772) but was blocked from admission until 1772 because of his membership in the Journeymen Carpenters' Company. He was an "encourager"…
Member number: 96*
Birth date: 12/13/1739
Date elected: 1/1/1772

Description: Robert Annesley Govett was a master builder in Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. He served as a Company Warden from 1838-1840 and on the Managing Committee from 1841-1843. In 1835, Govett lived at 9 Bonsall…
Member number: 309*
Date elected: 1/1/1833

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

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Description: James Graisbury was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to 1769, but no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm the date of his memebership. Written by Roger W. Moss, from thePhiladelphia Architects and…
Member number: 71*
Birth date: 1/1/1724

Description: David Gray was elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1801 after being proposed for membership by Alexander Steel. In the 1805 city directory he was listed at 162 N. 5th street and in 1814 he was listed at 137 N. 5th street. In 1799, Gray was paid a…
Member number: 215*
Date elected: 1/1/1801

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

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Description: Joseph Gridley was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to 1767, but no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm the date of his membership. Inactive in Philadelphia after 1771 and marked as dead in Company records…
Member number: 69*

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

Description: William Griffiths was a master builder who had been apprenticed in 1767 to William Roberts and assigned to the carpenter Thomas Hale, 1771-1772. He was proposed for membership in The Carpenters Company in 1783 and elected in 1785. By 1790 he was…
Member number: 148*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

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Description: Samuel Griscom was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company before 1766 although no records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm the date of his membership. His daughter was Elizabeth Ross (Betsy Ross, 1752-1836). Biography…
Member number: 37*
Birth date: 1/1/1717

Description: Tobias Griscom was a master builder and an early member of The Carpenters' Company, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide an exact date. In 1736 he became a shareholder of the Library Company and transferred the share to…
Member number: 17*
Birth date: 1/1/1713

Member number: 436
Date elected: 8/4/1875

Description: George Haas was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. According to the City Directory, He resided at 10th above Spring Garden. He worked with George Meyers as Haas and Meyers in 1830. Haas died in 1844.Biography…
Member number: 307*
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Member number: 433
Date elected: 1/18/1875

Description: Alexander Hale was a master builder and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book of architecture published in America. Elected to The Carpenters' Company in…
Member number: 152*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

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

Description: John Hall was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company (1769) and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture pubished in…
Member number: 145*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: Israel Hallowell was a master builder, a founder of the Friendship Carpenters Company, and an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture published in…
Member number: 147*
Birth date: 1/1/1743
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Member number: 382
Date elected: 7/25/1855

Description: William C. Hancock was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1831. He served as Warden of the Company in 1836 and on the Managing Committee in 1839. In 1820 he was listed in the City Directory as an owner of a…
Member number: 303*
Date elected: 1/1/1831

Member number: 295
Date elected: 1/1/1828

Description: Josiah Harper was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1763. Written by Roger W. Moss, from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builderswebsite.
Member number: 58*
Date elected: 1/1/1763

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Description: The master builder John Harrison II was the son of John I and Mary Harrison and the brother of Joseph and Daniel Harrison. According to Paster Eric Bjork, John II and Joseph helped their father complete Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington, DE in 1698,…
Member number: 8*
Birth date: 7/4/1685

Description: The master builder John Harrison (III), whose relationship to the other Harrisons is unclear, was living in Mulberry Ward at the time of the 1774 tax. Two years later (January 26, 1776), John Thornhill reported "that John Harrison is Desirous of…
Member number: 121*
Date elected: 1/6/1785

Member number: 157*
Date elected: 1/1/1788

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Description: The master builder Joseph Harrison was the son of John I and Mary Harrison and the brother of John II and Daniel Harrison. According to Pastor Eric Bjork, Joseph and John II helped their father complete Holy Trinity Church, Wilmington, DE in 1698,…
Member number: 6*
Birth date: 10/3/1681

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

Member number: 460
Date elected: 8/11/1883

Description: Robert Hays was a master builder of Philadelphia during the mid 1800s and was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1851. There is scant information on Hays in the Company records besides that his wife was named Mary. Hays first lived…
Member number: 365
Date elected: 1/1/1851

Description: John Henmarsh was a master builder and one of the earliest members of The Carpenters' Company, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to establish a date for his election. He is recorded as having been admitted to freedom of the city…
Member number: 1*
Birth date: 1/1/1680

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

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Description: John Hitchcock was a master builder who became a member of the Carpenters' Company in the 1760s, although no Company records prior to 1763 survive to confirm the date of his election. He was the illegitimate son of Joseph Hitchcock, who bequeathed…
Member number: 62*
Date elected: 1/6/1763

Description: Joseph Hitchcock was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to the earliest surviving records. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia.Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number: 20*
Birth date: 1/11715

Member number: 399
Date elected: 1/15/1866

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

Description: John G. Hoskins was a master builder born in Chester County in 1786. He was elected to the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia in 1809. The City Directory of Philadelphia listed him at 180 Mulberry street beginning in 1814. Initially, he was listed…
Member number: 238*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Member number: 208*
Date elected: 1/1/1800

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

Description: Joseph Howell, Jr. was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1772 and served as Clerk in 1775. According to Heitman, during the Revolution he was a Captain of the Pennsylvania Musket Battalion. Taken prisoner at Long…
Member number: 149*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: Zachariah Howell was a house carpenter of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1835. He resided at 4 Poplar lane. His relation to the other Howells of the Carpenters' Company is unknown. Portraits of Zachariah and his wife, Elizabeth,…
Member number: 329
Date elected: 1/1/1835

Description: Henry Hurst was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1807. According to the 1813 City Directory, Hurst resided at 300 Sassafras street (race street) and worked as a carpenter. The 1816 Directory listed a Henry Hurst as a grocer…
Member number: 234*
Date elected: 1/1/1807

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

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

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

Description: Thomas Hutchinson was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1829. His father John, and his two brothers James and Joseph were earlier members of the Company. Thomas lived at 2 Orange Street and had another property,…
Member number: 299
Birth date: 7/16/1800
Date elected: 1/1/1829

Member number: 439
Date elected: 5/3/1876

Description: George Ingels was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782, and he actively served The Company as a member of committees or an officer (President, 1795-1813). He marched at the head of 450 "architects and house carpenters" in the…
Member number: 107*
Date elected: 1/2/1782
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