Browse Items (477 total)
- Item Type: Member
Ireland, Alphonso Cawson
Description:
Alphonso C. Ireland was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1799. In Philadelphia city directories he cites himself as a carpenter from 1797 to 1818. In 1818 he added "and measurer of carpenters' work" and from 1824 to 1830 he…
Member number:
205*
Date elected:
1/1/1799
Irish, Nathaniel
Description:
Nathaniel Irish was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in the early 1760s, although the loss of early Company records make it impossible to confirm the exact date. He was excluded from The Company in 1769. In 1775 he presented a…
Member number:
54*
Birth date:
1/1/1737
Jervis, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Jervis was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1770. He was 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:
83*
Birth date:
1/1/1748
Date elected:
1/1/1770
Johnson, Jonathan
Member number:
308*
Date elected:
1/1/1833
Johnson, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Johnson, a master builder who served his apprenticeship under John Harrison, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793 and excluded in 1805. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number:
173*
Date elected:
1/1/1793
Johnston, James
Member number:
481
Date elected:
2/5/1890
Jones, Abraham
Description:
Abraham Jones was a successful master builder from Southwark elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1770, and brother of Isaac Jones. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman,…
Member number:
77*
Date elected:
1/1/1770
Jones, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Jones was the brother of Abraham Jones, and a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the…
Member number:
127*
Birth date:
1/1/1744
Date elected:
1/16/1786
Jones, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Jones was a builder of the mid-19th century in Philadelphia. His known building projects were located in the Kensington neighborhood where he resided. The City Directory of 1850 lists Jones at 156 Queen street. He was elected to the Carpenters'…
Member number:
371
Date elected:
1/17/1853
Jones, John D.
Description:
John D. Jones was a carpenter and contractor who attempted and failed to make the transition to professional architect. He entered the Preston Retreat competition, c.1837, (won by Thomas Ustick Walter) and in 1838 prepared a rendered elevation of a…
Member number:
376
Date elected:
8/10/1853
Jones, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Jones was a master builder elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1771. He was an "encourager" of the Philadelphia edition of Abraham Swan's The British Architect (R. Bell for J. Norman, 1775), the first book on architecture…
Member number:
144*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Jordan, Robert
Description:
Robert Jordan was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. Jordan's "Receipt Book, 1790-1833" survives in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and contains both a record of his work, 1790-1797, and the…
Member number:
169*
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Justus, Phillip
Description:
Phillip Justus was born in 1769 and was elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1801 after being proposed by Jacob Lybrand. From 1794 to 1800 Justus was listed as a carpenter residing at 115 N. 5th street. His most famous contribution to Philadelphia’s…
Member number:
216*
Birth date:
11/26/1769
Date elected:
1/1/1801
Keen, Andrew
Birth date:
8/6/ 1752
Date elected:
1/1/1785
Keen, John
Description:
ohn Keen, eldest son of Matthias and Mary (Swift) Keen, was born in Philadelphia and apprenticed to Robert Smith. He became a member of The Carpenters' Company in 1772 and rapidly joined the inner circle of master builders; he served The Company as a…
Member number:
93
Birth date:
3/29/1747
Date elected:
1/4/1772
Keen, Matthias Valentine
Description:
Matthias Valentine Keen was a master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and a member of The Carpenters' Company when those two organizations joined in 1786. Nothing is known of Keen's architectural work, but he…
Member number:
129*
Date elected:
1/1/1786
Keeney, Theodore M.
Member number:
409
Date elected:
11/6/1867
Kelley, Edward
Description:
Edward Kelley was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1848. Kelley served as a Warden of the Carpenters' Company from 1860-1862 and on the Library Committee from 1870-1872. He also served on the Managing Committee…
Member number:
357
Date elected:
1/1/1848
Kellinger, Philip
Description:
Philip Kellinger was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792. He died the following year. Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
168*
Birth date:
2/1/1769
Date elected:
1/1/1792
Kemp, William
Member number:
445
Date elected:
4/25/1878
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
Ketcham, Benjamin
Member number:
398
Date elected:
10/16/1865
Ketcham, John
Description:
John Ketcham was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1846. He served as a Company Warden from 1859-1861 as well as on the Managing Committee from 1862-64 and again in 1867. The 1850 City Directory lists Ketcham as a…
Member number:
354
Date elected:
1/1/1846
Ketcham, John K.
Member number:
447
Date elected:
4/26/1878
Killgore, John
Member number:
370
Date elected:
1/17/1853
King, John
Description:
The master builder John King became a paying student of Thomas Nevell in 1766. Nevell recorded in his account book on 12 March 1766, that King paid him two pounds "to Instructions in the Art of Drawing Sundry Propositions in Architecture." King next…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/2/1784
Kinsley, Frazer
Description:
Frazer (Frazier, Frasier) Kinsley was a master builder appointed by the Committee of Safety in 1776, along with Thomas Nevell and others to collect lead clock and sash weights to be used for ammunition. An "encourager" to the Philadelphia edition of…
Member number:
109*
Date elected:
1/4/1782
Knight, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Knight was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 (signed Articles in 1791) who paid his admission in carpenters work, specifically the trim and balusters of the second floor window at Carpenters' Hall. He served as Warden…
Member number:
159*
Birth date:
9/12/1759
Date elected:
1/1/1791
Knight, Daniel Ridgway
Description:
Daniel Ridgeway Knight was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1829. His father, Daniel Knight, had been a member of the Company since 1789. Daniel completed insurance surveys of the Company's headquarters, Carpenters' Hall, first…
Member number:
298*
Birth date:
1/1/1801
Date elected:
1/1/1829
Knight, Robert Tower
Description:
Robert Tower Knight was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1833. His father and brother, both named Daniel, were members of the Carpenters' Company. Robert and his brother were the contractors for building the Philadelphia…
Member number:
316*
Birth date:
1/1/1807
Date elected:
1/1/1833
Koder, Levi
Member number:
420
Date elected:
7/15/1872
Kramer, Philip
Description:
Phillip Kramer was a house carpenter in Philadelphia born in the year 1805. Kramer found enough success as a house carpenter for induction into the Carpenters' Company in 1854. He served the Company dutifully as a Warden from 1864-1866, on the…
Member number:
379
Date elected:
7/26/1854
Krider, William
Description:
William Krider was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1789 and signed the Articles in 1791. Said to have worked on Library Hall and paid for his Carpenters' Company admission fees by helping to finish Carpenters' Hall after the Library Company…
Member number:
161*
Date elected:
1/1/1791
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
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, Thomas
Description:
Thomas Lancaster was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was also an original member of the Humane Fire Company founded the same year. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum…
Member number:
179*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Lawton, George R.
Member number:
328
Date elected:
1/1/1835
Leech, Daniel
Description:
Daniel Leech was a master house carpenter elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number:
181*
Date elected:
1/1/1794
Lefever, Isaac
Description:
Isaac Lefever was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to 1767. Isaac Lefever begins with an easily traceable history that quickly becomes obscure during the American Revolution. After the Company directed Evan Peters to make a…
Member number:
43*
Date elected:
1/1/1767
Leigh, S. Smith
Description:
S. Smith Leigh was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1833. His address was 117 N. 11th street in the 1830 City Directory. Leigh was placed on the Carpenters' Company list of quarterly allowance in 1869.Biography from the…
Member number:
313*
Date elected:
1/1/1833
Leslie, James
Description:
James Miln Leslie was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters Company in 1837. He resided on Locust above 12th street before moving to 200 Locust street around 1840. By 1845 Leslie was listed at 262 Locust street. He is credited…
Member number:
336
Date elected:
1/1/1837
Lewis, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Lewis was a master builder who came to Philadelphia from Chester County in 1741 and by 1763 (the date of earliest extant records) was a member of The Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia. The traces of his growing prominence in the building…
Member number:
32*
Birth date:
1/11714
Lewis, John
Member number:
430
Date elected:
11/4/1874
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
Lindsay, John
Description:
John Lindsay first appears in Philadelphia city directories as a house carpenter in 1828 at 180 Lombard Street, although exactly a decade later he briefly changes his listing to "architect" at Eleventh Street below Lombard. The only building with…
Member number:
304*
Date elected:
1/1/1831
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
Linnard, William
Description:
William Linnard was a master builder who served during the Revolution as a Captain of the Pennsylvania Artillery Company Militia. In 1782 he was elected to The Carpenters' Company and served as Warden in 1787 and Vice-President from 1806 until…
Member number:
114*
Birth date:
1/1/1749
Date elected:
1/5/1782
Lirdel, James
Member number:
258*
Date elected:
1/1/1812
Little, Henry
Description:
Henry Little was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1837. After joining, he served on the managing committee in 1848-1850. He is known to have built, or worked on, atleast two churches: the Methodist Protestant…
Member number:
337
Date elected:
1/1/1837
Little, J. Lindsay
Member number:
458
Date elected:
5/2/1883