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Marsh, Thomas
Member number:
386
Date elected:
1/21/1861
Lott, Thomas C.
Member number:
385
Birth date:
1/1/1810
Date elected:
4/15/1859
Ellis, Nathan W.
Member number:
384
Date elected:
7/29/1857
Denegre, Joseph
Member number:
383
Date elected:
1/1/1856
Hancock, Joseph M.
Member number:
382
Date elected:
7/25/1855
Moore, J. Louis
Member number:
381
Date elected:
1/15/1855
Snow, Edward Knight
Member number:
380
Birth date:
2/24/1816
Date elected:
7/26/1854
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
Phillippi, Henry
Member number:
378
Date elected:
4/25/1854
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
Allison, Walter
Description:
Walter Allison was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1853. Allison was partnered with George Brown, another member of the Carpenters' Company elected in 1853. Allison worked with Brown on the now demolished Smythe…
Member number:
375
Date elected:
7/18/1853
Brown, George
Description:
George Brown was a master builder of Philadelphia around the middle of the 19th century. Brown built multiple "marble front" residences in the Logan Square neighborhood during the 1850s. He also probably built the Smythe building at 101-105 Arch…
Member number:
374
Date elected:
7/18/1853
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
Killgore, John
Member number:
370
Date elected:
1/17/1853
Chandlee, George
Description:
Born in 1801, George Chandlee was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1852. Like many other Carpenter Company members, Chandlee was a member of the Religious Society of Friends. According to Quaker records, Chandlee's family had a…
Member number:
369
Date elected:
1/1/1852
Rubincam, Jonathan
Description:
Jonathan Rubincam was a master builder of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Born in 1781, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company late in life in 1852. In 1850, Rubicam lived on Wallace street below 11th street and by 1854, he moved to 325 Wood…
Member number:
368
Date elected:
1/1/1852
McIntyre, Charles
Description:
A master builder and member of the Carpenters' Company, Charles McIntyre a builder in the mid 19th century. Little else is known about him other than his work address of 18 Gray's Alley and his home address of 160 South Front Street listed in the…
Member number:
367
Date elected:
1/1/1852
McArthur, John
Description:
Uncle to the more famous John McArthur, Jr., John McArthur was a master builder in Philadelphia. According to the sparse biographical information found, he was born in Oban, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States when he was 30 years old. His…
Member number:
363*
Date elected:
1/1/1851
Hays, Robert
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
Eyre, William
Description:
Master carpenter and architect William Eyre appears in the Philadelphia city directories from 1829 to 1884. In 1833-35 and 1868 he is formally noted as an architect. He was also a member of The Carpenters' Company, having attained membership in 1851…
Member number:
364
Birth date:
1/1/1804
Date elected:
1/1/1851
Shoemaker, Charles M.
Description:
Charles M. Shoemaker was a master builder working in Philadelphia around the middle of the 19th century. Likely the grandson of Thomas Shoemaker, an earlier master builder and President of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, Charles Shoemaker…
Member number:
366*
Date elected:
1/1/1851
Stokes, Levi B.
Description:
Levi B. Stokes was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of the same city in 1851. He resided at 497 Vine Street in 1850. Written by Tom Stokes.Biography from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings site, a project of…
Member number:
362
Date elected:
1/1/1851
Steel, James G.
Member number:
361
Date elected:
1/1/1850
Shuster, Thomas F.
Description:
Thomas F. Shuster was a master builder of Philadelphia in the 1800s. Born in 1816, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1849, twelve years after his older brother, Henry Shuster. Little is known of his professional work but he served as an…
Member number:
360
Date elected:
1/1/1850
Wilson, William F.
Description:
William F. Wilson was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1849. He resided at 14 Budd street in 1830 and moved to 35 Commerce street prior to 1840. He was a Warden of the Carpenters' Company in 1852-1853.Biography…
Member number:
359
Date elected:
1/1/1849
Balderston, Mark
Description:
Mark Balderston was the brother of architect Charles Balderston. He was associated with several building enterprises, including Balderston & Albertson, Mark Balderston & Co., and Balderston & Hutton. Balderston joined the Carpenters…
Member number:
358
Date elected:
1/1/1849
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
Doan, Aaron
Description:
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…
Member number:
356
Birth date:
1/1/1815
Date elected:
1/1/1848
Rain, Samuel
Description:
Samuel Rain was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1847. He served many leadership capacities in the Company, first as a Warden in 1856-1858, on the Managing Committee from 1859-61, in 1863, 1865, 1876-78, 1884 and…
Member number:
355
Date elected:
1/1/1847
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
Price, Jacob S.
Description:
Jacob S. Price was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1844. Price was elected as a Company Warden in 1878 and served a two year term. He also served on the Managing Committee from 1881-83. In the…
Member number:
353
Date elected:
1/1/1844
Rubicam, Charles A.
Description:
Charles A. Rubicam was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1844. He served on the Carpenters' Company Library committee in 1853 and on the Managing Committee from 1858-1860. He was elected a Company Warden serving…
Member number:
352
Date elected:
1/1/1844
Betts, William Cary
Description:
William Cary Betts was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1842. Betts was listed at 43 Cherry street in the 1840 Philadelphia Directory. He worked on the construction of Pennsylvania Hall in 1835. Betts was marked…
Member number:
351
Birth date:
1/1/1813
Date elected:
1/1/1842
Bockius, Henry J.
Description:
Henry J. Bockius was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1841. He was elected as the Company Warden in 1851 and served until 1853. He served on the Managing Committee from 1854-1856, from 1858-1860 and finally from…
Member number:
350
Date elected:
1/1/1841
Doan, George W.
Description:
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…
Member number:
349
Date elected:
1/1/1841
Betts, Richard K.
Description:
Richard K. Betts was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1841. He served as Company Warden in 1854, on the Library Committee from 1853-87, on the Managing Committee from 1855-57, 1859-61, 1863-65, 1868-70, and…
Member number:
348
Birth date:
1/1/1807
Date elected:
1/1/1841
Errickson, Michael
Description:
Michael Errickson appears in Philadelphia city directories from 1832 through 1868. From 1832 to 1864 he notes an occupation as carpenter, but in 1865 he changes to "gentleman." It appears that he was one of a group of architects and carpenters…
Member number:
347
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Williams, John
Description:
John Williams was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. He served as a Warden in 1854-56, on the Managing Committee from 1857-59 and 1862-64, as Secretary from 1860-1862, Vice President from 1863-65 and as…
Member number:
346
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Palmer, William C.
Description:
William Palmer was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. In 1845, his business address was Shippen street above 8th street and his house was 161 Queen street. He died in 1847 and his widow was placed on widows'…
Member number:
345
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Patterson, Thomas B.
Description:
Thomas Patterson was a carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1839. The 1845 City Directory listed Patterson as a Carpenter at Marshall street above Brown street and his house at 7th street above Brown street. In the 1854…
Member number:
344
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Bartholomew, Jacob
Description:
Jacob Bartholomew was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia 1839. In the 1840 City Directory, Bartholomew was listed as a carpenter at 4th above German street with his residence at 43 Union street. Bartholomew was listed…
Member number:
343
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Rice, John
Description:
According to his 1880 obituary, John Rice was born in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia and apprenticed as a carpenter. After finishing his apprenticeship, he undertook the business of building, at which he flourished. According to the…
Member number:
342
Date elected:
1/1/1839
McClure, John
Description:
John McClure was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1839. He served on the Carpenters' Company Library Committee from 1854-1857. In 1835, McClure was listed at 64 Spruce street in the City Directory. The Directory…
Member number:
341
Date elected:
1/1/1839
Cownover, Ferdinand
Description:
Ferdinand Cownover was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1838. He resided on Parrish street below 10th street. Ferdinand Cownover died in 1865 and the following year his widow was added to the…
Member number:
340
Date elected:
1/1/1838
Forsyth, William T.
Description:
William Forsyth was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1838. Forsyth lived at 85 North Juniper street and worked at Brown above Cherry street in 1845. He moved his residence to 256 Cherry Street by 1850 and his…
Member number:
339
Date elected:
1/1/1838
Shuster, Henry
Description:
Henry Shuster was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1837. He served as a Company Warden and and six terms on the Managing Committee. Finally, he served as the Treasurer of the Carpenters' Company from 1881-1888.…
Member number:
338
Date elected:
1/1/1837
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
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
Conard, Charles
Description:
Charles Conard was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1837. He served on the Company's Managing Committee and its Book Prices Committee as well as Company Secretary (1863-65), Vice President…
Member number:
335
Birth date:
1801
Date elected:
1/1/1837
Durfor, William
Description:
William Durfor was a house carpenter of Philadelphia who lived from 1807 to 1883. While little is known about his background and early life, he was elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1837. He continued building through the 1870s,…
Member number:
334
Date elected:
1/1/1837