Williamson, Jesse

Metadata

Title

Williamson, Jesse

Member Number

322

Last Name

Williamson

First Name

Jesse

Deceased Date

1/1/1850

Date Elected

1/1/1834

Office Held

Warden, 1844,45,46

Committee Membership

Book Prices Committee, 1827-28
Managing Committee, 1829-31,41-43,47-49

Business Address

See Comments

Reference

Tatman & Moss Bio Dictionary Phila. Architects page 856. A master builder who appears in Philadelphia city directories in the 1790s with a residence at 333 South Second st., was elected to The Company in 1798 and died in 1852. In the 1790s he may have been in partnership with the house carpenter David Flickwir. --------------- Prime Directory: Lists Jesse Williamson & Co. as cabinet makers, corner of Spruce & 3rd Sts. (1785). Jesse Williamson as joiner at 104 Spruce St. (1791), house carpenter at 333 South 2nd St. (1794), south Front St. (1796), 32 Almond St., corner of Front (1797), 23 Queen St. (1799) and Queen near Swanson (1799). --------------- See other Williamson entry.

File Number

1

Defendant/Sheriff's Sale Notes

See other man with same name for listings; no distinction made in city records.