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Author: Bront
Date: 1877

Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Date: 1883

Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Date: 1883

Author: Taylor, Bayard
Date: 1872

Author: MacFarlane, C.
Date: 1852

Author: Lanman, Charles.
Date: 1872

Author: Timperley, H. J.
Date: 1938

Author: Marryat, Capt.
Date: 1884

Author: Romanes, G. J.
Date: 1885

Author: Wiffin, J. H.
Date: 1872

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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

Author: Harland, Marion.
Date: 1873

Author: Spargo, John.
Date: 1921

Author: Tincker, Mary Agnes
Date: 1884

Author: Burnham, Clara Louise
Date: 1903

Author: Levinger, Rabbi Lee J.
Date: 1922

Date: 1980-01-30

Author: McCullough, David
Date: 2001

Author: Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Date: 1951

Author: Tourgee, Albion W.
Date: 1882

Author: Mulock, D. M. C.
Date: 1859

Author: Dixon, H.
Date: 1854

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Author: Homes, Oliver Wendell
Date: 1879

Author: Spurgeon, C. H.
Date: 1881

Date: 1963-04-15

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Author: Thomas, B. F.
Date: 1853

Author: Deland, Margaret.
Date: 1888

Member number: 308*
Date elected: 1/1/1833

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

Member number: 481
Date elected: 2/5/1890

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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

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

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

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

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

Author: Jones
Date: 1829

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

Author: Ebers, Georg.
Date: 1890

Author: Holley, Marietta
Date: 1878

Author: Kemble, Frances Ann

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