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Member number: 361
Date elected: 1/1/1850

Member number: 456
Date elected: 6/7/1882

Member number: 493*
Birth date: 2/5/1865
Date elected: 8/3/1893

Description: George Sterr Sr. was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1836. Sterr was born in 1784 to German-American parents. In 1824, he lived at 154 N. 8th street and, in addition to being a carpenter, was a shopkeeper.…
Member number: 330
Date elected: 1/1/1836

Member number: 242*
Birth date: 2/20/1779
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Description: The master builder William Stevenson, Sr., was elected to the Friendship Carpenters' Company on the eve of the Revolution. He joined The Carpenters' Company when the two organizations of master carpenters united in 1786. In 1789 he inventoried the…
Member number: 130*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: The Dock Ward master builder James Stewart was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1794. He was a subscriber to Owen Biddle, The Young Carpenters' Assistant (Philadelphia, 1805), one of the earliest American architecture books. Biography…
Member number: 183*
Date elected: 1/1/1794

Description: James Stewart was a builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. Stewart had served an apprenticeship with John Warner, an earlier master builder and member of the Carpenters' Company. Stewart resided at 17 Plum street. In…
Member number: 311*
Birth date: 1/1/1787
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Author: Van Antwerp, W.C.
Date: 1913

Date: 1949-01-01

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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

Author: Various Practical Writers.
Date: 1891

Author: Barker, Lady
Date: 1871

Author: Church, Rev. Alfred J., M. A.
Date: 1878

Author: Verne, Jules
Date: 1874

Author: Du Chaillu, Paul
Date: 1870

Author: Healy, Mary
Date: 1877

Author: Howe, E. W.
Date: 1884

Author: Viollet-le-Doc. Translated by George M. Towle
Date: 1874

Author: Mason, Francis
Date: 1870

Author: Hake, A . Egmont
Date: 1884

Author: Seelye, Elizabeth Eggleston
Date: 1892

Author: Holloway, Charlotte Molyneux
Date: 1890

Author: Coffin, Charles
Date: 1879

Author: Hayes, Henry
Date: 1886

Author: Harland, Marion
Date: 1892

Author: Madoc, Fayr
Date: 1883

Author: Smith, Albert
Date: 1853

Author: Anderson, Hans Christian
Date: 1872

Author: Taylor, Meadows
Date: 1878

Author: Catherwood, Mary Hartwell.
Date: 1890

Description: saw set; steel with wooden handle. patented by A. Stillman.
Item type: saw set

Member number: 247*
Date elected: 1/1/1810
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