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Description: William Wagner was elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1809. Wagner served on the Managing Committee and the Book Prices Committee for multiple terms. He also served as Treasurer, Vice-President, and finally President. Wagner moved multiple times…
Member number: 237*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Author: Burroughs, John
Date: 1887

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Date: 1878

Author: Horner, Susan and Joanna
Date: 1873

Author: Horner, Susan and Joanna
Date: 1873

Author: Hare, Augustus J.C.
Date: 1878

Author: Hare, Augustus J.C.
Date: 1872

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Description: Tin wall sconce with mirrored reflectors and a single scrolled arm candle holder.
Date: late 18th C.
Item type: sconce

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Description: Tin wall sconce with mirrored reflectors and a single scrolled arm candle holder.
Date: late 18th C.
Item type: sconce

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Description: The master builder Samuel Wallis signed the Articles of The Carpenters' Company on 16 July 1770. Never regular in his attendance at Company meetings, he may have been out of Pennsylvania much of the time. (There was a Samuel Wallis in Harford County,…
Member number: 84*
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Date: 1976-10-05

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Member number: 448
Date elected: 7/16/1878

Author: Brockett, L. P.
Date: 1872

Author: Wanamaker, John
Date: 1926

Author: Ouida
Date: 1883

Author: Sue, Eugene
Date: 1845

Author: Wood, Wm. Maxwell, M.D. Surgeon U.S. Navy
Date: 1849

Date: 1878

Author: Waterton, Charles
Date: 1891

Author: Gautier, Theophile
Date: 1853

Author: Hare, Augustus J.C.
Date: 1873

Author: Forbes
Date: 1877

Author: Ripley, R. S.
Date: 1849

Author: Ripley, R. S.
Date: 1849

Author: Jones, J. B.
Date: 1872

Author: King, Charles, Capt.
Date: 1888

Date: 1881-1919 2 to 12 1992

Date: 1813-31 2 to 12 1992

Date: 1831-47 2 to 12 1992

Date: 1847-81 2 to 12 1992

Date: 1919-80 2 to 12 1992

Description: Richard Ware was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1810. He also opened a shop as an ironmonger. He resided at 67 Locust street. Unfortunately for Ware, his business ventures took a turn for the worse and he ended up in debtors'…
Member number: 245*
Date elected: 1/1/1810

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1881

Description: Master builder Edward Warner may have been apprenticed as a house carpenter to James Porteus whose heir he was in 1736/37. Warner was admitted as a freeman of Philadelphia by the Common Council in 1717, and by the 1720s he was selling by lottery a…
Member number: 12*
Birth date: 1/1/1690

Description: John Warner became a member of the Carpenters’ Company in 1809. He was listed as a carpenter living at 177 Pine in the 1810 City Directory. In 1814, he was listed at 28 Christian street. By 1820, he was listed at Carpenter below 3rd street,…
Member number: 241*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Author: Adams, Davenport W.H.
Date: 1892

Author: Jonquil
Date: 1871

Author: Headly, J. T.
Date: 1854

Author: Headly, J. T.
Date: 1854

Date: 1848

Date: 1848

Author: Rush, Benjamin
Date: 1857

Author: Abbott, Charles C.
Date: 1887

Author: Optic, Oliver (pseud. W. T. Adams)
Date: 1870

Date: 1960's

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Date: 1944-09-05

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Date: 1981-04-13

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Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1864

Description: Watercolor painting of Carpenters' Hall. Painted by Louis de Moll, elected to membership in the Carpenters' Company in 1977.
Date: c. 1980
Item type: Watercolor

Member number: 423
Date elected: 5/5/1873
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