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Member number: 465*
Date elected: 1/1/1885

Description: The master builder John Wayne is traditionally carried on the rolls of The Carpenters' Company as a member elected prior to the earliest surviving Company records of the 1760s. Wayne died in 1765, and letters of administration were issued to Thomas…
Member number: 39*

Description: The master builder Samuel Wayne--13 Key's Alley--was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1793. Samuel married Elizabeth Curtain at Christ Church in 1783.biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builders, a project of theAthenaeum of…
Member number: 171*
Date elected: 1/1/1793

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1865

Author: Lyall, Edna

Author: Mitchell, S. Weir
Date: 1872

Description: The house carpenter and would-be architect Samuel Webb appeared in the Philadelphia city directories in 1817, the same year he was elected to The Carpenters' Company. He only appeared in the directories through 1819, although The Company continued…
Member number: 273*
Date elected: 1/1/1817

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Description: Wedgewood plate to commemorate 100 years as national shrine with drawing of Hall. Sticker (presently removed from plate due to dirt) saying "From A Lithograph by Grant M. Simon F.A.I.A. inscription on the back says: "CARPENTERS' COMPANY-…
Date: 1957
Item type: 1957 commemorative plate

Description: sticker (presently removed from plate due to dirt) saying "From A Lithograph by Grant M. Simon F.A.I.A. inscription on the back says: "CARPENTERS' COMPANY- PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. COMMEMORATING THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE HALL AS…
Date: 1957
Item type: 1957 commemorative plate

Description: sticker (presently removed from plate due to dirt) saying "From A Lithograph by Grant M. Simon F.A.I.A. inscription on the back says: "CARPENTERS' COMPANY- PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. COMMEMORATING THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE HALL AS…
Date: 1957
Item type: 1957 commemorative plate

Author: Carey, Rosa N.
Date: 1887

Description: William Weer was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. According to the 1830 Philadelphia City Directory, he lived at 179 Cherry street. Weer was also spelled Weir. William Weer died in 1857.Biography from the…
Member number: 312a*
Date elected: 1/1/1833

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1882

Description: James William Weir was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1811. He served the Company as Warden and also on the Managing Committee and Book Prices Committee. Around 1837 he taught architectural drawing at the Carpenters' Company school.Written by…
Member number: 249*
Date elected: 1/1/1811

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore.
Date: 1864

Author: Holmes, Mary J.
Date: 1875

Author: Leedom, B.J.

Description: The master builder, lumber merchant, and Philadelphia Inspector of Lumber, Joseph Wetherill, was the son of Christopher and Mary (Stockton) Wetherill. In 1764 he married Anna Canby of Solebury Township, Bucks County, PA, in the Philadelphia Monthly…
Member number: 124*
Birth date: 7/10/1740
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Member number: 282*
Date elected: 1/1/1823

Author: Hodge, Charles
Date: 1874

Author: Theed, Marion Fasbroke
Date: 1871
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