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Description: Samuel McClure was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1774. For a brief period (1781-1782) he served The Company as a Warden. In 1779 he was assessed for a tax of 1 pound and 10 shillings for the state tax in the Dock…
Member number: 102*
Date elected: 1/1/1774

Description: John McClure was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1839. He served on the Carpenters' Company Library Committee from 1854-1857. In 1835, McClure was listed at 64 Spruce street in the City Directory. The Directory…
Member number: 341
Date elected: 1/1/1839

Description: Francis McClester was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785, but was never an active member. He was proposed by Robert Allison. In 1779 following the recapture of Philadelphia from the British, McClester was provided materials…
Member number: 151*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Member number: 478
Date elected: 8/1/1888

Member number: 475*
Date elected: 1/16/1888

Member number: 454
Date elected: 8/3/1881

Description: Uncle to the more famous John McArthur, Jr., John McArthur was a master builder in Philadelphia. According to the sparse biographical information found, he was born in Oban, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States when he was 30 years old. His…
Member number: 363*
Date elected: 1/1/1851

Author: Wallace, Alfred
Date: 1869

Author: Hubback, Mrs
Date: 1866

Description: Caleb Maule was a master builder and lumber merchant elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1817. He lived at 93 Callowhill street in 1814 but moved to various other locations throughout the rest of his life.( See his file at the…
Member number: 275*
Birth date: 9/22/1790
Date elected: 1/1/1817

Description: Josiah Matlack was a Dock Ward master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and in 1786 signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company when the two companies of master carpenters merged. He was an "encourager" of…
Member number: 136*
Birth date: 1/1/1749
Date elected: 1/16/1786

Author: Dupin, Baron Charles
Date: 1827

Author: Gregory, Olinthus
Date: 1825

Author: Gregory, Olinthus
Date: 1825

Description: wooden match plane with an adjustable fence. Blade has very little rust. Tip of wedge is broken off. Wood of the body has small ~1cm chip on side near the heel. Donated to the Company by Alfred L. MacMoran February 19, 1997.
Date: 19th C?
Item type: plane

Author: Marryat, Capt.
Date: 1888

Author: Barr, Amelia E.
Date: 1888

Author: White, Henry
Date: 1868

Author: Crawford, F. Marion.
Date: 1887

Author: Mac Donald, George
Date: 1881

Author: Blackmore, R. D.
Date: 1880

Author: Holder, Charles F.
Date: 1885

Author: Duchess, The. (M. Argles Hundergford.)
Date: 1888

Author: Harte, Bret.
Date: 1886

Author: Charles, E. R.
Date: 1865

Author: Reade, Winwood
Date: 1874

Author: Dickens, Charles.

Member number: 457
Date elected: 5/2/1883

Member number: 386
Date elected: 1/21/1861

Member number: 407
Birth date: 1/1/1823
Date elected: 4/15/1867

Author: Smith, Julie P.
Date: 1872

Author: Valdes, Don Armando Palacio
Date: 1880
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