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- Yearsley, Joseph
- Joseph Yearsley, born ca. 1834 in Delaware, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1855 until his death in 1868. He was a member of Minerva Lodge, No. 224, I. O. of O. F. and the Lithographers Printers Union of Philadelphia. Yearsley originally resided with Delaware-born Maria Dowden (b. ca. 1795) in Moyamensing (Ward 2) as a teen in 1850, and in Ward 20 by 1860 with his Pennsylvania-born wife Catherine (b. ca. 1839) and two children, Emma (b. 1858) and Warren (b. 1859), a Girard College alum and "dye works" chemist. When Yearsley died of consumption in 1868, he lived with his family at 702 Stewart Street (Ward 4). After his death, his daughter Emma resided with an Anna Stern on Good Street in Germantown.
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- Young, Andrew H.
- Andrew H. Young, born in Pennsylvania in August 1836, worked as an apprentice lithographer in 1860. He lived in Southwest Center City with his Irish-born father James, a laborer; mother Mary; and four younger Pennsylvania-born siblings. Young worked as a policeman by the later 1860s and until the early 1870s, when he began a career as a clerk and inspector for the Philadelphia Gas Works. By this time, he had married Jane (b. ca. 1845), started a family and settled at 1730 Barker i.e., Ludlow Street in Center City (Ward 9). Shortly after 1900 he moved with his family to 5600 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia (Ward 40), where he passed away on April 3, 1911 at the age of 75.
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- Zabiensky, Adolph Ferdinand
- Adolph Ferdinand Zabiensky, a Philadelphia and Camden engraver, lithographer, and printer, born in Enger, Germany on February 9, 1822, worked in the cities ca. 1850-1900. Zabiensky emigrated to Philadelphia in 1842. During the 1850s, he was naturalized (March 15, 1853) and served as the Vice President of the Lithographic Printers Union (1850), a position he was nominated for in the early 1860s as well. From 1887 to 1888, he worked as a lithographer for the Philadelphia, later Camden firm of Pfeil & Golz Co. and retired by 1900. A resident of Philadelphia for his entire career, Zabiensky lived at 206 Brown Street for most, if not all, of his life. Zabiensky died suddenly on November 5, 1904 at Twenty-Fifth and Thompson Streets.
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- Zell, Christian
- Christian Zell, born ca. 1830 in Maryland, worked as a painter in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia and opening a retail liquor store. It is probable that he was accidentally listed as a lithographer operating at 510 South Fifteenth Street in the Philadelphia Business Directory for 1859. Every other directory between the years 1858 and 1868, along with IRS tax assessment information, list him as a tavern keeper or retail liquor store owner at 510 South Eighteenth Street., The 1850 census indicates Zell lived in Baltimore with his brother Henry (b. ca. 1833), in Josiah G. Keller's household in Ward 19. On November 3, 1850, Zell married Eleanor McGleun and by 1860, they lived in Ward 7 in Philadelphia with four children: Amelia (b. ca. 1849), Henry (b. ca. 1851), Josiah (b. ca. 1855) and Christiana (b. ca. 1858). Ten years later, Zell resided again with Josiah Keller in Baltimore with sons Henry and John (b. ca. 1861) and worked as a painter.