| Title |
Conklin, Jacob M. |
| Date |
b. ca. 1840 |
| Description |
Jacob M. Conklin, born ca. 1840 in Vermont, worked as a lithographer and shirt manufacturer in Philadelphia. A member of the
Lithographic Printers Union, serving as secretary in 1862, Conklin was employed by P. S. Duval & Co. at 22 South Fifth Street
in 1858. By 1866, he partnered in Conklin & Gibbons at the southeast corner of Dock & Walnut Streets. Two years later he tenanted
148 1/2 Walnut Street, the same address as fellow lithographers Samuel B. Linton and Daniel O'Donnell. Conklin switched trades
in 1872 and opened a varieties and furnishing store at 1221 Girard Avenue, where the business remained until the late 1880s.
By the early 1890s the business had relocated at 1132 Arch Street.
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During the 1860s, Conklin resided at 906 Ontario Street (Ward 25). In the 1870s he lived near his "gentleman's furnishing"
business at 1238 Girard Avenue (Ward 14), and in the 1880s he resided at 538 North Eleventh Street (Ward 10). In the 1890s
he lived with his wife Margaret W. (b. ca. 1840) and her sister Nancy M. Platt (b. ca. 1837) at 330 Arch Street in Camden,
N.J.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Duval, P. S.; Linton, Samuel B.; and O'Donnell, Daniel. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1880 |
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Philadelphia City Directories 1858-1891 (intermittently) |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 1, 1862 and December 5, 1862 |
