Title |
Godber, John |
Alternate title |
Godver, John |
Date |
b. ca. 1841 |
Description |
John Godber, lithographer and printer, born of French heritage ca. 1841 in New York, worked in the trade in Philadelphia ca.
1860-ca. 1890. Although a foreman for Herline & Co. and then Howard B. Hamilton (39 North Tenth Street) 1873-1874, Godber
did engage in photography for a brief time as a partner in the photographic studio W. H. Keller & Co. (322 North Second Street)
in 1872. After 1890, Godber was listed in city directories until 1894 as a grocer.
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Godber resided in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia by 1860, with presumably his siblings, Mary (b. ca. 1830, France) and Constance
(b. ca. 1840, France) Agnes (b. ca. 1844, N.Y.) and Titus (b. ca. 1848, N.J.). He remained in the Seventh Ward neighborhood
on the 1200 block of Shippen (i.e., Bainbridge) Street until ca. 1870, when he relocated to 1033 Fernon Street in South Philadelphia
(Ward 1) with his wife Annie (b. ca. 1840) and daughter Susan (b. 1862). By 1879, Godber resided on South Tenth Street, first
at 2025 and after 1886 at 2039 South Tenth Street.
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Although listed as white in census records, Godber's entry in the 1863 edition of the Philadelphia city directory was annotated
to indicate that he was "colored." If a correct annotation, Godber would be the only known named black lithographer in 19th-century
Philadelphia directories 1828-1878.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Herline, Edward and Hamilton, Howard B. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories 1862-1894 (intermittently) |