| Title |
Kraft, Lewis |
| Date |
b. ca. 1811 |
| Description |
Lewis Kraft, born in Germany ca. 1811, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia by 1850. He immigrated to the United States
by 1849; the year his son Charles was born in Pennsylvania. He resided on Spruce Street in southeast Center City (Pine Ward)
with his German-born wife Wilhelmina (b. ca. 1818) and three sons William (b. ca. 1842), Julius (b. ca. 1845) and Charles
(b. ca. 1849).
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Possibly the same Lewis C. Kraft listed as a ropemaker in the 1864 Philadelphia city directory. |
| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 |
|
Groce & Wallace, 376 |
|
Merrill, 141-142 |
|
Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1864 |
|
WWWAA, 1898 |
