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Title Lehman, William H.
Date 1847-November 6, 1878
Description William H. Lehman, partner in the lithographic firm Lehman & Bolton, was born in 1847 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Born to German emigrants, merchant miller Henry (b. 1819) and Sophia (b. 1818), William had three Pennsylvania-born siblings: Amelia R. (b. 1844), Emma M. (b. 1846), and Clara (b. 1855), all of with whom he lived in 1860.
A clerk during the late 1860s, Lehman partnered with lithographer Mahlon Bolton, Jr. in 1873 to form Lehman & Bolton at the former establishment of Jacob Haehnlen at Goldsmiths' Hall. The firm operated until 1920. By 1870 William resided at 2214 Wallace Street with his wife Isabell (b. 1851) and child Clara (b. 1874). Though the business bore his name until 1920, Lehman died prematurely at the age of thirty-one in 1878. William's wife and daughter resided with his business partner Mahlon Bolton and his family after his death.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Haehnlen, Jacob and Lehman & Bolton.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1860, 1870 and 1880
Library Company of Philadelphia research file
North American, November 7, 1878
Philadelphia City Directories 1864-1878 (intermittently)
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1878
Sunday Dispatch, November 10, 1878