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Title Linton, Samuel B. (Samuel Benton
Date June 3, 1838-August 28, 1927
Description Samuel B. Linton, born June 1838 in Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania, worked in Philadelphia during the 1860s and 1870s as a lithographer who specialized in maps. As a child, Linton relocated to Washington D.C. with his family when his father was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department. Before entering the lithography trade, Linton, at age sixteen, began work as a draughtsman for the U. S. Coast Survey. He continued as a draughtsman through much of the Civil War, relocating to Philadelphia soon after his marriage in 1864. About this time he began work as a map draughtsman with G. M. Hopkins. City directories first listed Linton as a lithographer in 1867 at 517 Prune Street. By the following year, Linton had relocated his establishment to 148 - 148 1/2 South Fourth Street (same address as lithographers Jacob M. Conklin and Daniel O'Donnell). During the 1860s and 1870s Linton surveyed and lithographed maps of Civil War sites, the states, and Philadelphia, including the 1872 "Map of the Wissahickon Creek from its Mouth to Paul's Mill Road" and the 1876 "Outline Map of the County and City of Philadelphia." During his career, Linton also worked for the Union Railway and map publisher O. N. Gray, the latter on his 1878 “National Atlas.” He was also a church leader and missionary who helped to organize the Mantawna and Woodland Baptist churches in Philadelphia.
Linton worked from the Fourth Street location until circa 1883 when he left the trade to pursue farming in Chester, Pa. (his residence since 1879). By 1889, he returned to Pennsylvania (Ridley Park) and in 1890 to survey work and soon thereafter lithography at 410 Walnut Street. As of 1918, Linton continued to be listed in city directories at 410 Walnut Street with a residence at 513 Woodland Terrace in West Philadelphia. By 1920, Linton returned to Chester in Devon with his wife Mary (1842-1940) and daughter Catherine Linton Cornelius (1876-1976) whose family lived with him and his wife in 1910.
Linton married Mary Salome Latch in 1864 and had eight children with seven living to adulthood. During the late 1860s and the 1870s, the family resided in Roxborough before their relocation to Chester in 1879. Linton passed away in Devon on August 28, 1897.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Conklin, Jacob M. and O'Donnell, Daniel.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
Library Company of Philadelphia research file
Philadelphia Business and City Directories 1867-1910 (intermittently)
Personal correspondence from descendant July 31, 2014
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