| Title |
Loag, Samuel |
| Date |
October 30, 1835-December 14, 1894 |
| Description |
Samuel Loag, born in 1835 in Pennsylvania to David and Ann Loag (1794-1878), worked as a job, wood block, and lithographic
printer in Philadelphia ca. 1860 until his death in 1894. He produced cards, billheads, broadside posters, pamphlets, book
illustrations and sheet music covers from his first known business address at 57 South Fourth Street. Between ca. 1862 and
1865, Loag tenanted the building also occupied by William H. Rease. By January 1866, he relocated to 610-614 Sansom Street.
The "commodious rooms in Sansom Street Hall" included new steam presses and his brother and printer William as a fellow tenant.
By 1870 Loag operated a successful business and held personal estate valued at $20,000. His shop remained on Sansom Street
until his death over twenty years later.
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At the beginning of his career in the printing trade in 1860, Loag resided at 1430 South Third Street in South Philadelphia
(Ward 2) with his parents. He married Anna Frances Powell (1835-1905) in January 1861 with whom he had four daughters, all
born in Pennsylvania, except for Elizabeth (b. ca. 1869) born when the family relocated to Beverly, New Jersey. By 1880, the
family returned to Philadelphia where they resided at 3210 Race Street in West Philadelphia, Loag's residence at the time
of his death on December 19, 1894.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Rease, W. H. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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Last, 205 |
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Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1861-1894 |
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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9, 1865 and December 16, 1894 |
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U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 |
