Title |
Murchison, William W. |
Date |
b. ca. 1838 |
Description |
William W. Murchison, born ca. 1838 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1866-ca. 1890. He practiced
the trade at the firm of Breuker and Kessler (112 South Seventh Street) in the late 1860s and was a member of the Lithographic
Printers Union. Between the late 1860s and 1880, he resided at 913 North Tenth Street, 206 Ristine Street (1866-1869), 519
South Fifth Street (1873), and 510 Federal Street (1880).
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Murchison was married to Jane (b. ca. 1845), with whom he resided with his sister-in-laws by 1880. In 1890, he continued to
work as a printer and lived at 924 Morgan Street.
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Possibly the William Murchison who worked for P. S. Duval. |
Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Breuker & Kessler and Murchison, William. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Census 1880 |
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George D. Shubert Diary, 1866, Temple Special Collections |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1866-1890 (intermittently) |