| Title |
Thurwanger, Joseph |
| Date |
March 1836-after 1910 |
| Description |
Joseph Thurwanger, born March, 1836 in New York to German parents Francis Thurwanger and Verena Kohler, worked as a lithographer,
printer, and tavern keeper in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1883. The Thurwangers moved from New York to Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
where Francis operated an eating house by 1850. The Thurwangers relocated to Philadelphia by 1855, when city directories list
Francis as a trimmer working from 92 South Twelfth Street. After his father's death, Thurwanger's mother, a portrait, genre
and religious painter, continued the business as a picture seller from 1711 Sansom Street in 1859. By 1860, the family resided,
without Francis, in Center City (Ward 8). Thurwanger's brothers John and Charles were also lithographers.
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Thurwanger married Allwina (b. ca. 1840, Germany), resided in Kensington (Ward 20), and had an infant son Henry, by 1870.
By 1880, the family remained in Kensington and included another three children at 1526 Thompson Street. The Thurwanger family
moved to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania ca. 1883. The 1900 census lists another son, born in 1882, and lists Thurwanger as a widow.
He remained in Lansdowne until his death sometime after 1910.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Thurwanger, Charles and Thurwanger, John |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910 |
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Groce & Wallace, 629 |
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Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1855-1882 (intermittently) |
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WWWAA, 3300 |
