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Joseph Yearsley, born ca. 1834 in Delaware, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1855 until his death in 1868. He
was a member of Minerva Lodge, No. 224, I. O. of O. F. and the Lithographers Printers Union of Philadelphia. Yearsley originally
resided with Delaware-born Maria Dowden (b. ca. 1795) in Moyamensing (Ward 2) as a teen in 1850, and in Ward 20 by 1860 with
his Pennsylvania-born wife Catherine (b. ca. 1839) and two children, Emma (b. 1858) and Warren (b. 1859), a Girard College
alum and "dye works" chemist. When Yearsley died of consumption in 1868, he lived with his family at 702 Stewart Street (Ward
4). After his death, his daughter Emma resided with an Anna Stern on Good Street in Germantown.
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