| Title |
Winch, Alden |
| Date |
1816-September 17, 1882 |
| Description |
Alden Winch, born in Holden, Massachusetts in 1816, was a Philadelphia bookseller, publisher and paper agent, who sold lithographed
political cartoons during the mid 19th century. He relocated to Philadelphia in 1846 and started a wholesale house at 320
Chestnut Street in 1849, in which in 1860, lithograph firm Wm. F. Murphy & Sons also operated. In 1869, Winch, a member of
the Union League, sold his business to the Central News Company and served as its manager until four years before his death
on September 17, 1882. Winch was buried in New England.
|
| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Wm F. Murphy & Sons. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Peters, 404 |
|
Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1848-1881 |
|
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 18, 1882 |
|
Worcester Daily Spy, September 21, 1882 |
