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Title: Ross, Charles
Description: Charles Ross, born in Pennsylvania in 1840, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia between 1861 and ca. 1890. Early in his career in the 1860s, Ross resided in Northern Liberties at 109 Green Street (Ward 11) and 929 North Front with his wife Kate Clancy (ca. 1838-1862), and fellow lithographer and brother-in-law Peter Clancy. Possibly the same Charles Ross who relocated to 1001 Wistar Street in 1864 and resided about ten years (1867-1877) at 1737 Moravian Street.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Robyn, Edward
Description: Edward Robyn, born ca. 1821 in Emmerich, Westphalia, was an artist and lithographer who worked in the lithographic trade in Philadelphia 1848-1850. Son of cloth dealer Diedrich Robyn, Robyn arrived in the United States in St. Louis in 1846. Although first listed in Philadelphia city directories in 1848 as a lithographer at the southeast corner of Third and Pear Streets, he delineated a view of the new Odd Fellows Hall printed by William Hart ca. 1847. In the late 1840s, Robyn also designed a Philadelphia Sabbath Association certificate printed by Thomas Sinclair. By 1850 he had partnered with William Dreser as Dreser & Robyn at 93 South Third Street (Robyn's address on the Odd Fellow print). The two had previously delineated plates for the gift book 'Pearls of American Poetry" (1847?). By October 1850 despite remaining listed in the Philadelphia city directory as an artist at 31 Merchant's Exchange with a residence at 14 Spruce Street. he had relocated to St. Louis, Mo. as recorded in the census for that year., Robyn partnered in a lithographic establishment with his brother Charles in St. Louis until 1857. The firm issued mainly Western town views. During this time Robyn also created his panorama "A Tour of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere" held at the Missouri Historical Society. By 1860 Robyn relocated to Hermann, Mo. due to his health (tuberculosis) and became a farmer. He died there in 1862., Robyn was married to Julia (b. ca. 1826) with whom he had seven children by 1860.
Date: ca. 1821-1862
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Herline, Edward (Otto)
Description: Edward Otto Herline, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in June 1825 was a Philadelphia engraver and lithographer known for his artistry who produced lithographs for all branches of the field, including book illustrations, maps, and advertising and view prints. One of six children of printer Gustaff Herline and Kunigune Siebenkaes, Herline emigrated to New York with his brother Gustavus (1829-1884, a lithographer in Cincinnati and later a silver plater in Pittsburgh) on the ship Alfred in July 1848., Herline soon thereafter relocated to Philadelphia, married German-born Amelia Zeitz (1828-1887), the daughter of a Philadelphia shoemaker, and worked as a lithographer by 1850. Working under the firm name Herline & Co. by 1856, Herline worked in a series of partnerships thereafter, including most notably with Daniel Hensel (1830-1919) with whom he entered into business at 630 Chestnut Street in 1857., Partnered with Hensel until ca. 1866, the firm was active in chromolithography, issued lithographs for the German American community, and produced prints for government reports, including near $100 worth of work for "Governor Stevens's" report in 1860. The firm proved successful and Herline earned enough income to be taxed throughout the Civil War from his home address at 1717 Wylie Street. By 1867, Herline relocated his residence to 1017 Wistar Street and served as sole proprietor of an establishment noted to produce labels, certificates, and checks that "employs a large number of persons." Those employed by Herline included artists James T. Palmatary, Emil F. Beaulieu, and Peter Moran., Circa 1869, Herline took on another new partner (Howard B. Hamilton) and a home address (504 N. 11th) that housed his immediate family, a niece Julia Shomaker, and housekeeper. The new partnership, again called Herline & Co., operated from 630 Chestnut Street, then 39 South Tenth Street until 1872. Over the next five years, Herline would work as a painter, partner in the lithographic firm Herline & Kane (328 Chestnut), and move his residence to 475 North Fourth Street before settling at 78 Garden Street in Hoboken, NJ as of 1880., While residing in NJ, Herline worked as an engraver and by 1900 as a glass sign manufacturer with his sons Emil F. (1850-1914) and Adolph (1852-1918) until his death in 1902. At the end of his life, Herline, a widower, lived with his daughter Helen (b. ca. 1856) and son-in-law Julius Lach in Jersey City. His colleague sons resided at the address as well while his fourth child Edward Otto, Jr. (b. August 28, 1855) resided elsewhere.
Date: June 1825-1902
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Crawford, William
Description: William Crawford, born ca. 1834 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographic printer in Philadelphia in the early 1870s. His professional associations probably included lithographer John H. Camp, with whom he resided during that time at 409 North Fourth Street., Previous to his lithographic work (1860s) and again by 1876, Crawford worked as a druggist at 141 Market Street. Other than his residency with Camp, Crawford resided at 123 Noble Street during these decades.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Thurwanger, Martin T.
Description: Martin T. Thurwanger, born in the Alsace region of France, trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and was a student of lithography under Bernard-Roman Julien (1802-1871). He worked as a lithographer and mezzotint engraver in Paris before traveling to Philadelphia on a commission by the Smithsonian Institution with his apprentice, Max Rosenthal. Known primarily for his talent in pen-and-ink lithography, Thurwanger returned to Paris within five years of arriving in the states. He died in 1890., Weitenkampf notes a pen-and-ink lithograph portrait of E[dward] Biddle by the lithographer.
Date: d. 1890
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Bottles, Joseph
Description: Joseph Bottles, born ca. 1825 in New Jersey, worked as a lithographer, blind maker, salesman, clerk and printer in Philadelphia between 1852 and 1868. While in Philadelphia, he resided with the Britton family, in Southwark Wards 2 and 4 of the city, on Washington Avenue in the 1850s, and 322 Federal Street in the 1860s and 1870s., Bottles enlisted in the United States Navy in 1863 and became a yeomen for the USS Saratoga. After being discharged in 1864, he returned to Philadelphia in poor health, assumed to be suffering from "rheumatism," and did not work for at least a year before returning to the lithographic trade. By the fall of 1868 Bottles had moved to Lockport, New York where in 1870 he resided with presumably wife Mary, despite his listing as single in his application to the Home for Disabled Soldiers in Marion, Indiana in 1892. Bottles died on May 12, 1900 and is buried in the Marion National Cemetery.
Date: ca. 1825-1900
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stott, William
Description: William Stott worked as a lithographer and engraver in Philadelphia 1847-1853. He partnered in Stott & Durang ca. 1845, and operated a lithographic establishment at 62 (i.e., 300 block) Walnut Street and then 97 (i.e., 300 block) Chestnut Street 1847-1848., Stott's known lithographs include frontispieces, title pages, portraits, and advertisements.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Sachs, Frederick
Description: Frederick Sachs, born ca. 1817 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided in the Pine Ward as the head of a household that included his wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1824) and three children, including two born between ca. 1845 and ca. 1846 in Germany and a son born in Pennsylvania ca. 1848.
Date: b. ca. 1817
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Kennedy, David
Description: See Kennedy & Lucas.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Weaver, M. S. (Matthias Shirk)
Description: Matthias Shirk Weaver, born on November 25, 1816 probably in New Holland, Pennsylvania, studied and worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia 1838-1845. He made yearly trips back to visit family in Ohio and on September 15, 1842 during an Ohio visit married Eliza Burgert. Together they had one son, Henry Matthias, who lived to adulthood. Matthias Weaver died of consumption in Summit County, Ohio on October 20, 1847., Weaver came to Philadelphia to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1838. To support himself, he worked as a lithographic artist, predominately with printer Thomas Sinclair, drawing large Philadelphia business advertisements, portraits, membership certificates, book illustrations, sheet music covers, and maps. Some of Weaver's most noted work comprised plates for texts authored by the Philadelphia's scientific and medical community, including Dr. Samuel George Morton's Crania Americana (1839) and Crania Aegyptiaca (1844)., Weaver had an active social life while living in Philadelphia, playing in a musical society, joining the William Wirt Library and Literary Institute, and attending lectures and theater performances. Weaver recorded thoughts about his work and his personal life, including socializing with Philadelphia lithographer William Rease, in diaries he kept between 1840 and 1843, now in the possession of the Ohio Historical Society. In failing health and frustrated with lithography as a profession, Weaver, along with his young family, returned to Ohio in 1845. He died a month before his thirty-first birthday on October 20, 1847.
Date: November 25, 1816 - October 20, 1847
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Tholey, Charles P.
Description: See Tholeys.
Date: 1832-April 26, 1895
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Chevalier, Leonard F.
Description: Leonard Chevalier, born in France about 1820, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey between 1852 and 1861. In 1858, he worked for P. S. Duval & Co. at 22 South Fifth Street., In 1850, Chevalier resided in the Southwark Ward of the city (Ward 4) with Susan Chevalier (b. ca. 1829) and the Dorff family. By 1853, the Chevaliers were living in Camden, NJ.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Otis, Bass
Description: Bass Otis, Philadelphia portrait painter born July 17, 1784 in East Bridgewater, Ma., produced the first American lithograph in 1819. Son of physician Josiah Otis (1749-1808) and Susanna Orr (1752-1836), Otis worked as an apprentice to a scythe maker or a nail/tack manufacturer before entering the arts, possibly as a student of Gilbert Stuart in Boston. In 1808 Otis relocated to New York, purportedly studied with John Wesley Jarvis, and by 1810 had gained a reputation as an artist. Two years later, he arrived in Philadelphia and cemented his career in the field. Between 1812 and 1824, he was elected to the Society of Artists in the United States, Columbian Society of Artists, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he often exhibited., During this period, the "ingenious and enterprising artist of Philadelphia," drew and printed the first extant American lithograph, a modest image of a mill that accompanied a six-page descriptive account of the process by University of Pennsylvania chemistry professor Thomas Cooper in the July 1819 edition of the "Analectic Magazine." The lithograph, for which he received $15 from the periodical, was drawn on Bavarian limestone borrowed from the American Philosophical Society for conducting "experiments in the art of lithographic engraving" by Otis and Dr. Samuel Brown, a physician and chemist., Although Otis predominately focused on portrait painting after 1819, and worked and resided mainly in Philadelphia, he did draw a lithograph portrait for New York lithographer Albert Imbert in 1826. In addition, an undated lithographic stone signed by Otis with an image of "Christ Healing the Sick" is held in the collections of the National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa., Otis was married in 1813 to Alice Pierie (1796-1842) with whom he had six children. During his residencies in Philadelphia, Otis lived in Center City, including the 500 block of Cherry Street during his experimentation with lithography. On November 3, 1816, Otis died in his residence at 805 Spring Garden Street and was buried in the cemetery of Christ Church.
Date: July 17, 1784- November 3, 1861
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Weik, John
Description: John Weik, born ca. 1827 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a book seller, stationer, and print publisher in Philadelphia ca. 1851-ca. 1872. Weik immigrated to Philadelphia in 1850 and soon after started the naturalization process and entered the city's publishing industry, including lithographs. In 1851, he operated a book and stationery store at 155 North Third Street. From 1857 to ca. 1860, he partnered with Hugo Liebing to form the book publishing and importing business John Weik & Co. at 533 Chestnut Street. During the 1850s and 1860s, Weik traveled between Germany and Philadelphia several times, presumably to enhance his shop's collection of German works. Weik also published lithographs, many of them bird's eye views, including Bachmann's "Bird's Eye View of Philadelphia" printed by P.S. Duval & Son (1857), Herline's "Microscopic View of New York" (1870), and a map of Boston, Massachusetts (1870) designed by F. Fuchs., Weik enlisted in the Civil War as a Quartermaster on September 11, 1861 and several months later joined Company S of the 75th Regiment of Pennsylvania. Mustered out on September 1, 1865 in Franklin, Tennessee, Weik did not reappear in Philadelphia city directories until 1870. He resumed publishing activities from 605 Sansom Street for a few years, and owned personal estate worth $30,000, but switched to real estate between 1873 and 1878. By 1879, he manufactured clay heaters from 605 Sansom Street., Although Weik first settled in Kensington when he arrived in Philadelphia, he resided at Forty-fourth and Eadline (i.e., Wallace) Streets in West Philadelphia (Ward 24, now Powelton Village) for the rest of his life. He married the Pennsylvania-born Maria L. (1817-1902) by 1850 and had an infant daughter, also Maria L (b. 1850). Two more children, Anna R. (b. 1852) and John A. (b. 1854), were born before Weik enlisted in the war. Weik presumably died ca. 1890, the same year that his wife filed as a widow to receive his pension. Mary Weik died in New York City in 1892.
Date: b. ca. 1827-ca. 1890
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Binder, Horace
Description: Horace Binder, born ca. 1851 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia ca. 1879-1905. He operated his own lithographic establishment solely at 607 Chestnut Street until 1889 and as Binder & Kelly at 518 Minor Street between 1890 and 1894., In 1880, Binder lived in the household of his father George A. (b. ca. 1821), a retired builder, at the rear of 928 North Marshall Street. He resided with his mother Miriam (b. ca. 1823), and siblings, including Clarence (b. ca. 1844), a professor at Polytechnic College. By 1890, he remained at his parent's residence with his wife Anna W. (b. ca. 1848), with whom he had daughter Mary (b. January 1867) who married artist Xantus Smith. In 1894, he was elected a member of the Academy of Natural Science for which he acted as printer. Binder died on March 21, 1906 with his residence, since 1903, at 1301 West Susquehanna Avenue. He was buried at the Catholic cemetery, Cathedral Cemetery.
Date: b. March 1850- March 21, 1906
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Scheible, William F.
Description: William F. Scheible, born ca. 1822 in Pennsylvania, was a stencil cutter and awning maker, who also practiced lithography during the late 1850s. Scheible operated his establishment from 47-49 South Third Street, which he advertised through an 1859 chromolithographed trade card and broadside illustrated with designs by Philadelphia engraver and lithographer Frederick J. Pilliner. Scheible operated the business until ca. 1876 and his death when his wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1837) assumed operations of the business that was reestablished as Scheible & Co. Scheible also exhibited embossed cards praised for their "beautiful execution" at the 1856 Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufacturers; earned enough income to be taxed during the Civil War; and in the 1870 census reported personal estate valued at $3,000 (i.e., $51,000 in 2008) in addition to his wife's real estate valued at $7,000., Throughout the 1860s and 1870s Scheible resided in North Philadelphia with his wife and children at 821 Duane Street (1860-1862), 1524 North Twelfth Street (1863-1875), and 2036 North Twelfth Street (1876).
Date: b. ca. 1822-ca. 1876
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Steng & Paxson
Description: Steng & Paxson, the partnership between August Steng and Francis C. Paxson (1840-1900), was active in the Philadelphia lithographic trade 1872-1877. The firm located at 326 Chestnut Street specialized in job printing for the banking trade, including checks, certificates, and notes., Following the dissolution of the partnership, Steng partnered briefly with William Boell and continued to work as a printer in the city until ca. 1883. He may be the August Steng listed as a butcher in city directories 1888-1890. Steng primarily resided in North Philadelphia, including 522 North Third Street (1873) and 2538 North Alder Street (1877-1881), during his time in the printing trade. In 1883, he resided in Center City., Paxson also remained in the lithographic trade until the early 1880s in the firm F. C. Paxson & Co. (439 Chestnut Street). A salesman and a clerk before partnering with Steng, Paxson lived in Center City and Germantown while he worked as a lithographer. His residences included 529 North Nineteenth Street (ca. 1870-ca. 1879). Paxson died on February 11, 1900 with his late residence on Clarkson Avenue in Germantown.
Date: fl. 1872-1877
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Ludwig, William
Description: William Ludwig, born ca. 1834 in Brunswick, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Ward 5 with his wife German-born (b. ca. 1835) and children Caroline, Thomas, and Henry.
Date: b. ca. 1834
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Brunner, Jacob
Description: Jacob Brunner, born ca. 1820 in Switzerland, worked 1855-ca. 1860 as a lithographer at Robert Pearsall Smith's publishing house at 17-19, i.e., 519 Minor Street. He was married to Margaret (b. ca. 1827), and had two children, Alla (b. ca. 1854) and Bertha (b. ca. 1856). A resident of Camden, N.J. beginning ca. 1856, Brunner was employed as a gunsmith by 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hitchins, Robert J.
Description: Robert J. Hitchins, proprietor of two lithographic firms in Philadelphia in the early to mid 1870s and a member of the Quaker City Council, was born in Whitehall, New York in 1849. His English parents moved the family to South Philadelphia by 1868, where two years later Hitchins partnered with George H. Douglas to form the lithography business of Hitchins & Douglas at 203 Race Street. The partnership dissolved after around a year, and by 1876 Robert had formed another business, Altemus & Hitchins, with book binder Alfred C. Altemus at 20 North Seventh Street., By 1880 Hitchins had relocated with his family, including his wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1858) and four children, to Boston, Ma. where he worked as a lithographer. Hitchins returned to Philadelphia with three Massachusetts-born children by 1887 and resided in South Philadelphia. In 1900 eleven children lived in the Hitchins household in South Philadelphia and Robert continued to work as a lithographer according to Philadelphia city directories and census data. He died on February 4, 1914.
Date: 1849-February 4, 1914
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Barton, Peter
Description: Peter Barton, born ca. 1816 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He lived with presumably his brother, and fellow lithographer, Samuel Barton (b. ca. 1831) in a hotel in the Sixth Ward. Sarah Barton, (b. ca. 1840), possibly a sister, resided with the men as well.
Date: b. ca. 1816
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Barincou, J.
Description: See F. Barinsou.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Breuker & Kessler
Description: Breuker & Kessler was a practical and commercial lithographic establishment formed by George W. Breuker, Sr. and Harry C. Kessler, Sr. in January 1866 at the southwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets. Both men had previously worked for Jacob Haehnlen (125 South Third Street) - Kessler as a clerk and bookkeeper, and Breuker as a lithographer. Following the establishment of Breuker & Kessler, a number of Haehnlen's lithographers, including George D. Shubert, relocated to the new firm by February 1866. The firm produced drug, perfume, wine and liquor labels, trade cards, show cards, maps and "all kinds of commercial engravings.", During the 1870s, Breuker & Kessler contributed a photographic advertisement showing the business's building surrounded by bank checks to Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown's "Gallery of Arts and Manufacturers of Philadelphia" (1871); promoted their special method of printing bonds to prevent counterfeiting in 1874; and issued an 1875 view of a proposed building for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 for which they lost a copyright infringement cased filed by Toudy & Co. Other work includes a view of the proposed building for City Hall titled "New Public Buildings, Broad & Market Sts., Philadelphia" (ca. 1880s)., Family members of both Breuker and Kessler worked for the company as lithographers, clerks and bookkeepers until at least the 1920s. Active Breuker family members included Breuker's brother, Charles (b. March 1840) as well as his sons George W., Jr. (b. 1862) who served as vice president in 1907, William (b. 1860), and John C. (1865-1918) who served as president in 1911. Active Kessler family members included his brothers, J. Millard (b. 1848) and William S. (b. 1846), who assumed his portion of Breuker & Kessler when he relocated to Montana in the mid-1870s. In addition, Harry C., Jr. (b. 1883) started his career at Breuker & Kessler with his father upon their return from Montana in 1905 and eventually served as secretary and treasurer of the company until the mid-1920s. Breuker & Kessler, renamed Breuker & Kessler Co., remained active in the trade until the 1930s.
Date: fl. 1866-1930s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: McClaughlin, A. B.
Description: A. B. McClaughlin was the lithographer of "Church of St. Charles Borromeo" printed ca. 1876 by Philadelphia printer Frederick. J. Wade.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Schell, John J.
Description: John J. Schell, born ca. 1821 in Massachusetts, worked as an engraver and possibly lithographer, including in the partnership Jacobus & Schell, in Philadelphia in the 1850s and 1860s. First listed in city directories in 1846 as a broker who resided at 118 Catherine Street, Schell described his occupation as clerk in the 1850 census. By 1856, he partnered in the engraving and (lithographic?) firm Jacobus & Schell at 40 South Third Street. He also worked as a broker and agent for the business that remained intermittently active until ca. 1869., Schell was married to Harriett (b. ca. 1824) with whom he had several children. In 1850, Schell was head of a household that included his family and mother Margaret (1781-1861) in Southwark Ward 3. In 1860, the Schell household, including seven children, resided at 742 South Third Street in Ward 4. Listings in local city directories for Schell ceased in 1872 and Schell's wife headed the household at 827 Tasker Street in the 1880 census.
Date: ca. 1823-ca. 1872
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, John H.
Description: John H. Hart, born ca. 1818 in England, was a lithographer active in Philadelphia between 1854 and ca. 1894. Hart immigrated to the United States and settled in New York in a boarding house in 1850. By 1854 Hart relocated to Philadelphia where he was listed in the city directory as a lithographer with a residence at Orchard above Culvert Street (Northern Liberties). In 1856 he established J. Hart & Co. "Lithographers and Embossers of every description of fancy labels, show cards, &c." at 60 Walnut Street and between 1863 and 1876, operated as sole proprietor of a lithographic establishment at 305 Walnut Street. According to his listings in city directories, Hart remained in printing until 1894, and his likely death., By 1860, Hart owned personal property worth $300 and had married Theresa/Eliza (born ca. 1835-40) with whom, by 1880, he had six children, including cartoonist John F. Hart (1867-1950?). Between 1857 and 1866, Hart resided in South Philadelphia and Frankford and by 1868 relocated to 163 Queen Street in Germantown, where he remained until the 1890s, except for a brief period at 125 Linden Street 1873-1874. Although listed with a Philadelphia business address in the 1860s and 1870s directories, Hart may have also printed from his Germantown residence. Between 1868 and 1888, a series of lithographic views of Germantown after John Richards were issued with Hart's Queen Street address in the imprint. Several of the prints were later published as John Richards' "Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A Series of Sixty Former Landmarks of Germantown and Vicinity... Collated, Arranged and Annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse" (Philadelphia, 1913).
Date: b. ca. 1818
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Stofel, George
Description: George Stofel, born ca. 1815 in Austria, was a Philadelphia lithographer listed in the 1880 census. He resided at 266 South Tenth Street with his lithographer son Robert (b. ca. 1853, Delaware), daughter Mary Bornteen (b. ca. 1851, Austria), and son-in-law. According to his son's birth year, George must have immigrated to the United States by 1853.
Date: b. ca. 1815
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Allen, Michael
Description: Michael Allen was an artist and lithographer active in Philadelphia ca. 1858-ca. 1859. He worked at the establishment of Thomas Wagner at 34 Hudson Street.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dubois, Albert
Description: Albert DuBois, stepson of prominent French artist and lithographer George DuBois, born about 1831 in France, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1852. In 1833, the elder Dubois moved his family to Zweibrucken, Germany where he began his and his family's career in lithography. In July 1848, the family immigrated again and to New York aboard the Talleyrand from Le Havre, France., By 1850, Albert and George were employed as lithographers in Philadelphia, working with Frederick Kuhl and Frederick Bourquin on architectural and genre views. They resided briefly in Northern Liberties (Ward 4) and Camden, New Jersey, before the family relocated to the Boston area by 1853., In 1859, the DuBois family resettled in Fall River, Massachusetts, where by 1866, George and his family were the sole owners of The Fall River Lithographic Company, which created advertising posters, labels, trade cards, fruit boxes, and other ephemera for local manufacturers. Albert, along with many other Dubois family members, worked for the Fall River Lithographic Company. He married Bridget (b. ca. 1843) and had four children by 1870., The original firm dissolved in 1869, at which time Hugo and Oscar, two of George's sons, established the H. W. Dubois & Company. Their business specialized in chromolithography until the company ceased operations in 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Adams, Thomas F.
Description: Thomas F. Adams, born ca. 1815 in South Carolina, worked as a printer, typographer, and "master chemist" for a lamp black (i.e., black pigment) manufactory in Philadelphia from about 1837 to 1880. Adams also authored the seminal work Typographia: A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art (1837) and was a member of the Art Union of Philadelphia, serving as its Secretary in the late 1840s. During the 1840s and 1850s, Adams resided at 18 Jacoby, 8 Carlton Square, and 409 Green Street before settling in 1855 at 1520 Girard Avenue until 1880., Primarily a card printer who used the "Fly Press," his printing establishment also executed lithographic and engraved labels, tickets, bill hands and circulars. Between 1837 and 1850, he relocated his business several times in the vicinity of Old City, including Chestnut & Third Streets (1837); 20 South Fourth Street (1841-42); 118 Chestnut, below Fourth Street (1843); 8 Franklin Place (1844-1845); 85 Dock Street (1846-1847); and 73 North Third Street (1850-1851)., By 1850, Adams married Margaret E., with whom he had a son, Charles T., also a chemist. The same decade, Adams entered the allied trade to lithography of lamp black manufacturing when he established a factory circa 1852 at Twenty-Fifth and Coates Street (i.e., Fairmount Avenue). By the early 1860s, Adams associated with L. Martin & Co., the largest manufacturer of printing inks in the United States, and by 1863, worked at their factory at 138 South Delaware Avenue.
Date: ca. 1815-ca. 1880
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Camp, John Henry
Description: John Henry Camp, born ca. 1821 in Prussia (Germany), was an established engraver, lithographer, and transferrer who worked in Philadelphia ca. 1847-1881. Arriving in the United States before the 1840s, Camp declared his intent to naturalize in Philadelphia in September 1844. The Philadelphia city directories first listed Camp as a lithographer in 1847 with a residence in Northern Liberties at 22 Duke Street. Within a year, having possibly left the employ of P. S. Duval, he formed the short-lived partnership Brechemin & Camp with jeweler and lithographer Louis Brechemin and ca. 1849-1851 worked in a partnership with Augustus Kollner. Kollner served as artist and Camp as printer in their practical lithography firm on Phoenix Block (i.e., Second and Chestnut streets) that produced illustrations for American Sunday School moral lesson books, advertisements, views, and maps., By 1852, the partnership with Kollner ended and Camp tenanted the Artisan Building, Ranstead Place (4th and Chestnut) and was noted for his production of maps for school atlases. He remained at the site until 1856 when fire destroyed his underinsured shop and he joined Theodore Leonhardt and Ferdinand Moras at 609 Chestnut Street (1857-ca. 1860) where he served as head of the printing department and his monetary misfortunes continued. According to credit reports, in 1857, poor financial dealings with the publishing firm H. Cowperthwaite & Co. caused Camp to lose any credit rating. However, he remained in the trade and by 1868, he relocated his own establishment from Seventh and Cherry Streets to 36 South Fifth Street, and began to receive a fair-credit rating. By 1870, however, he again associated with Moras at 609 Chestnut and 610 Jayne streets, where he remained for several years. Camp was also purported by Jackson to have operated the first steam lithographic press in the city., In the early 1870s, Camp added photo-lithography to his printing services and produced a large number of photo-lithographs of views of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. He also assumed sole operation of the 610 Jayne Street establishment in 1877 as well as produced fashion plates for "Godey's Lady's Book." That year, he was reported as "now pays and stands well, has a good stock of plates, does a nice business, and has good credit" and in 1878 had an estimated worth of $20,000. By 1881, he had assumed the business of his brother A. Camp, a dyer, and his son John, Jr. (b. ca. 1853) managed the lithographic establishment. Camp died on April 8, 1881 with an estate estimated at $40, 000 and left his shop with twelve employees and an estimated worth of $20,000 under the management of his son, John, Jr. The firm remained active until 1893 when assumed by Arno Leonhardt, the son of John Sr.'s former associate., Camp lived in North Philadelphia from the beginning of his residency in Philadelphia. By the 1850 census, he lived at Duke Street with his French-born wife Sarah (b. ca. 1823), with whom he had three children, including son John, Jr., as well as his in-laws the Sniders, including brother-in-law George (b. ca. 1840), also a lithographer. Between 1852 and 1869, he and his family resided at 149 Noble Street and in 1870 the Camps relocated to 409 North Fourth Street where "lithograph printer" William Crawford (b. ca. 1834) lived with the Camps in 1870. Camp, who also associated with a number of German organizations, including acting as a director of the German Hospital, and serving as a member of the German Maennerchor and German Society, remained at that address until his death.
Date: ca. 1821-April 8, 1881
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Smith, William
Description: William Smith, not to be confused with Scottish-born lithographer William L. Smith, operated a print shop on the 700 block of South Third Street in Philadelphia ca. 1860-ca. 1891. Originally listed as a picture framer maker in city directories beginning in 1856, Smith published and distributed genre, historical, religious, and portrait lithographs and chromolithographs beginning ca. 1860 from 264, later 706, South Third Street (listed address 1856-1862) and 702 South Third Street (listed address 1863-1891)., Noted lithographs distributed by Smith include "Death of George Shiffler" (ca. 1844-1860); "Washington's Triumphal Entry into New York, Nov. 25th, 1783" printed by P.S. Duval & Son; and the double-sided "Protest Against the British Government" containing a commemorative design in honor of radical Robert Emmett on one side and a portrait of a girl on the other side, possibly as a camouflage.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hallman, Franklin B.
Description: Franklin B. Hallman, born ca. 1827 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in the 1850s. Hallman partnered with lithographer Louis F. Citti in Hallman & Citti at 57 Chestnut Street 1850-1853. Following the dissolution of the partnership, Hallman continued in the trade in the Philadelphia area until 1860 after which time he relocated to Boston. In Boston by 1861, Hallman worked as a lithographer and resided in that area for two decades, including Revere/Chelsea by 1882., While in Philadelphia, Hallman resided in the North Mulberry Ward with his New York-born wife Catherine E. (1832-1898), and son William E. (b. February 1851). After relocating to Massachusetts, they welcomed three more children, Anna A. (b. 1862), John B. (b. 1864) and Daniel B. (b. 1869). By the 1870s, Hallman's sons, William E. and John B., also worked in the lithography trade, the latter in Brooklyn for a short period in 1889. The same year, Hallman worked as a lithographer in Baltimore. He and his son returned to Revere shortly after, where the elder Hallman resided until his death on November 5, 1911.
Date: ca. 1827-November 5, 1911
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Church Lith. Co.
Description: Church Lith. Co. issued lithographic church views, including "St. Alphonsu's [sic] Church. Philadelphia" (ca. 1885) and St. Ann's Church (ca. 1895).
Date: fl. ca. 1880s?-1890s?
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Gousha, Henry
Description: Henry Gousha, born about 1827 in Pennsylvania to French-born parents, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850, Between 1856 and 1859, city directories list his occupation as a painter. Throughout the 1850s, Gousha lived in the household of his father, Joseph, a victualler at 18 Dunton Street in Kensington (Ward 1). Possibly Gousha is the Henry R. Grashia who lived and worked as a house carpenter in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1870.
Date: b. ca. 1827
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Pendleton, John B.
Description: John B. Pendleton, premier Boston lithographer, born in 1798 in New York (according to census records), was a partner in the early Philadelphia lithographic firm Pendleton, Kearny & Childs 1828-1829. Before entering the trade in Philadelphia, Pendelton trained in Paris and returned to Boston in 1825 with the necessary supplies and equipment. In 1826 he partnered with his brother William in the first lithographic establishment in Boston. In 1828 he left for Philadelphia where he partnered briefly with Francis Kearny and C. G. Childs before he relocated to New York and established his own lithographic firm in February 1829. Pendleton continued in the trade in New York printing all genres of lithographs into the 1830s as well as worked as a carpenter and proprietor of a planing mill into the early 1850s., Pendleton was married to Hester (ca. 1810-1883) in 1846 following the death of his first wife in 1842. He resided in New York from 1829 until his death on March 10, 1866. In 1850, he headed a New York household of over 20 persons, including Hester and four Pendletons aged 39-27 years born in Massachusetts. In 1860, he headed a household that included his wife and five servants.
Date: 1798-March 10, 1866
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Morris, William P.
Description: William P. Morris, born ca. 1833 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer, printer, and inn keeper in Philadelphia 1857-ca. 1875. During his career in the lithographic trade, Morris worked for P. S. Duval (22 South Fifth Street) from 1858 to 1859. His older brother Henry Morris (b. ca. 1829) was also a lithographer., Morris resided with his father, shoemaker and shoe manufactory owner Jehu Morris (ca. 1796-ca. 1868), and family at 161 Poplar Street in Northern Liberties from 1850 to 1869. By 1870 he lived with his wife Josephine (b. ca. 1839) in a boarding house they operated north of Arch Street in Ward 10. He was widowed by 1880 and resided in Kensington at 556 Bower (i.e., East Hewson) Street. Morris remarried Susan W. (b. 1852) ca. 1880 and lived in Plumstead, Bucks County by 1900.
Date: b. ca. 1833
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Caterson, James H.
Description: James H. Caterson, born ca. 1836, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia at 23 South Seventh Street between 1867 and 1873. Before entering the lithographic trade, he worked with his brother, William Caterson, as a member of the Caterson Brothers Company (727 Sansom), a manufacturer of passé partouts (or skeleton keys). After 1873, he departed the trade and became a dealer of photographic materials. He lived at 516 Pine Street 1867-1868, before eventually relocating to 604 North Eleventh Street by 1881. There, he lived with his wife Hannah (b. 1840) and two children, Mary (b. 1861) and Alfred (b. 1865).
Date: b. ca. 1836
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: W.F. Geddes Sons
Description: W. F. Geddes Sons, job and lithographic printers, established by William F. Geddes (ca. 1799-1888) as a book, job & fancy printing shop ca. 1837 at 9 Library Street, operated until ca. 1945. In 1868 the firm renamed W.F. Geddes Sons (724 Chestnut Street) added lithographic printing to their services, although in 1839 the firm published an M. E. D. Brown lithograph of Washington's Family. Specimens of the firm's lithographic work, predominately calendars and their specialty, fruit can labels, was highlighted often in the "Printers' Circular" during the mid to late 1870s. In 1874 the firm received an honorable mention for this latter work at the Franklin Institute Exhibition of Manufacturers. Geddes Sons remained active until at least the early 20th century, with Geddes's son William F. assuming all operations by 1880 following the retirement of his father. The firm was still in operation in 1945., William F. Geddes, born ca. 1799 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, married Mary Butler, daughter of Robert Butler, Esq. in Philadelphia in July 1834. The couple had at least four children, including sons Robert C. (b. ca. 1845) and William F., Jr. (b. ca, 1848). During the 1850s and 1860s, the family resided in the Southwark Ward and by 1870 had relocated residences to 2001 Wallace Street in the Fairmount neighborhood. Geddes died on January 30, 1888. He was a past Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Pennsylvania lodge and an honorary member of the typographical society.
Date: fl. 1868-ca. 1900s
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Steffan, Edward W.
Description: Edward W. Steffan, lithographer, printer and wool manufacturer, was born in Philadelphia in 1841. He worked as a lithographers' apprentice in 1860 before enlisting in the 121st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1862. After his discharge in 1865 he continued to reside near the regiment's base in Chestnut Hill and worked at a "segar" shop at 107 East Girard Avenue. From 1868 to 1871, Steffan worked as a lithographer and engraver for H. J. Toudy & Co. at their 505 Chestnut Street establishment., By 1872, Edward had joined his late brother's cloth and worsted goods business, F. Steffan & Co., which had two locations, 1349 Hope Street and 1344 North Front Street. Edward remained a proprietor of this business until it closed in the early 1880s. From 1886 to ca. 1890, Edward was a clerk for an unidentified establishment, and resided at 2222 Christian Street. In the 1890s, he managed Hallowell Co. Ltd., a printing business, at 14 South Fifth Street., His German-born wife, Louisa W. (b. 1847), also worked for the company as a printer. With Louisa, who immigrated to Philadelphia in 1850, he had six children: Sarah E. (1866-1922), printer Martin John (b. 1867), Ella (b. 1869), artist Edward T. (b. 873), August (b. 1875), and Herbert R. (b. 1885). The family moved to New Jersey in the 1890s, then to Baltimore, Maryland by 1910, where Steffan died on November 7, 1914.
Date: 1841-November 7, 1914
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Rosenthal, Simon
Description: See Rosenthal, Louis N.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Moran, Thomas
Description: Thomas Moran, born on February 12, 1837 in Bolton, England, was a premier painter, watercolorist, etcher, and engraver, known for his landscape views, who practiced lithography in Philadelphia ca. 1859-1869. Brother to noted Philadelphia artists Edward and Peter (1841-1914) and photographer John Moran (1831-1902), Moran immigrated to Philadelphia with his siblings and mother Mary (b. ca. 1806) in 1843 and was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1857., Following grammar school, he apprenticed 1853-1855 at the Philadelphia wood-engraving firm, Scattergood & Telfer, before he entered the lithographic studio of his brother Edward to learn that trade. By 1859 , Moran designed and signed his own lithographs, typically art works, and in 1869, he undertook with James McGuigan an ill-fated deluxe portfolio series of his "Studies and Pictures," including views of the Wissahickon. Only a few proof lithographs were ever printed. The same year, Moran also drew a lithograph of Swarthmore College printed by McGuigan promoted in the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin" for $1. Nonetheless, Moran abandoned his practice of lithography soon thereafter. His association with the printing process, however, did not end. His landscapes created when he served as the official artist for the Hayden Expedition of Yellowstone River (1871) were later reproduced as the noted 1876 series of chromolithographs "The Yellowstone National Park…" by Boston premier lithographer L. Prang & Co., Although he practiced lithography, Moran's predominant association with the arts was as a painter, watercolorist, etcher, and engraver. He exhibited extensively at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts beginning in 1856, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design in 1884, and designed wood-engraved illustrations for several books, including Joseph Pangborn's "Picturesque B & O" (1883) and Edward Strahan's "A Century After: Picturesque Glimpses of Philadelphia" (1875), as well as contributed numerous wood cuts to "Scribner's Monthly Magazine" during the 1860s. Moran also traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe for artistic studies and inspiration into the 20th century; participated in the etching revival of the 1870s and 1880s; and by the early 20th century embraced the use of his paintings for commercial endeavors, including art calendars., During his early career in Philadelphia, Moran lived with his parents in Kensington, where his father and weaver Thomas (b. ca. 1802) first settled in 1842. In 1863, he married Scottish-born etcher and landscape painter Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899) and by 1864, the couple resided at 838 Race Street with the first of their three children: Paul, Mary, and Ruth. Moran and his family relocated to Newark, New Jersey in 1872 and by 1881 to New York City. In 1884, he built his studio and long-term residence at East Hampton, Long Island, New York, which he retained following a move to Santa Barbara, Ca. in 1920. Moran died a leader of Santa Barbara's art colony on August 25, 1926
Date: February 12, 1837-August 26, 1926
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Snyder, George
Description: George Snyder, born August 1831 in France, and brother-in-law of Philadelphia lithographer John Henry Camp, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1900. According to censuses, Snyder immigrated to the United States in 1845 and resided in the household of Camp in 1850. His parents Michael (b. ca. 1784) and Sarah (b. ca. 1797) and three siblings, including Camp's wife Sarah, also resided in the household situated in Northern Liberties Ward 3. In 1880, Snider again lived in Camp's household (409 North Fourth Street), listed as his brother-in-law and with his mother Saloma, i.e., Sarah. In 1900, Snider headed his own household, including his wife Lizzie (b. 1860) and children, May (b. 1886) and Eddie (b. 1890), in North Philadelphia (Ward 19).
Date: b. August 1831
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Inman, Henry
Description: Henry Inman, born in Utica, New York on October 28, 1801, was a renown portrait painter who practiced lithography as a partner in the premier Philadelphia firm Childs & Inman with engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs 1830-1833. In his formative years, Inman served as an apprentice to painter John Wesley Jarvis in New York City. In the early 1820s, he traveled with him to New Orleans and in 1822 they established a short-lived business in Boston. Inman eventually opened his own studio in New York City in 1824, as well as was a founding member of the National Academy of Design and a director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1834)., At the end of 1830, Inman entered the partnership Childs & Inman, initially as a business agent and artist from New York before he relocated to Philadelphia in 1832. Inman was to add artistic cachet to the firm established by Childs (formerly Pendleton, Kearny and Childs) as well as garner painting commissions for himself. He left the firm in 1833 to focus on his painting and returned to New York by 1835., During his time in the lithographic trade in Philadelphia, Inman resided with his family on an estate in Mount Holly, New Jersey. He returned to New York City after only a few years in Philadelphia in the fall of 1834. A lifetime sufferer of asthma, he fell ill in the 1840s and passed away on January 17, 1846, a few months after returning from working in Europe.
Date: October 28, 1801-January 17, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: O'Sullivan, T.
Description: T. O'Sullivan published Alfred Hoffy's memorial lithograph "To the Memory of George Washington and his Lady...," printed by P. S. Duval in 1840.
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Sera, J.
Description: J. Sera, an Italian-born Charleston artist, served as the artist for lithographs printed by Lehman & Duval and P. S. Duval in Holbrook's "North American Herpetology" (Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840). Sera died in 1836.
Date: d. 1836
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Agnew, Henry
Description: Henry Agnew, born of Irish-descent in New York ca. 1840, was a lithographic printer active in Philadelphia ca. 1870-ca. 1880. He lived at 1034 Leithgow Street, and with his wife Allace (b. ca. 1845) by 1880.
Date: b. ca. 1840
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Wagner, Rudolph
Description: Rudolph Wagner, born on September 26, 1836 to Joseph and Lena Wagner in Germany, immigrated to the United States in the 1850s, and worked as a lithographer and engraver in Philadelphia from 1860-ca. 1910. In 1860 he worked for W. H. Rease at his Fourth and Chestnut Street establishment. His subsequent business addresses are unknown., Wagner resided in the household of his father and hotel keeper Joseph Wagner (b. ca. 1807, Germany) at 937 North Marshall Street (Ward 20) with his younger brother and painter Adolph Wagner (b. ca. 1841, Germany) in 1860. Wagner married Pennsylvania-born Margaret ca. 1860 and relocated frequently within the Northern Liberties neighborhood in the 1860s. By 1870, they lived in Camden, New Jersey with three children. Wagner returned to Philadelphia, presumably after Margaret's death, and remarried Philadelphia-native Teresa P. (b. ca. 1842) ca. 1875. They resided at 1212 Cuthbert Street in northern Center City in the late 1870s and lived at 1131 Fairmount Avenue in the 1880s. They lived in South Philadelphia (Ward 39) by 1910. Wagner died on December 30, 1913 and his wife wife Teresa P. died three years later on September 1, 1916.
Date: September 26, 1836-December 30, 1913
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Dolcey, August
Description: August Dolcey, born circa 1832 in Prussia, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He lived with his wife Maria (b. ca. 1836), and another German couple in Ward 5.
Date: b. ca. 1832
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Moran, Edward
Description: Edward Moran, the eminent maritime painter born August 19, 1829 in Bolton, England, was active as a lithographer in Philadelphia in the mid 1850s. Brother to noted Philadelphia artists Thomas and Peter (1841-1914) and photographer John Moran (1831-1902), Moran immigrated to Philadelphia with his siblings and mother Mary (b. ca. 1806) in 1843. Originally trained as a loom worker, Moran entered the field of arts in the early 1850s under the mentorship of local artists Paul Weber and James Hamilton., During this time he also began in the lithographic trade, possibly with Herline & Co., and exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Known lithographs by Moran are few and include "Washington and His Staff at Valley Forge" printed by Herline & Co. in 1855; an undated sheet of six small landscape and seascape studies in the John Sartain print collection at the Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; and an album "Land and Sea" (ca. 1871) containing eighteen lithographs with three to six land and sea studies vignettes. He may also have delineated lithographic plates for Elisha K. Kane's "U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin" (1854)., Moran's association with lithography was short-lived, and after 1855 he focused on his marinescape paintings, studied at the Royal Academy in London in 1861, and exhibited his works at PAFA, the National Academy of Design, the Artists Fund Society, and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. In 1871, Moran relocated to New York City where his reputation as an expert artist in the creation of seascapes was cemented. Despite a long absence from lithography, Moran joined the newly established American Society for Painters on Stone in 1890. He died on June 9, 1901 in New York City., Moran was married to Elizabeth (b. ca. 1830) with whom he had one son, James (b. ca. 1849), by 1850. During his short career in lithography in 1855, Moran lived at 308 Callowhill Street. Before relocating to New York and marrying his second wife Annette (b. 1840), Moran lived with his mother and three sons, including artist Edward Percy (1862-1935) and John Leon (1864-1941) in North Philadelphia (Ward 14) in 1870.
Date: August 19, 1829-June 9, 1901
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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