School: Allemeangel (Pennsylvania/PA) Hiedelberg/Albany Township
Claus, Nathan
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Claus, Nathan
Coey, John
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Fry, Martin
School: York (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Neth, Jacob
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1804 in Germany) West Newton, Westmoreland County (1859-61)
Regan, Jesse
School: Davidson (North Carolina/NC) Born in 1815. Apparently apprenticed with Henry Ledford. Source: Ivey, William. North Carolina Schools of Longrifles 1765-1865. Thomasville, NC: Published by the Author, 2010. Print.
Greaff, William
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1807-1809
Douglass, Joseph, Sr.
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Juniata Township. Died 1841
Douglass, David
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Frankstown Township. Approximate working dates: 1850-1867. Born 1823.
Beck, W. E.
School: Salem (North Carolina/NC) There is one known rifle stamped, “W.E. Beck Winston N.C.” This half-stock percussion rifle was made in the Salem School style. Source: Ivey, William. North Carolina Schools of Longrifles 1765-1865. Thomasville, NC: Published by the Author, 2010. Print.
Smith, Peter Jr.
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Barree Township. Approx working dates: 1845-1850
Grove, Samuel
School: York (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Smith, Peter Sr.
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Barree Township. Approx. working dates: 1825-1870 Born: 1796
LeFever, Isaac
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lampeter Township, 1731-1736
Early, Amos
School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) Amos Early (c. 1840-1904)was taxed as a gunsmith from the late 1850’s to the time of his death in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. There was some relationship with the Shell family, as there are extant percussion fullstocks signed “Shell and Early.”
Lilly, Robert A.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1831 in Virginia) Carmichaels, Green County (1850, with Thomas P. Lilly)
Henry, John, 2nd
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1770-1772
Pannebecker, Daniel
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Cocalico Township 1828-1831
Rigden, Henry J.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born in 1795 in Maryland; silversmith, gunsmith, locksmith) Georgetown, D.C. (1817) Brownsville, Fayette County (1818-50)
Dalby, Enoch
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Albrecht, Andreas
School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) Andreas Albrecht (1718-1802) was one of the patriarchs of Pennsylvania gun building. Born in Germany, he came to America in 1750 and served as the master gunsmith at the Moravian settlement of Christian Springs, the initial place where guns were built within the Lehigh Valley, near present-day Nazareth. Albrecht left the settlement […]