School: Hampshire (West Virginia/WV) No biographical information available.
Sheetz, Zebulon
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Sheetz, Zebulon
Steever, Adam
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Union Township. Approx.working dates:1824-1833
Ager, Alexander
School: Ohio Harrison, County 1821-1898
Harbison, John
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Westmoreland County
Becker, George
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1785
Harner, Jacob
School: Maryland Emmitsburg Jacob Harner was listed in the 1820 U.S. Census in Frederick County. He bought John Armstrong’s gunsmith tools for $28 on October 21, 1822. He is listed in the transaction as being from Frederick County. On June 13, 1827, he bought several lots, and in October of that year he is shown in […]
Fox, Philip
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1843
Bear, Jacob
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gun Barrel Forger, Manheim Township, 1825-1850
Shennefelt, Nicholas
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Union Township. Approx. working dates: 1819-1823 Born:1799 Died:1871
Little, Daniel
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1815; gun-barrel, shovel manufacture) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County (1850-55)
Henry, William, 1st
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1759-1770
Butler, William
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Fort Pitt
Hess, Solomon
School: Allemeangel (Pennsylvania/PA) Heidelberg Township
Fondersmith, William
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Gumpf, Mathias
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Mathias Gumpf appears in county records from 1789-1793, Lancaster Boro. Worked as gunsmith
Munson, H.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County (1841-47)
Cochran, Ladon
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Fichthorn, Andrew Sr.
School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA)Andrew Fichthorn Sr. [B 1756 – D 1829] will remain a mystery to the collecting world in the same manner as Wolfgang Haga and several other Borough of Reading gunsmiths. An extensive search of the Tax, Church and Land records of The Borough of Reading, Pa. do, in fact, identify his trade as […]
Broswell, Joseph
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Washington County
Bonewitz, John
School: Berks Womelsdorf (Pennsylvania/PA) John Bonewitz [B 1758 – D 1828] worked as Master Gunsmith in Womelsdorf, Pa. from approx. 1778 until 1809. Moved to Pine Grove, Pa. in 1809 and continued the trade there until his death.Bonewitz first appears in the Womelsdorf tax records in 1780 as a single freeman. In 1781 he appears […]