School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Born 1826
Fry, Joseph
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Fry, Joseph
Gaskill, Budd
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Long, Peter
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1834) Greensburg, Westmoreland County (1870)
Gillman, Daniel
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Daniel Gillman, gunsmith, 1779-1812, Donegal Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. (Dyke)
Calderwood, Hugh
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Lawrence County
Fordney, Jacob
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Armstrong and Allegheny County
Haldeman, Joseph
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
Runfielt, S. C.
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1850
Raesor, Peter
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1782-1786
Means, Samuel
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Smith Township, Washington County (1810-25) Bridgeport, Belmont County, Ohio (1829-33)
Heckert, Philip
School: York (Pennsylvania/PA) Philip Heckert was a barrelmaker and gunsmith in York, PA during and immediately after the Revolutionary period. From an 1806 handwritten account: “Fire, the bore mill, burnt in 1800, it was a little more than a mile from town, near the little bridge on the Baltimore turnpike, now, this mill was useful […]
Haga, Wolfgang
School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) The legendary Wolfgang Haga was a gunsmith working in Reading according to a land grant dated 1767. Further tax records show him still working in Reading in1779. No signed guns by Haga have been found, yet rifle design attributed to Haga set the standard for the Berks County style with later gunmakers […]
Richardson, William
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Elizabeth Township, 1839-1850
Syphers, John H.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1818) Waynesburg, Greene County (1842-90)
Wilson, Samuel
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County (1842)
Killets, Charles
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gun Stock Maker, West Earl Township, 1849-1850
Weaver, Adam
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Jonestown, 1771-1779
Holeman, John
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1807-1819
DeHuff, John
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancster Boro, appears in county records, 1803-1819.
Murphy, John
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Donegal Township, 1817