School: Womelsdorf (Pennsylvania/PA) Jacob Palm of Womelsdorf, Berks Co., appears in the U. S. Census of 1850 as a gunsmith. According to the business directory, he was still working ten years later in the same trade. (Kauffman)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1779-1833
School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) Henry Young, along with brother John, built solid flintlocks in the early period ( circa 1774-1784). He was located in Easton, PA.
School: Womelsdorf, Reading and Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) Andrew [Andreas] Fichthorn [Figthorn] Jr. [B 1779 – D 1822] was the son of Andrew Fichthorn Sr., a Rev War veteran, Reading land owner/speculator, Reading banker and Bond holder and some believe a gunsmith at various times in his life.Andrew Fichthorn Jr., however, was a full time Master Gunsmith […]
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1815-1832
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Martic Township, 1811
School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) John Brooks, Jr., was taxed as a gunsmith from 1802 through 1817 in Harrisburg, the county seat of Dauphin County, PA. He built classic longrifles with Lancaster school overtones, consistent with the fact that he built guns in Lancaster city prior to moving to Harrisburg.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
George Correll is documented as a gunsmith working out of Kunkletown, Monroe Co., PA, in 1861. Maker of percussion guns.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Listed as a gunsmith in Lancaster Borough between 1802 and 1821.
School: Allemeangel (Pennsylvania/PA) Albany Township
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1805 in Germany) Greensburg, Westmoreland County (1856-66)
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Worked in Frankstown Township between 1833 and 1837. Born 1808 Died 1887
School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) Jeese Worley was a gun maker and owner of a gun barrel factory along the Wyomissing Creek in Cumru Township from 1788 until 1838. Two of his sons, John and Henry worked in the factory making gun barrels until 1890. Rifles signed with J. Worley or J.W. are found to have the […]
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1800) Greene Township, Greene County (1817-23) Monongahela Township, Greene County (1823-33) Georges Township, Fayette County (1833-38) Allaince, Stark County, Ohio (1850-60)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Brecknock Township, 1838-1850
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Rapho Township, 1759-1790
School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) Granville Henry (1835-1912, son of James Henry, carried on the family gunmaking tradition for the fourth generation at the Boulton gun factory. This is ths site of the present-day Jacobsburg Plantation and Pennsylvania Museum of the Longrifle, near the Belfast Exit, Rt. 33, north of Easton, PA. The entire evolution of the […]
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1794-1854
