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 […]
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Washington County
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 […]
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Logan Township. Born: 1802
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) John Eby, gunsmith, Leacock Twp., Lancaster Co., 1801. (Dyke)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1811
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1833 in Germany) Pittsburgh, Allegheny County (1860)
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1813 in Ohio) Columbiana County, Ohio (1839) Perry Township, Fayette County (1847-48) Connellsville, Fayette County (1948-49) Jefferson Township, Fayette County (1850) Brownsville, Fayette County (1852-53) East Pike Run Township, Washington County (1860-80)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1850
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Cumberland Township, Greene County
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1850
School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) Henry George (Yorg) is shown as a gunsmith in an 1804 deed transfer to his son, Jacob “a gunsmith”. Both father and son worked in Greenwich Township. Jacob worked until the 1830s and many samples of his work have been found. His rifles are often confused with Stofil Long’s work and it […]
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1813) Youngstown, Westmoreland County
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gun Barrel Forger, Elizabeth Township, 1847-1850
School: York (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Borough of McConnellstown, Walker Township. Worked in the 1860’s. Born 1836. Lived with J.S. Johnston.
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1850
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1831) Morris Township, Washington County (1850)
School: Huntingdon (Pennsylvania/PA) Borough of Orbisonia, Cromwell Township. Born 1850 Died: 1870
