School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) Christian Beck, brother of J. P. Beck, worked as a gunsmith in the early 1800’s in Lebanon, PA. It appears that he was itinerant for part of his life, travelling westward, as did many gunsmiths at the time. Note: It is possible that there was a father and son who were both […]
School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) William Henry, III, son of William Henry, Jr., was a gunsmith in the family firearms business at Jacobsburg and Boulton, near present day Nazareth, PA.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 180?, died 1892) Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County (1826-31) Washington Township, Westmoreland County (1832-90)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1863
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Pittsburg, Alleghany County (1867-1870)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Colerain Township, 1826-1846
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1834-1849
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1808 in Maryland) Carmichaels, Greene County (1860) Cumberland Township, Greene County (1870-80)
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (born 1825 in Virginia) Morris Township, Washington County (1870)
School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) David Reduk, Annville Twp., Dauphin Co., PA, tax list 1800, gunsmith. (Kauffman)
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County (1811-12) Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County (1813-18) Franklin Township, Fayette County (1818-22) Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County (1822-26) South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County (1827-44)
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) Washington County
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (Born 1797) Richhill Township, Greene County (1832-51)
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) S. Dyke lists Matthew Llewellyn as being taxed as a gunsmith from 1792-1802, working within the boro of Lancaster, PA.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) No biographical information available.
School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) Jacob Welshantz (Welshance) Jr., son of York gunsmith J. Welshantz, worked in Harrisburg in the 1807-1811 period. He then moved to York where he carried on the family trade through 1831.
School: Western Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania/PA) (gunsmith, blacksmith, auger maker) East Bethlehem Township, Washington County (1827-36)
School: Lebanon/Dauphin (Pennsylvania/PA) Christian Siple was apprenticed to Jacob Haeffer in Lancaster Boro as early as 1797. He moved to Middletown, PA where he was taxed as a gunsmith from 1808 to 1825. He worked in town as well as in contiguous Swatara Township, Dauphin County. He died circa 1827. Some of his products show […]
School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gun Lock Maker, Lancaster Boro., 1759
