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William CaswellBookbinder apprentice (to:Thomas Essex)LexingtonKentucky 1.1. (1818-1818) Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol. 24, no. 2.1998. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts identification number: 73668.

Ramsden dates this address as 1799Image collection ABM 00064 prov. TJ.![GCawthorn.jpg][1] [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/477/GCawthorn.jpg (G.. Cawthorn)

H. R. CazneauBookbinder(Salem ?)*Massachusetts 1.* This is truly speculative. Perhaps the only reason that Jewett (see 1 below) would mention the name of the man that he bought the tools form would be if his Salem customers would recognize the name or know the ‘quality’ of the tools.1. (1842) ” New Book Bindery, John P. Jewett Respectfully informs hiscustomers and the public in general, that he has purchased the entire stock ofBook Binder’s Tools, recently owned by Mr. H. R. Cazneau and having fitted upthe Chamber over his Bookstore in the best manner for a BOOKBINDERY has madearrangements with a Mr Jonathan Perley (whose qualifications are too wellknown to need comment,) to take charge of the same… New & FashionableBinding Implements… Stimpson’s Celebrated Cylindrical Ruling Machines”… Gloucester Telegraph, Gloucester MA., March, 12, 1842.

George O. ChamplainBookbinder41 RoyalNew Orleans (1824) 1.1.1824 New Orleans City Directory

![robert_champ2.jpg][1]Robert ChampleyBookbinder see also: Father: George Champley, BookbinderROBERT CHAMPLEY, ‘farmer and one of the oldest settlers of the county, wasborn in Hull, England, July 7, 1817 and is the only child of George andCharlotte (Lawson) Champley. Robert Champley removed with his parents toMontreal, Canada, at the age of ten months, and remained at home until hisfathers death. He worked at book-binding for several years, but during hisresidence in Ohio and Indiana he has followed farming.’ From “Counties ofWarren, Benton, Jasper and Newton Indiana” Pub. 1883– A Historical andBiographical History, page 397. Our thanks to David L. Dye of Goodland Indianafor this image and the information on his GG-grandfather.2. see also; Early American Bookbindings, from the collection of MichaelPapantonio, The Pierpont Morgan Library , New York 1972 [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/621/robert_champ2.jpg (robert_champ2.jpg)