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David ShoemakerBookbinder10 Knights courtPhiladelphiaPennsylvania  1.1. (1802) Philadelphia City Directory pg, 219. Same address in 1803, pg 225.2. ( 1804) 76 N. Fourth Street : Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding byHand” from: “Bookbinding in America” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.115.

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W. S. ShoreyBookbinderBath Maine 1.1. (1894) victim of a fire that destroyed much of the business section ofBath. San Francisco Call. Vol.. 75 number 29, 1894.

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Louis C. ShoemakerBookbinderHarrisburg Pennsylvania BIO: George J. SHOEMAKER, Dauphin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JAWB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/ http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/runk/runk-bios.htm _______________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 296-297. _______________________________________________________________ became the owner of all the lots of ground from his father’s original purchase up to Walnut street, and built thereon four three-story brick houses, in one of which he new resides. Mr. Shoemaker was first married, in 1837, to Elizabeth D. Allen, of Strasburg, Lancaster county, Pa. They had five children. Anna R., their first-born, was married to George Evans, of Pottsville, Schuylkill bounty, Pa., and is now the only survivor, in her fifty- ninth year. The deceased children are Matilda, George, Ellen, and John; the last-named died in 1860, aged thirteen, while attending college. Mr. Shoemaker’s second marriage took place in December, 1850; his wife was Catharine, daughter of George and Catharine (Rahm) Eichholtz. They had four children: Maria, wife of D. A. Weidmann, of New York; Rose, wife of L. K. Scheffer, of Harrisburg; Louis C., bookbinder, Harrisburg; George E., a prominent physician at St. Louis, Mo., who traveled through Panama, and returned by way of New York; he died July 20, 1889, aged thirty-four. Mr. Shoemaker is a sound co