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DeNegre, Joseph A. (ca. 1799 - 1873)
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Born: c. 1799, Died: 7/24/1873 Joseph DeNegre was born in Corsica, and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1825. He is listed as a carpenter in city directories by 1829. The U. S. Census indicates that by 1850, sons Joseph, Jr. and Sebastian were working with their father. In 1856, the same year he was elected to the Carpenter's Company of Philadelphia, DeNegre is first listed in city directories as an architect and a builder. He is identified as a master carpenter in the 1860 federal census. By around 1870, he retired to a farm in Glenn Mills, Delaware County, where he died. He was remembered in an obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer as the "designer of many fine buildings," of which, unfortunately, there is relatively little record, and as the builder of the Arch Street Methodist Church.
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