Biography:

Printer; errand boy for Benjamin Franklin; apprentice in Benjamin Franklin Bache’s print shop from 1792; lieutenant-colonel, War of 1812; adjutant general for the state of Pennsylvania, 1821-24; maintained William Bartram’s botanical gardens [with his wife Ann Bartram Carr]; alderman; justice of the peace; b. Ireland, 29 Jan. 1778; d. Philadelphia, 15 Mar., 1866.