Thomas Cresson Garrett

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1818 to Philip Garrett in Philadelphia PA ¹

• He was a partner from 1828 to 1835 with Philip Garrett in Philadelphia PA as PHILIP GARRETT & SON ⁴

• He worked from 1836 to 1860 as a silversmith in Philadelphia PA with a shop at 122 Chestnut Street.

• Master to Samuel Biddle abt 1857 in Philadelphia PA. ¹

• Served as corporal in Fiftieth Regiment, Company E of the Reading Light Infantry during Civil War
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• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Philadelphia PA, listed as a gentleman.

Thomas married Frances Biddle, daughter of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, on 8 Oct 1827 in Philadelphia PA. (Frances Biddle was born on 29 Nov 1803 in Philadelphia PA and died on 5 Sep 1873 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.)