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Franklin Philp
Birth: 1826
Death: 11-22-1887
Biography
Franklin Philp was born in Cornwall, England and emigrated to the United States in 1853 where he set up a bookshop and stationary shop in Washington, D.C. with Adolphus Solomons on Pennsylvania Avenue. Philp and Solomons also exhibited artwork in a gallery on their premises and published photographs. Their firm was a supplier of stationary for the House of Representatives during the Civil War era. It appears that Philp and his wife Caroline returned to England sometime in the 1880s. Philp was a friend of the noted British author, Charles Dickens. Frances "Fanny" Seward references Mr. Philp and her sister, Elizabeth Philp, a musician, in her 1863 diary.
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Franklin Philp was born in Cornwall, England and emigrated to the United States in 1853 where he set up a bookshop and stationary shop in Washington, D.C. with Adolphus Solomons on Pennsylvania Avenue. Philp and Solomons also exhibited artwork in a gallery on their premises and published photographs. Their firm was a supplier of stationary for the House of Representatives during the Civil War era. It appears that Philp and his wife Caroline returned to England sometime in the 1880s. Philp was a friend of the noted British author, Charles Dickens. Frances "Fanny" Seward references Mr. Philp and her sister, Elizabeth Philp, a musician, in her 1863 diary.