Philadelphia merchant.

Served in Pennsylvania militia in the Revolutionary War. Warden of Philadelphia (1785).

Born in Krefeld, Germany. Married Margarethe Eppele (1778); had issue.

First letter in correspondence: July 30, 1787; Oswald Seidensticker, Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft von Pennsylvanien (Philadelphia, 1876), pp. 276-7; Pa. Gaz., October 19, 1785.