Fincken, James [B.W. Morris House 106-108 (later 422-424) Walnut Street]

James Fincken (1860-1943).  [B.W. Morris House 106-108 (later 422-424) Walnut Street] Copyrighted by Alfred Percival Smith, Philadelphia, 1901. 13 ¾ x 10 5/8. With three vignettes. Very good condition.  The house at 106-108 (later 422-424) Walnut Street was erected by Benjamin Wistar Morris in 1799. Morris, born on 14 August 1762 to Samuel and Rebecca Wistar Morris, followed the family tradition and became a Philadelphia merchant. After winning a contract to build a road from Newbury, Lycoming County, up through Little Pine Creek to the New York state line, he traveled to the site on numerous occasions and in 1802-1803 built a cabin on a knoll overlooking what would later become the town of Wellsboro, which he named in honor of his wife Mary Wells, originally of Burlington, N.J. In 1805 he moved his family from Philadelphia to the cabin in Tioga County. The engraving is meant to show the house as it looked, divided in two, in 1835. The left half, 106 (later 422), Walnut Street houses