• Born: 26 Oct 1838, Hartwick NY
• Died: 28 Dec 1906, Albany NY

  General notes:

Jeweler and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Perry Gallup Tanner, in 1850-1851, in Cooperstown NY.

• Carlisle: 1850, in Albany NY. Listed as a clerk living in the home of watchmaker John H. Thoin.

• Apprenticed: Benjamin Marsh, in 1852, in Albany NY.

• Partnership: James Augustus Goewey, in 1862-1866, in Albany NY.

• He appeared on the census in 1870 in Albany NY. Listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Albany NY. Listed as a jeweler.

• Example: Trade card, circa 1880, in Private Collection.

• General: State of New York by Henry Kollock, in 1882. P. D. F. GOEWEY, Watches, &c, 34 State Street
  "Many advantages contribute toward making Albany an important purchasing centre, and to accommodate the trade there are a number of enterprising business men who have established business houses to meet this demand, prominent among whom is Mr. P. D. F. Goewey, who is largely engaged at No. 34 State street in dealing in watches, clocks, jewelry, and diamonds, and in making a specialty in fine watch repairing. Mr. Goewey is a gentleman forty-four years of age, a native of Albany, and in his present enterprise for the last thirty-one years. He is doing a very handsome business of $75,000 a year, which is steadily increasing. By a close attention to the wants of his customers, a straightforward, honest way of doing business, and a cordial, polite manner, Mr. Goewey has made many friends in Albany and the surrounding country."