Ebenezer Doan


Ebenezer Doan, Jr. was the Master Builder or architectcontractor in charge of designing and building the Sharon Temple, a National Historic Site of Canada. Doan was a highly accomplished builder, as evidenced by the creative techniques used in the Temple structure. Doan was an early Quaker immigrant from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who joined the Children of Peace in 1812. His first house , drive shed and granary have now been relocated on the Temple grounds and restored.

Ebenezer Doan, Jr. was bornSeptember 1772 in Bucks County of a large Quaker family. He apprenticed at a young age to his elder brother Jonathan, a prominent Master Builder in the midAtlantic states, he having built and designed the first New Jersey State House and the New Jersey State Prison .

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