# Jacob Pitman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacob_Pitman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacob_Pitman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Pitman > Source revision: 1310488844 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Australian architect (1810–1890)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} '''Jacob Pitman''' (28 November 1810 – 12 March 1890) was an architect, builder and educator in the colonies of [South Australia](/source/South_Australia) and [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales). He was a brother of [Isaac Pitman](/source/Isaac_Pitman) and was associated with his development of [shorthand](/source/shorthand) transcription. ==History== Pitman was born in [Trowbridge, Wiltshire](/source/Trowbridge%2C_Wiltshire), the eldest son of Samuel Pitman and his wife Maria, née Davis. He was apprenticed to a local builder then worked for a building firm in London. They emigrated to South Australia with daughters, Melissa and Sarah in the ''Trusty'', arriving 15 May 1838. During the journey he made friends with [William Holden](/source/William_Holden_(journalist)), who was to have a journalistic career in Adelaide.Bruce Muirden, [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pitman-jacob-4402/text7177 'Pitman, Jacob (1810–1890)'], ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1974. Retrieved 3 April 2015 He set up as a builder and an architect at 84, then 90, [Rundle Street](/source/Rundle_Street%2C_Adelaide) east. He invested heavily in land, including in 1839, an {{convert|80|acre|ha}} section (Section 824), one allotment of which, near the present corner of [Grand Junction](/source/Grand_Junction_Road) and Valley Roads, he sold to Holden, who used it to set up a butcher's shop and general store. It was Holden who dubbed the area [Hope Valley](/source/Hope_Valley%2C_South_Australia). Pitman was declared insolvent in 1843 during a depression, and forced to unload these assets, but by the 1850s he was back in work, bridge-building on the [River Torrens](/source/River_Torrens) and near [Echunga](/source/Echunga%2C_South_Australia). He founded a branch of the [Swedenborgian Church](/source/The_New_Church_(Swedenborgian)) in Adelaide and served as its minister from 1844 to 1859. From 1846, he also taught shorthand following his brother's system. He left for [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) in 1870, although he returned to Adelaide on occasion: his design for the Institute and Museum building on [North Terrace](/source/North_Terrace%2C_Adelaide) won second prize in 1874.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28732341 |title=Topics of the Day |newspaper=[The South Australian Advertiser](/source/The_South_Australian_Advertiser) |location=Adelaide |date=10 July 1874 |accessdate=4 April 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} His wife died in Adelaide in 1881, prompting his return. He moved to [Camperdown, New South Wales](/source/Camperdown%2C_New_South_Wales), where he taught Pitman shorthand, for a time associated with the Sydney Technical College.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159544332 |title=General News |newspaper=[Adelaide Observer](/source/Adelaide_Observer) |date=15 March 1890 |accessdate=4 April 2015 |page=29 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He continued his association with Swedenborgianism; he married again and died in 1890{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13763198 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=[The Sydney Morning Herald](/source/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald) |date=17 March 1890 |accessdate=3 April 2015 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and was buried in [Rookwood Cemetery](/source/Rookwood_Cemetery), where his epitaph is uniquely written phonetically, using the Pitman scheme of reformed spelling. ==Family== He married Emma Hooper (c. 1809 – 4 June 1881) in England on 31 December 1833. He married again on 1 January 1883, to the widow Catherine Mary Hayden, née Yates. His children included: *fourth daughter Rosella Pitman (c. 1840 – 17 June 1859) died at Unley *Frederick Pitman (c. 1842 – 5 August 1898) *second son Alfred Frank Pitman (c. 1845 – 7 December 1873) *Harriet Lily Pitman (3 August 1846 – 18 July 1939) married George J. Ireland on 26 March 1889 *Clarence Pitman (c. 1848 – 9 March 1926) married Caroline Anna Blood Newenham on 30 Oct 1871. Buried at Marysville Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Jacob's uncle William Pitman{{cite book |last1=Packham |first1=David |title=The Australians of a Branch of the Pitman Family |date=1954 |publisher=Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd |location=The Pitman Press, Bath |page=169}} (c. 1801 – 22 June 1859) and his wife Emma, née Angel, (1798 – 21 January 1866) of [Trowbridge, Wiltshire](/source/Trowbridge%2C_Wiltshire) emigrated to South Australia on the ''Fairlie'', arriving on 4 April 1840, with their eight children, including: *second daughter Ann Pitman (9 June 1826 – 14 August 1917) married [John Harvey](/source/John_Harvey_(Australian_politician)), a South Australian farmer and parliamentarian. *fourth son Thomas Pitman (16 May 1834 – 17 January 1925) was a successful builder, living at 112 Osmond Terrace, [Norwood](/source/Norwood%2C_South_Australia). Partnership with John Crocker erecting buildings for the [Overland Telegraph](/source/Australian_Overland_Telegraph_Line) station, the British and Australian Cable Company and the South Australian Government 1872–1874; then Customs house at Port Augusta, Government offices in King William Street.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159480943 |title=New Government Offices |newspaper=[Adelaide Observer](/source/Adelaide_Observer) |date=12 December 1874 |accessdate=4 April 2015 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The partnership was dissolved in January 1875, Crocker taking over the business. :He married Mary Day on 27 February 1855; their children included Talbot Goss Pitman and Randolph Pitman of [Leabrook](/source/Leabrook%2C_South_Australia), Sydney Herbert Pitman, of [Rose Park](/source/Rose_Park%2C_South_Australia), Lily Angel Pitman (married James Lake Bowell) and Mary Pitman (married William E. Wyatt), of [Glenelg](/source/Glenelg%2C_South_Australia), and Florence Ina Pitman (married Walter Henry Newman), of [Hoyleton](/source/Hoyleton%2C_South_Australia).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166316030 |title=Obituary |newspaper=[Adelaide Observer](/source/Adelaide_Observer) |date=24 January 1925 |accessdate=4 April 2015 |page=36 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pitman, Jacob}} Category:1810 births Category:1890 deaths Category:19th-century Australian architects Category:Australian builders Category:Australian educators Category:Australian Swedenborgians Category:Burials at Rookwood Cemetery Category:People from Trowbridge Jacob Category:Settlers of South Australia --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jacob Pitman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Pitman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Pitman?action=history)). 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