3508 Baring Street

 

*No structure presently stands at this address.

 

1870:

William Stevenson                   55        Retail Merchant; born in Ireland; real estate: $35,000; property: $35,000

Nancy                          51        Born in Ireland

Martha L. (Mattie)                   22

Robert                         19        Clerk in a store

John                                         17

Emma                          16        In school

Helen                                       14        In school

Margaret Haney                       30        Domestic servant; born in Ireland

(1st Enumeration: p 22; 2nd Enumeration: p 28)

 

 

1880:

Nancy Stevenson                     62        Widowed 

Mattie D. Stevenson                32

John E. Stevenson                   27        Grocer

Emma M. Stevenson               26

Kate Stevenson                       24        daughter-in-law

Margary Haney                        32        Born in Ireland 

Lizzie Haney                           22        Born in Ireland

(1880: 487, p 15)

 

1890: Stevenson John E. Profession: bookkpr

 

1900:

Frank P Housekeeper              47        Physician; owned free of a mortgage

Elizabeth G Housekeeper       57        Married 22 years, 1 child

William G Housekeeper          17        Student at Univ. Penna.

Louisa Bernard                        35        Servant; black; born in Md.

Soloman Jones                         24        Coachman; black

(ED 543, 12A)

            Mrs. Housekeeper was born Elizabeth L. Gibbons.

 

1906 Blue Book: Frank P. Housekeeper, M.D.

 

1910:

Frank C Housekeeper              57        Doctor of medicine

Elizabeth G Housekeeper       67

William Housekeeper              29        Engineer

Ella Baker                               28        Servant; blackÕ married 1 year, no children; born in Md.

Maud Baker                             18        Servant; mulatto; born in N.J.

(ED 492, 4B)

            In 1920, Frank Housekeeper lived at the Aldine Hotel, 1914 Chestnut St.  He was widowed.  He was the son of Philip W. Housekeeper.  (Elizabeth G. Housekeeper, below, was his aunt.)

 

1911: The Smith Atlas lists the owner as Elizabeth G. Housekeeper.

            ÒElizabeth King (260), only daughter of Joseph and Mary (Arndt) King, born at Mt. Pleasant, N. J., August 29, 1815; died at Narberth, Pa., May 14,1913. She married, October 21, 1849, Dr. Benjamin Housekeeper, of Philadelphia. He was a son of Philip and Mary (Hickman) Housekeeper, and was born in Chester County, Pa., April 2, 1807. Dr. Housekeeper spent practically all his adult life in Philadelphia. In early manhood he was a teacher in the public schools of Southwark, in the mean time taking up the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1843. He practised medicine in Kensington, Philadelphia, until the time of his death in March, 1870. During the Civil War he was a surgeon in the Union Army.Ó

(The story of the Arndts: the life, antecedents and descendants of Bernhard ... John Stover Arndt, Warren Smedley Ely. 1922)

 

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