3622 Baring Street

 

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The History of the Building

 

3620-22: “Circa 1870, two-and-one-half story, Second Empire-style double house, cruciform plan, with side porches and entrances in cross arms. First-floor projecting~ bays; double-bracket cornice; asphalt-shingled mansard with two dormers; stone facade over brick”

(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, 1985)

 

Previous Residents

1870:

George Hammel          35        Wholesale liquor merchant; his mother was born abroad; property: $2,500

Cordelia M. Hammel   25

Blanch Hammel             2

George Hammel           3 mons., born in June, 1870

Henrietta Young          19        Domestic servant; born in Md.

Clara                            16        Domestic servant; born in Md.

(1st Enumeration: pp 14; 2nd Enumeration: p 29)

 

1880:

W. Porter Ogelsby       35        Plumber

Margaret T. Ogelsby    32        Father born in Ireland

Edith A. Ogelsby          7

W. Porter Ogelsby         5

Mabel M. Ogelsby         3

Hannah Dorsey           30        Servant; black; born in Md.

Caroline Jones             15        Servant; black; born in Md.

Jonah Ogelsby             89        Father; father born in Del.

(ED 487, 16)

 

1881 Directory: Jonathan Ogelsby

                         Washington P. Ogelsby, plumber, business address: 1017 Walnut

 

1887 Directory: Washington P. Ogelsby, plumber, 1017 Walnut

 

1890 Census Veterans Schedule: Washington P. Ogelsby, hospital steward, Aug., 1862 to Aug., 1864.

            “Washington Porter Oglesby was promoted from the ranks of Company ‘B,' and made hospital-steward of the regiment. He was intelligent, applied himself assiduously to his hospital duties, and made a most excellent officer — popular alike with the patients in the hospital, as well as with his medical superiors. He was warmly commended for the intelligent and assiduous manner in which he performed his official duties.” (History of the 127th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers…)

            “Washington P. Oglesby, 127 HQ, Hospital Steward, Promoted from Private of Company B on August 26, 1862 - mustered out with company on May 29, 1863.” (http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/cw/unit2.cfm?regiment=127&company=HQ)

            “Washington P. Oglesby, Reg. 201 Co. B, Private, Promoted to Hospital Steward on August 29, 1864.” (http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/cw/unit2.cfm?regiment=201&company=B)

 

1894: William Porter Ogelsby. Freshman, Science and Technology. (Catalogue of U. of P.)

 

1900:

W. Porter Ogelsby                   56        Plumbing and gas fitting; owner with a mortgage

Margaret F. Ogelsby                52        Married 29 years, 3 children

Edith A. Ogelsby                    27

William P. Ogelsby                  25        Plumbing and gas fitting

Mabel M. Ogelsby                   23

Catherine McCullough             25        Servant

(ED 543, 8A)

            In 1910, William lived with his wife and two children in Nether Providence, Delaware Co., Pa.

 

1901, April 17: Marriage of Mabel Miller Ogelsby to Clarence Bisopham Collier.

            Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 1901:

            “One of the prettiest after Easter weddings took place last evening in the Northminster Presbyterian Church, Thirty-fifth and Baring streets, when Miss Mabel Miller Ogelsby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Porter Ogelsby, was married to Mr. Clarence Bispham Collier by the Rev. Joseph Cochran, pastor of the church.  The bride was gowned in white net applique with lace and carried orchids and lilies of the valley.  Mrs. Joseph M. Peale, who was matron of honor, wore white silk muslin trimmed with chiffon.  She carried a Bernhardt bouquet of ferns and lilies of the valley.  The bridesmaids were Miss Ethel Moses, of New York; Miss Emily Ferguson, Miss Helen Stinson, Miss Lillian Hansom, Miss Elizabeth Collier, a sister of the groom, and Miss Marie Bispham.  They wore silk muslin trimmed with lace and green chiffon and carried bouquets of white splreae [?]. Mr. William Goodwin was best man, and the ushers were Mr. Bispham Stokes, Mr. William Doughton, Mr. Samuel Rotan, Mr. Charles Bispham, Mr. Victor Petrie, Mr. Edward Chase, Mr. Deacon, and Mr. John Bowen.

            “A reception followed the ceremony at the home of the bride’s parents, 3622 Baring street.  Later Mr. and Mrs. Collier left for an extended trip north.”

 

1902: William Porter Ogelsby, Jr. (Plumbing) Member of Psi Upsilon. (General Catalogue of Psi Upsilon)

            The 1917 Psi Upsilon Catalogue lists him as a plumber living at 6835 Wayne Ave. in Germantown.

 

1907, April 3, Philadelphia Inquirer: “J. B. R. McClure & Co., brokers, have sold the property at 3622 Baring street, for Anderson Givis, for a consideration named as nominal.”

 

1910:

William H. Petzelt       52        Carriage manufacturer; parents born in Germany

Marie H. Petzelt          42        Married 24 years, one child; born in Md., parents born in Germany

Helen V. Petzelt          21        Daughter; single

— 2nd household

Walter Griscom           62        Lodger; widowed; born in N.J., father born in Pa., mother in N.J.

(ED 492, 5B)

 

1920:

William H. Petzelt       65        Auto body builder; father born in Bavaria, mother in Switzerland

Mary A. Petzelt           51        Singer in a church choir; parents born in Nassau OC (spoke German)

Helen N. Petzelt          31        Piano instrumentalist; mother born in Md.

(ED 686, 5A)

 

1927 Directory: W. H. Petzell

 

1930:

Mary A. Petzell            60        Widowed, born in Maryland, parents born in Georgia; owner, house valued at $35,000

Earl Scotty                  40        Lodger; bookkeeper for steam railroad; single

Frank Erickson            32        Lodger; bookkeeper for steam railroad; single

Claude Andreeva         40        Lodger; machinist at U.S. Naval Yard; single

Francis Peters              22        Lodger; private nurse; single

Mary Powell                25        Lodger; private nurse; single

Ida Meyer                    68        Lodger; single; born in Maine

Elizabeth Ausley         50        Lodger; office clerk for department store; single

Mary Ausley                27        Lodger; stenographer; single

Robert Blackley           30        Lodger; manager of department store; married at age 29

Louise Blackley           21        Lodger; married at age 20; born in New York

Alice Thompson          70        Lodger; widowed; born in New York

(ED 398, 18A)

 

1950 Directory: Helen P. Dealy

                         Edward T. Gnup – (he later lived in Fullerton, Cal.)

                         Liborio A. Grilli

                         Robert E. Leary

                         Catherine Stavroff

 

2009: owner: Vaughn J. Cook

            purchase date: 10/1986

 

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