The History of the Building
1866: A resolution of the Select and City Councils
of Philadelphia naming J. Henry Askin as a surety of Richard Peltz, Receiver of
Taxes elect, and the City Solicitor includes among the properties to finance
the sureties the “lot or piece of ground whereon is erected the premises
numbered 3701 and 3703 Baring St.”
(Journal Common Council, City of
Philadelphia. For the Year 1866. Vol 2. 1867. Pp. 163-4.)
1872 Hopkins Atlas lists Richard Peltz for 3701 (but J. Henry Askin for
3703).
3701-03:
“three-story, red brick Victorian double with - corbelled brick lintels;
modillioned wood cornice. - Porch alterations; 3701 enclosed and stuccoed.”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
Previous Residents of
1870:
Richard Peltz 38 Tax receiver; real estate: $15,000, personal: $12,000
Anna S. Peltz 27 Real estate: $25,000, personal: $10,000
Samuel Peltz
9
(ED 77, 117)
1866 Dir.: Richard Peltz, clerk, S E
6th & Chestnut, h 518 Dickerson
1880:
Richard Peltz 47 Clerk
Anna S. Peltz 42
Samuel Peltz 20 Law student
(ED 489, 6)
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1889: Samuel Peltz was the auditor for the accounts of
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1894 New York Times: “THE
QUAKER CITY REBELS: A Veritable Revolution Against Corruption and Bossism.”
...
“Now the rest of the combine forms
as perfect a working “machine” as ever dictated to a municipal
corporation. The thirty-seven members
look to Martin, Porter, and
“Here is the machine which dominates
“Twenty-fourth Ward—Samuel Peltz and
C. Wesley Thomas. Peltz is a
Representative in the State Legislature, and Thomas is a State Senator.”
( "Quaker
City Rebels: A Veritable Revolution Against Corruption and Bossism." New
York Times 30 Dec. 1894.)
1881 Directory: Richard Peltz, dep clerk court quarter sessions
Samuel Peltz, student
1884-‘93: Samuel Peltz was Solicitor to the
Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings,
1890: Richard Peltz, Court Quarter Sessions, h 3701 Baring
Samuel Peltz, 223 S 6th,
h 3701 Baring
1900:
Richard
Peltz 67 Clerk of court; widowed; owner free of a
mortgage
Samuel Peltz 39 Lawyer; single
Irene M. Kupp 35 Housekeeper
(ED 549, 3A)
Samuel Peltz
“SAMUEL PELTZ, Representative from the Twenty-fourth
Philadelphia District, is one of the ablest of the younger members of the
Legislature, and this is his second term at law-making. He has won distinction
as a calm, logical, forceful speaker and an industrious and sagacious worker.
Mr. Peltz was born in Philadelphia on September 9, 1860. His father, Richard Peltz, is Deputy Clerk
of the Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia, an ex-member of the City Councils and
one of the Public Building Commissioners to whom special tributes of respect
were paid by members of the present Legislature in their fight to abolish that
commission. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a member
of the House of Representatives in 1830. The grandson was educated in private
schools and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the college
department of the latter institution in 1880. He studied law with the late
William Nelson West [3716
Hamilton St.], City Solicitor of Philadelphia, and Henry J. McCarthy, and
was admitted to the bar in 1882. He has practiced his profession ever since in
his native city, mainly in civil cases, but has been very successful at the
criminal bar also. He was Assistant City Solicitor from 1882 to 1884, and
Solicitor of the Public Buildings Commission for nearly four years, resigning
the latter position to be a candidate for Representative. He served as a delegate in numerous
nominating conventions, particularly those for Judges and City Solicitor. In
November, 1892, he was elected Representative by a majority of about 2,700 over
his Democratic opponent, and in 1894 was re-elected by about 5,000 plurality.
In 1895 he was chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and a member of
the Judiciary General, Ways and Means and other important Committees. His
extensive legal knowledge and forensic skill were displayed in 1893 in his
leadership, on the side of the Public Buildings Commission, of the discussion
off the bill to abolish that body. Besides being enrolled in several local
political clubs, including the Lincoln and Belmont Clubs of the Twenty -fourth
Ward, Mr. Peltz is a member of the Young Republicans and Union League.” (William Rodearmel. Portraits and sketches of heads of state departments and members of the
legislature of Pennsylvania; 1895. Pg. 231)
1902, June 18: Marriage of Lillie A. Crippen (423 N. 33rd
St.) to Samuel Peltz. They were
married by a minister from the Church of the Savior (Protestant Episcopal),
38th and Chestnut Streets.
1910:
Richard Peltz 77 Widowed;
owner, free of a mortgage
Alice Anthony 48 Niece;
public school teacher
Agnes Curran 30 Servant;
born in
(ED 499, 6A)
1920:
Walter
Ball 48 Machinist (?); renting
Anna N. Ball 52
– 2nd
household
William H.
Waker 66 Tailor with own shop; father born in
Ellen V. Waker 66 Born
in
Helen
Livingstone 45 Boarder; teacher
Louise Bell 47 Boarder; clerk; born in
Lida Marsham 38 Boarder;
clerk
(ED 710, 7B)
1950 Directory: Harry J. Furman
M. Feely Hopkins
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