The
History of the Building
200-206 N. 34th St.: “Both these buildings are three-story,
four-bay red brick doubles. Horizontal bands of pressed brick ornament the
building. Stepped bricks advance outward towards the flat roof line giving the
appearance. of a slightly flared upper story. The houses have original wood
porches. 204-06 has some altered posts, altered balustrades and roughcasted
base.
(Inventory of
Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the national register of Historic
Places)
1969: The houses on the west side of the 200 block of
Previous Residents of
1878 Atlas
shows the owner of 200-210 as Henry D. Justi.
Henry
D. and Elizabeth Justi lived at 3401 Baring St.
1882, May:
Deed transferred from Henry D. & Lizzie (wife) Justi to Samuel P. Sadtler.
1883
Directory: Samuel P. Sadtler, chemist
Edwin B. Sadtler, student
Samuel P. Sadtler was Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania 1874-1891. Chamberlain’s history of Penn (vol. 1,
1901) gives: “Consulting Chemist and Professor of Chemistry, was born in Pine
Grove, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1847. A son of Rev. Benjamin
Sadtler, D.O., and Caroline Elizabeth (Schmucker) Sadtler, he is descended from
some very distinguished clergymen in the Lutheran Church. His paternal
grandfather, Philip H. Sadtler, came to this country from Homburg, Hesse,
Germany, in 1799 and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. His maternal grandfather,
Rev. Samuel S. Schmucker, D.O., was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
in the Class of 1819 and afterward in 1826 founded the Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, remaining in that institution as
Professor of Theology until his retirement from active duty in 1864. He was
also instrumental while in Gettysburg in founding the Pennsylvania College at
that place. Professor Samuel P. Sadtler received his preparatory education at
the High School in Easton, Pennsylvania, where his father was residing at the
time. Entering the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg he graduated there as
Bachelor of Arts in 1867. For one year he pursued post-graduate study at Lehigh
University and then went to Harvard for a course of Science in the Lawrence
Scientific School, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1870.
Going abroad to continue his studies in chemistry he was graduated a Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of Goettingen in Germany in January 1871. For
three years from 1871 he served as Professor of Chemistry and Physics in the
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and in 1874 he was elected to teach General
and Organic Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania with the rank of
Assistant Professor of Chemistry. He continued to hold this position until
1887, when he was made Professor of Organic and Industrial Chemistry. His
connection with the University of Pennsylvania was severed in 1891 after a
service in the Faculty covering a period of seventeen years. He resigned his
Professorship to begin practice as a Consulting Chemical Expert in the field of
industrial technology and to devote a larger share of attention to his work as
Professor of Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, a position
which he has held from 1878 to date. Since the year 1895 he has also been the
honorary Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
Professor Sadtler is a member of nearly all the prominent American, English and
German Chemical Societies, including the Society of Chemical Industry. Since
1898 he has been Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. He has
contributed many writings to scientific journals and is the author of a
Hand-book of Chemical Experimentation, a Hand-book of Industrial Organic
Chemistry, now in its third edition, and a Text-book of Pharmaceutical and Medical
Chemistry, a work in two volumes now in its second edition. With Dr. H. C. Wood
and Professor J. P. Remington, he is the joint author of the 15th, 16th, 17th
and 18th editions of the United States Dispensatory. Professor
Sadtler was married in 1872 to Mary Julia Bridges of Baltimore, Maryland. He
has two sons.”
Prof. Samuel P. Sadtler
Edwin Beale Sadtler was Samuel Sadtler’s younger brother.
He received a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. The 1894
Catalogue of Matriculates gives the following: “b. Easton, Penna., Apr. 10,
1862. a. Rev. J. P. Benjamin Sadtler, D. D., and Caroline E. Schmucker. Entered
Soph. Class 1880. Φ. Κ. Ψ. Draughtsman. Suppt. of ship
draughting Harlan and Hollingsworth Ship Bldg. Co., Wilmington, Del. m. Mary
Moore, dau. George W. Sparks, Wilmington, Del. Address, 1012 Adams St.,
Wilmington, Del.”
1887 Directory: University of Penna., ....
Samuel P. Sadtler, Ph.D. chemistry, Sadtler, Samuel P., professor., 145 N 10th,
h 204 N 34th.
The 1881
Directory listed Samuel P Sadtler, teacher and Edwin B. Sadtler, student,
living at 3723 Locust.
“Sadtler Research Laboratories, founded in Philadelphia, PA in
1874 by Samuel P. Sadtler, has had a long history of serving chemistry. Samuel
Sadtler received his bachelor's degree at Harvard and his Ph.D. at the
University of Göttingen in Germany, having worked with Professor Bunsen (of
"Bunsen Burner" fame). Work in Dr. Sadtler's company includes the now
famous "99 44/100 percent pure" analysis of Ivory soap performed for
Harley Procter at Procter & Gamble in 1881.
“Fast-forwarding
60 years, the founder's grandson, Philip Sadtler, began generating and
publishing reference data for use with IR spectrometers at the request of
Richard Perkin and Charles Elmer, founders of the PerkinElmer company. The
resulting green books of Sadtler reference spectra that grace many libraries
and laboratories throughout the world gave way to the electronic era when
Bio-Rad acquired Sadtler in 1978 and began publishing electronic databases two
years later. Since then, the database collection has grown to its current
impressive size.”
(KnowItAll U;
Spectral Databases & Software Tools for Academic Research & Teaching.
Bio-Rad. Bulletin
#INF-96394, accessed Aug. 10, 2009.)
His obituary in
the Gettysburg Compiler, Dec. 29,
1923, read:
Dr. Samuel P. Sadtler, eminent In the world of chemistry as
author and professor. died after an illness of a year in the Presbyterian
Hospital. Philadelphia, aged 76 years. He is survived by two daughters and two
sons. Born at Pine Grove, Pa., he was the son or a Lutheran minister and grandson
or the founder of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, He was graduated from
Gettysburg College in 1867 and then from Lehigh and Harvard and then took a
course at University of Gottingen, Germany, returning to become professor of
chemistry at Gettysburg college.
Later he filled
chairs at the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Pharmacy, retiring
in 1891 to establish himself as a consulting chemical expert. He wrote many
authoritative articles on chemistry and physics, served a s chemical editor of
theU. S. Dispensatory. and fo r 20 years
helped on the
revision of the U. S. Pharrnacopae. He was president of the publication board
of the Lutheran church. a trustee of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and a
member of the Sons of Revolution, the Engineers and University Clubs of
Philadelphia. He was also a member of the American Philosophical Society, the
Franklin Institute and the Chemist Club of New York. He was the first president
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was the Ocherscausen
Professor of Natural Sciences at Gettysburg College from 1871 to 1874. He
married Julia Bridges, of Baltimore, in 1872.”
A biography of
him and his father, Rev. Benjamin Sadtler, can be found in Virtual
American Biographies. http://famousamericans.net/benjaminsadtler/.
1890 Blue Book: Prof. & Mrs. Samuel P. Sadtler
1894: Samuel Schmucker Sadtler graduated from the College of the
University of Pennsylvania. He went on to get a B.S. degree from M.I.T.
1895 Directory: Samuel P. Sadtler, chemist, 1042 Drexel Building
& v pres 1512 Chestnut, h 204 N. 34th
1897, February: Deed transferred from Samuel P. & Mary Julia
(wife) Sadtler to James O'Brien.
1897, February: Deed transferred from James O'Brien to Mary F.
Schall.
1897, July: Deed transferred from Mary F. Schall to Ellen F.
Hayden.
In 1880, Ellen Hayden lived in Hazel
Township, Luzerne, Pa. She was born in Vermont. Her husband was a coal operator
who was born in N.J. [?] and his parents were born in England. They had three
children, including Percy (see below).
1900:
Percy H.
Hayden 34 Lawyer; born Aug 1865; father born in
Ken. [?], mother in Vt.; owner, free of a mortgage
Charlotte Hayden 25 Married
4 years
Henry Allen 31 Servant; black; born in Ga
Julianna Allen 30 Cook;
black; born in WDC, parents in Va
In 1880, he lived with his parents
(see above).
1910: not
censused
1912, February: Deed transferred from James & Ellen (wife)
Hayden to Harry J. & Alva (wfe) Koelher.
1912, February: Deed transferred from Harry J. & Alva (wfe)
Koelher to James Gemmel.
1912, June: Deed transferred from James & Margaret Templeton
Rankin (wife) Gemmel to Sole & Eva (wife) Rhode.
1919, July: Deed transferred from Henrietta Jordan to Edwin M.
& Elizabeth C. (wife) Leavens.
1920, January: Deed transferred from Edwin M. & Elizabeth C.
(wife) Leavens to John Kline & Eleanor Leitch (wife).
1920:
Edwin M. Leavens
[Jr.] 55 Book
publisher; born in N.Y.; renter
Elizabeth C. Leavens
51
Jane C. Leavens 45 Sister;
clerk in a hotel; single; born in N.Y.
Walter R.
Lefferts 58 Lodger; clerk for the RR.; born in
Edwin
M. Leavens m. Elizabeth C. Jordan at
In 1910, they lived at 615 N. 34th
St. They had been married 22 years and had 1 child who had died.
Elizabeth’s mother, Henrietta Jordan, lived with them.
1925, August: Deed transferred from John & Eleanor Leitch
(wife) Kline to George H. Borst.
1925, August: Deed transferred from George H. & Susan P.
(wife) Borst to John F. Campbell.
1925, December: Deed transferred from John F. (widower) Campbell
to Edward C. Fish & John J. Rutherford.
1930:
Edwin Walton 24 Musician;
renting
Terry Walton 26
-- next household
Earl Backman 49 Baker
Elizabeth Backman
48
John Backman 24
1933, January: Deed transferred from Edward C. Fish & John J.
Rutherford to Nathaniel Knowles, Frank A. Sartori, Trustees of the estate of
Emily Baker Elliot.
1940:
Pauline R. Ernest 69 Widowed;
2 years of college; born in Germany; renting for $30 per month
Hibdetarale E.
Ernest 36 Daughter;
secretary for railroad co., earned $1,600 in 1939; single; born in Canada
_ next Hh.
Thomas C. Sykes 62 Percher
in a textile mill, earned $1,800 in 1939; born in West Indies, lived in rural
PA in 1935; 4 years of college; renting for $29
Elaine S. Sykes 47 Operator
for ladies’ dress co., worked 21 hours in past week, earned $700 in 1939; born
in NJ, lived in Vineland, NJ in 1935; 1 years of high school
_ next Hh.
John H. Harris n/a Widowed;
renting
1942, November: Deed transferred from Nathaniel Knowles, Frank A.
Sartori, Trustees of the estate of Emily Baker Elliot to Provident Trust Co.
Trustee will of Emily Baker Elliot.
1945, March: Deed transferred from Provident Trust Co. of Phila.,
Frank A Sartori Jr. sur of Emily B. Elliot to Marcell & Matilda (wife)
Maranzan.
1950 Directory: Marcel Maranzan
2006, the Pennsylvania Treasury Department list of unclaimed
property listed Mathilda Maranzan at this address, although she may not have
still lived here. (The Pennsylvania Bulletin, No. 06-1717.)
2009: It is now the home of ΑΕΠ fraternity.
8/7/2022