3307 Hamilton St.
The
History of the Building
The
northern edge of this property was part of the northern boundary of the
Bingham-Baring estate.
“Three-story double… Italianate typical of
Powelton neighborhood - stuccoed, double-brackets below overhanging
shallow-pitched roof.”
(Inventory of
Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places, 1985)
Previous Residents
1860:
Sylvester Billings 43 Hatter; born in Mass.; real estate:
$2,000, personal property: $1,000
Hester Billings 42 Born in NY
Edward N. Billings 12
Harry B. Billings 10
Susan McKean 72 Born in NY
1860 Directory: Billings Sylvester,
Hamilton abv. 33rd
1861 Directory: Billings Sylvester,
hatter, Hamilton abv. 33rd
1866, June: Deed transferred from Henry G. Imhoff to Martha W.
Fullerton.
1870:
Martha Fullerton 43 Real estate:
$3,500, personal: $1,800
Anna M. Fullerton 16 Born in
Dora Fullerton 15 Born in
Mary Fullerton 14 Born in
Emma Fullerton 12 Born
in Hindustan
George S. Fullerton 10 Born in
Edward G. Fullerton 6 Born in
Nancy L.[sic.] White 82 Mother
The
follow brief biographies of the Fullerton family are from Record of the Smith Family Descended from John Smith, Born 1655 in
County Monaghan, Ireland, Joseph Smith Harris, Published by G.F. Lasher,
1906 and Genealogy of Hugh Stewart and
Descendants, compiled by Francenia Stewart White, Esther Stewart Hunt and
Emma Stewart Lyman 1914.
Photos of the
Fullerton family courtesy of descendants of Dora Fullerton.
Agnes (Nancy) Smith
Grier - “Her husband, Robert White, was
a Presbyterian clergyman. He was born near Trappe in Montgomery Co., Pa., July
26, 1784, educated at Norristown Academy, and studied theology under Rev.
Nathan Grier, whose daughter he married. He was licensed to preach by New
Castle Presbytery April 4, 1809, and became, December 14, 1809, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Fagg's Manor, two and one-half miles south of
Cochranville,
“He was a man of fine talents, and an instructive
and successful preacher.
“He and his wife are buried at Fagg's
Manor.”
Martha
White Fullerton, 1825-1895
“Martha White [
“Her husband, Robert Stewart Fullerton, was
a Presbyterian clergyman, born in
“The
“Robert Stewart Fullerton was graduated from
“He and his wife sailed for
“He was an excellent linguist, and had a
cheerful, sunny disposition, which much endeared him not only to the people of
“His wife, with their children, returned to
Anna
Martha Fullerton, 1853-1938
“Anna Martha Fullerton (XX 133) was born in
Agra, India. When, after her father's death in 1865, his family returned to
Dora
Fullerton Waldo, 1854-1886
“Dora Fullerton was born in Agra, India,
August 24, 1854. She was educated in Philadelphia Girls' High School and Normal
School, and taught for a little while in a private school in Philadelphia,
before her marriage, on March 15, 1875 to Leonard Waldo, who was born May 4,
1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was graduated Harvard D. Sc. 1879; Yale A. M.,
1880…. Leonard Waldo was, for some
years, attached to the staff of the astronomical observatory at Cambridge,
Mass., in charge of the railroad time service. In 1874 he was a member of the
expedition which observed, in New Zealand, the transit of Venus, and in 1878 he
went to Fort Worth, Texas, in a similar capacity, to observe the total eclipse
of the sun. After leaving the service of Harvard University, Mr. Waldo was for
several years connected with the astronomical Observatory of Yale University.
“Dora Fullerton was a woman of charming
personality; had marked literary ability and wrote several articles for the
magazines of the day. She was also a fine musician. Her social gifts made her a
great favorite, in the literary circles of Cambridge and New Haven. She died in
New Haven, Ct., Feb. 19, 1886, leaving three children: Edith Waldo, Fullerton
Leonard Waldo, and Dorothy Waldo.” (White, Hunt and Lyman, 1914)
Mary
Fullerton, 1856-?
“Mary Fullerton was born in Agra, India,
Jan. 26, 1856. When her mother took the children of the family back to America
(after the death of their father,) Mary was nearly ten years of age. Her mother
settled in W. Philadelphia, Pa., where with her sisters Mary attended a Young Ladies' Academy conducted by her uncle, the
Rev, John Moore, (a brother-in-law of her mother's). Upon his removal from the
city, her education was continued in the Public Schools, and she was graduated
from the Girls' High and Normal Schools of Phila: when seventeen years of age.
After that, while teaching in a private school, she carried on her studies in
music, the languages and sciences, under private tutors. On the 25th of Jan.
1877, she sailed for India in company with Mrs. J. L. Scott, to engage in the
work of teaching in the Woodstock School, in Landour, on the Himalaya Mts., a
school connected with the Foreign Missionary Board of the Presbyterian Church
in America. After ten years of work in this school, she returned on furlough to
America. Family circumstances made it necessary to resign her connection with
the Mission and kept her in the home land, until the death of her mother, in
1895, made it possible for her to return to India. She was stationed, for two
years after her return, in Jhansi, United Provinces, and worked among the women
and girls of that city, until an urgent call from the Girls' School in
Allahabad, took her to that station for a year of service as Principal of the
School.
“At the end of a year she went to Fatehgarh,
the scene of the labor of her parents, after the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. Here
she took charge of the work for Women and Girls in Furrukhabad City. She
succeeded in establishing there a large Central School for Hindoo Girls, in
1901, which continues to be the leading school for girls in the city up to the
present time. (1913). Since her last furlough to America. (taken in 1910,) she
has given up active connection with the work in Fatehgarh and Furrukhabad, and
is living with her sister Anna M. Fullerton in Landour, N. India. She is still
a self-supporting Missionary of the Board, and does active work in connection
with many of the committees of the Mission.” (White, Hunt and Lyman, 1914)
Emma
White Fullerton, 1857-1885
“Emma White Fullerton was born in the fort
at Agra during the Sepoy Rebellion. She had decided artistic ability, and
pursued her art studies in several studios in America and Europe, in the
Philadelphia School of. Design, where she taught for a time, and in the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her early death prevented ·the realization
of the artistic success which her friends anticipated for her.” (White, Hunt and
Lyman, 1914)
A painting by Emma W. Fullerton entitled “Indian Ayah
with Sleeping Child” was offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2008. The notes accompanying the listing state that
“Few pictures by
“This catalogue note [for the 1879 exhibition] was
written by Dr. Emily M. Weeks. The Academy's exhibition records list only two
works by
George Stuart Fullerton,
1859-1925
“George Stuart Fullerton, clergyman and
professor… was born in Fatehgarh, India, August 18th, 1859. He was graduated
from the Department of Arts, University of Penna. (which he entered from the West Phila. Academy) in 1875; was graduated A. B. 1879,
and A. M. 1882 and A. B. Yale 1883, and Ph. D. (honorary) Muhlenberg, 1892. He
was Class Poet. After graduation he pursued post-graduate studies in theology
and philosophy, Princeton, 1879, and at Yale 1880-1883. He was licensed in the
Presbyterian Church; afterwards ordained into the ministry of the Episcopal
Church. In 1883 he returned to the University of Penna., as Instructor in
Philosophy and was subsequently, 1885-1887, Adjunct Professor, and 1887 to
date, Professor of Philosophy. From 1889-90 Dean of College, and Vice-Provost
of the University of Pa.; and 189&98 Vice-Provost of the University. In his
Annual Report 18g8, the Provost says, ‘On assuming the office of Provost, and
for the four years of my administration, I was greatly helped by the wise
counsel and loyal assistance, of the Vice-Provost of my own nomination, the
Rev. George S. Fullerton. I have all along been aware that in rendering this
assistance in administration work, Professor Fullerton was making large
sacrifice of the thought and strength which rightly belonged to his Chair and
to the well-chosen lifework to which he is so adapted. I was therefore not
surprised, although I deeply regretted it, when he tendered his resignation
last March, and at the same time applied for long leave of absence for
recuperation and refreshing study. His services as Vice Provost have been of
great and enduring value to the University, and will be long remembered. We
hope to welcome him back to the duties of his chair at the beginning of the
next Academic year, invigorated and ripened by his sojourn abroad, and that,
for many years to come, he may adorn the position which he seems to have
logically inherited from his own great teacher, - some time also Vice Provost,
the Rev. Dr. Krauth’ He was, in 1896, President of the American Psychological
Association. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He
has-published : Preliminary Report of the Seybert Commission on Spiritualism;
The Conception of the Infinite; A Plain Argument for God; On Sameness and
Identity in Sensation; The Philosophy of Spinoza; On the Perception of Small
Differences, (with James McKeen Cattell,) beside numerous articles and
addresses mostly on philosophical and educational topics, or in relation to the
University of Pennsylvania. He married in Alexandria, Va., Jan. 20th.
1884, Rebekah Daingerfield Smith, who
died May 5th, 1892; and in Phil. March 8th, 1897, Julia Winslow Dickerson. He
has no children. (White, Hunt and Lyman, 1914)
This short biography written in 1914 leaves
off where some of the most interesting part of his life began. His significant contributions to philosophy
and psychology and his tragic end were described in the New York Times at the
time of his death in 1925:
“DR.
G. S. FULLERTON COMMITS SUICIDE
“Health
Broken in German Prison Camp, He Hangs Himself in Poughkeepsie.
“TAUGHT
LAST YEAR AT VASSER
“Former
Professor of Philosophy at Columbia Was Lecturing at Munich When Interned.
“Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., March 23.
“A chronic and despairing suffer from ill
health, contracted through a long internment in German prison camps in the
World War, Professor George Stuart Fullerton, former Professor of Philosophy at
Columbia, 66 years old, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself in a
close closet of his home. He placed a chair in the closet, looped a piece of
close line over a hook in the door and slipped his head within the noose.
“Professor Fullerton's poor health caused
him to express the desire to die and he had seldom been left alone. Mrs.
Fullerton left the house for a half hour this morning to confer with a nephew,
Harold Dickerson, about a trip South for the professor's health. Arthur M.
Williamson, who lived with them, accompanied her. She returned home early and
found the body.
“The news of Professor Fullerton's death
saddened many friends in the Faculty of Vassar College, where he had been a
guest professor. Although not a regular member of the Faculty, Professor
Fullerton was a welcome lecturer. He took up his residence here several years
ago, and gave brilliant lectures. His most important work, ‘A System of
Metaphysics,’ and his ‘Introduction of Philosophy,’ are well-known.
“Funeral services will be held at the
Fullerton residence, 12 Randolph Ave., at 2:30 P. M., on Thursday.”
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“A Foremost Philosopher
“Dr. George Stuart Fullerton, one of the
foremost modern philosophers, who committed suicide by hanging himself at
Poughkeepsie yesterday, was the first of this country's exchange professors to
occupy a chair and University of Vienna. He was appointed in 1913, leaving
Columbia University, where he had headed the Department of Philosophy, for
Vienna, to deliver a series of lectures. His lectures their continued through
the spring of 1914 and included the following subjects.
“The
Realistic Philosophy of Experience, Modern
Currents of Thought in England and the United States and The Constitution and Administration of
American Universities. Later he also lectured at Graz, Innsbruck and other
cities.
“His record for scholarship was so highly
regarded by Emperor Franz Joseph that the latter appointed him honorary
professor at the University of Vienna, a rare and much coveted distinction.
“As a writer of philosophic treatises,
Professor Fullerton was adjudged one of the most significant and important
contributors of recent years. Throughout his works are charged with an
eagerness and a desire to promote amity among the peoples of the earth. Shortly
after the outbreak of the World War in Germany Professor Fullerton was among
the first to point out the difference between that country and militarism by
which it was ruled. He held that the German people, as such, were a peaceful
folk and victims of a system which they espoused against their inherent
impulses.
“These doctrines, especially dangerous at
that time and place, caused his internment in a German prison camp where he
severed severe hardship and starvation for more than four years. Thereafter he
was too ill to teach, except for short intervals.
“Professor Fullerton was born in
Fatehgarh, India, sixty-six years ago, the son of the Rev. Robert Stuart
Fullerton. He came to this country as a youth and at the University of
Pennsylvania received his A. B. Degree in 1879 and A. M. in 1882. The next year
at Yale he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He joined the Faculty
of the University of Pennsylvania and one is Ph. D. and Muhlenberg College in
1892.
“In 1884 he married Miss Rebekah Daingerfield
Smith of Alexandria, Va., who died in 1892. Five years later he married Julia
Winslow Dickerson of Philadelphia, his widow.
“Remaining at the University of
Pennsylvania until 1904 he then went to Columbia University and taught there
nine years.
“Among Dr. Fullerton's works is Germany of Today, The World We Live In,
Handbook of Ethical Theory, Die Amerikanishen Hochschulen, The System of
Metaphysics, On Spinocistic Immorality, The Philosophy of Spinoza, On the
Perception the Small Differences in Sensation (with Professor Catell), Plain
Argument for God, and On Sameness and
Identity.
“Dr. Fullerton was a member of the Century
Club of New York, the American Philosophical Association, and Phi Beta Kappa.
He was also President of the American Psychological Association.”
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“Called
Brilliant Teacher.
“Dr.
Fullerton Praised by Professor Coss of Columbia
“Prof. John J Coss, executive officer in
the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University yesterday characterized
Professor Fullerton as a ‘brilliant teacher.’ He said:
‘We were deeply disturbed when we learned
of the death of Professor Fullerton. He had not been in active service at the
University for several years, although he always maintained a nominal
connection with the department. He was an exceptionally brilliant teacher, with
broad contacts here and abroad. He had been in ill health for the last
twenty-five years, and was finally forced to retire. Since he had been at
Poughkeepsie he had seldom visited here, although he kept his contact through
letters. The last note I have from him was written in a shaky hand and he spoke
of his continued ill health.’”
Edward
Grier Fullerton, 1863-1911
“Edward Grier Fullerton, Ph. D., D. D.,
son of the Rev. Robert Stewart and Martha (White) Fullerton, was born July
14th, 1863 in Landour, N. India. He made public confession of his faith in the
Princeton Presbyterian Church, Phila., Pa., at the age of fourteen. His
preparatory studies were pursued in the W. Phila.
Academy under Prof. F. W. Hastings, and he graduated from the University of
Pa. in 1883. He then spent three years in the United States Signal Service;
mostly in the State of Montana. Entering the Seminary at Princeton in the fall
of 1886, he took the full three years course there, graduating in 1889. He was licensed
by the Presbytery of Phila. Central, April 9, 1888, and ordained by a
Congregational Council in Plymouth Church, Worcester, Mass., June 13, 1889. He
was assistant pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Worcester, Mass.,
from May 1889 to Jan. 1890; pastor of Park Congregational Church, Worcester,
from Jan. 1890 to Jan. 1891; pastor of Park Street Congregational Church of
Bridgeport, Conn., from Jan. 1891 to May 1904; and pastor of First Presbyterian
Ch. Wilkesbarre, Pa., from May 12th, 1904, to Sept. 20th, 1910, when ill-health
compelled him to give up his pastoral work. He continued his residence in
Wilkesbarre, (traveling for his health during the last year of his life) until
his death, which occurred July 5th, 1911, in Hartford, Conn., of heart failure,
within 9 days of the completion of his 48th year.
“He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, New
Haven, Conn. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Yale Univ. in 1896 and of D.
D. from Lafayette in 1904.
“He married Flora Cooper Brown, in New
Haven, Conn., June 6th, 1889.”
(From Princeton
Theological Seminary Necrological Report for 1912. Reprinted in White, Hunt
and Lyman, 1914.)
1880:
M. W. Fullerton 54
George G. Fullerton 21 Son; student; born
in
Edward G. Fullerton 17 Son; student; born
in
Jas. G. Scott 17 Boarder;
student; born in
Harriet E. Scott 20 Boarder;
music teacher; born in
A. M. Fullerton 27 Boarder
[sic.]; teacher; born in
Emma Fullerton 22 Boarder
[sic.] artist; born in
About 1883, The Fullerton family
moved to 3208 Race St.
The 1887 Directory lists Rev. George S. Fullerton living at
1883, June: Deed transferred from Martha W. Fullerton to
Elizabeth Jolliffe.
1890 Directory: Sarah C. Hayward
1900:
Horatio S. Howell 44 Sales of boots
and shoes; father born in N.Y., mother in N.J.; renting
Catherine L. Howell 40 Married 19 years,
1 child; born in Wisc., father in
Catherine L. Howell 18
E. Lillie Bohf 17 Servant;
parents born in
In 1880, Horatio S. Howell was
living in
1905, November: Deed transferred from Elizabeth Jolliffe to William Parry Jolliffe.
1910:
Horatio S. Howell 54 Shoe salesman;
father born in N.J., mother in N.Y.; owner with a mortgage
Katharine Howell 52 Married 29
years, 1 child; born in Wisc., father in
Katharine L. Howell 28 English
teacher; single
1920:
Horatio S. Howell 63 Commission merchant in boots and shoes;
widowed; father born in N.J., mother in N.Y.; owned free of a mortgage
Katharine L. Howell 38 High
school teacher; single
In 1930, Catherine was living in the
Concord Hall Apartments, 4418 Spruce St.
She shared an apartment with Alice H. Tallent, a physician (1920 census
says obstetrician) age 54. Catherine was still a high school teacher.
1927 Directory: H. S. Howell
1940:
Robert M. Holm 34 Self-employed;
renting at $30 a month; 4 yrs. high school
Sarah Holm 34 High school teacher; 4 yrs. college
Robert M. Holm grew up next door at 3305 Hamilton St. where his father lived until his
death in 1941. He and Sara M. Eggeling
were married in Philadelphia in 1930.
The 1950 directory lists him around the
corner at 409 N. 33rd St.
He died in 1974 in Merion Station, Pa.
2007, March: purchased by Leslie Berman Isen and
Nathan D. Isen
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