3311 Arch Street
This
house was torn down.
Previous Residents
1898 Blue
Book: Robert Comly
Miss Helen Atkinson Comly
They
previously lived at 3521 Hamilton St. In 1880, they lived at 3408 Hamilton St.
1900:
Robert Comly 57 Wholesale grocer
Lydia T. Comly 57 Married
31 years, five children, four surviving; born in N.J.
Helen A. Comly 27
Caroline F. Comly 20
Marion S. Comly 13 daughter
Rose Costello 29 Cook;
born in Ireland
Bertha Bradley 21 Chambermaid; born in Ireland
1900: Caroline Farren Comly
received the degree of B.L. from Swarthmore College.
Marion
S. Comly was a senior at Swarthmore studying German.
1901, Sept.
11: Death of Lydia T. Comly, wife of Robert Comly and daughter of the late George T. and Elizabeth B.
Atkinson of Mullica Hill, N.J. of 3311 Arch. She was a member of Race St.
Meeting.
1902, Dec.
16: “Marriages: Bacon-Comly. On Twelfth month 16, 1902, at the residence
of the bride’s father, under the care of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of
Philadelphia, held at Race street, Ellis W. Bacon, son of Thomas P. and Annie
E. Bacon, and Helen A. Comly, daughter of Robert Comly and the late Lydia T. Comly” (Friends’
Intelligencer)
Ellis
Bacon lived with his parents at 3212 Baring St. The couple moved to 3603
Baring St.
1903: Marion
S. Comly graduated from Friends’ Central School.
1906 Blue Book:
Robert Comly, 3311 Arch
1906:
Marriage of Caroline F. Comly to Edson S. Harris
He
graduated from Swarthmore in 1902. In
1900, he lived with his parents and his grandmother at 605 N. 15th
St. In 1910, they lived in Aston,
Delaware Co., Pa. where he was a civil engineer.
1920:
Robert Comly 76 Wholesale grocer
Mary Comly 33
Hannah Curran 40 Servant; born in Ireland
Sabie Lavin 25 Servant;
born in Ireland
In
1930, Marion Comly was living with her older brother,
George W. Comly, in Rose Valley, Delaware Co. He was 55 years old and a mechanical
engineer. Neither of them was married.
1920, June
22: Death of Robert Comly
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