3406 Spring Garden Street

 

3406-3408: “three-story, Italianate double, stuccoed; cruciform plan; front and side Victorian wood porch; entrance in cross arm. Large bracketed overhanging roof. Paired arcuated third-floor windows. Decorative cast iron lintels over second-floor windows. Rusticated stone quoins.”

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

 

History

 

1866 Directory: Francis K. Shipper, merchant, 220 N. Broad, h Bridge n 34th

            The 1861 Directory lists him living at 322 Catherine St. The 1857 Directory list him at 166 Queen St.

            “Francis K. Shipper, Abraham Detweiler, and Isaac Detweiler, partners doing business as Shipper & Detweiler… were commission merchants and dealers in grain and flour, citizens of Pennsylvania, and residents in Philadelphia. They owned a flouring-mill in Wheeling, at which they ground grain, purchased by them in Ohio and the vicinity of Wheeling, including Washington county, Pennsylvania. They carried this flour and grain from various states of the Union by water to Pittsburgh, and there delivered it… for transportation to Philadelphia.” (Pennsylvania State Reports, Vol. 47, 1865)

 

1870:

Francis Shipper            44        Commission merchant; no real estate; personal: $75,000

Clara Shipper               36        Real estate: $ 7,000

Frank G. Shipper         18        Clerk [?]

Ella Shipper                 17

Julia Shipper                15

Kate Shipper                13

William Shipper           11

Isaac De Young Shipper 8

Cecilia Shipper               4

Annie Heon                 21        Domestic servant; born in Ireland

            In 1880, they lived at 3313 Baring St. Ella Shipper married Walter Raymond Kern about 1877. They lived at 206 N. 36th St.

 

1880:

William Anderson        50        Wholesale liquor; born in Ireland

Annie Anderson          38        Parents born in Ireland

Lizzie Anderson          13

Nellie Anderson            4

Anna Mc Quade          32        Servant; single; parents born in Ireland

            “William Anderson, 1865.—Native of County Donegal, Ireland. Emigrated to America in 1849, landing at Philadelphia in June. Was in the liquor business for many years. Was at one time a partner in the firm of Henry Wallace & Co. He died, June 14, 1889, in Philadelphia, and was buried in Old Cathedral cemetery. Was about 67 years of age when he died.”

            (History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Hibernian Society.... John Hugh Campbell. 1892.)

 

1881 Directory: William Anderson (Anderson & Schmitz, h 3406 Spring Garden

                        Anderson & Schmitz (William Anderson & Charles M. Schmitz), liquors, 134 N 3d

 

1890 Blue Book: Mr. & Mrs. James G. Carson

 

1898 Blue Book: James G. Carson

 

1907: George M. Dunlap. Member Sectional School Board. Board of Public Education 24th section: meetings held in the Haverford School-house, Haverford St. below 36th, first Monday of each month, except July. Annual Report of Board of Public Education. Philadelphia. 1911)

 

1911: Carol V. R. Caldwell, member: Engineer’s Society of PA. treasurer, Richards Garage Company, manufacturing automobiles and gasoline engines. (Journal of Engineers Society of Pa., Vol. 3, 12/1911)

 

1927 Directory: Miss E. S. Howes

 

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