3508 Baring Street

*No structure presently stands at this address.

1860:

George Canby 31 Plumber and gas fitter; real estate: $3,200, personal property: $2,000

Matilda C. Canby 26 Born in Maine

Ann Carr 22 Servant; born in Ireland

Joseph Gellar 16 Servant; born in Pa.

The 1866 directory lists him living at 3726 Walnut St.

1868 Directory: William Stevenson, jeweler

1870:

William Stevenson 55 Retail Merchant; born in Ireland; real estate: $35,000; property: $35,000

Nancy Stevenson 51 Born in Ireland

Martha L. (Mattie) Stevenson 22

Robert Stevenson 19 Clerk in a store

John Stevenson 17

Emma Stevenson 16 In school

Helen Stevenson 14 In school

Margaret Haney 30 Domestic servant; born in Ireland

1878, Jan. 13: Death of William Stevenson, 64 years old, burial at Laurel Hill Cemetery

1879, Feb. 23: Marriage of Helen M. Stevenson to Charles B. Grant. at the Central Presbyterian Church, Downingtown, Pa.

In 1880, they lived at 3416 Powelton Ave.

1880:

Nancy Stevenson 62 Widowed

Mattie D. Stevenson 32

John E. Stevenson 27 Grocer

Emma M. Stevenson 26

Kate Stevenson 24 daughter-in-law

Margary Haney 32 Born in Ireland

Lizzie Haney 22 Born in Ireland

1890: Stevenson John E., bookkeeper

1900:

Frank P Housekeeper 47 Physician; owned free of a mortgage

Elizabeth G Housekeeper 57 Married 22 years, 1 child

William G Housekeeper 17 Student at Univ. Penna.

Louisa Bernard 35 Servant; black; born in Md.

Soloman Jones 24 Coachman; black

They were members of The Church of the Savior (Episcopal). Mrs. Housekeeper was born Elizabeth L. Gibbons. They previously lived at 3406 Powelton Ave.

1906 Blue Book: Frank P. Housekeeper, M.D.

1910:

Frank C Housekeeper 57 Doctor of medicine

Elizabeth G Housekeeper 67

William Housekeeper 29 Engineer

Ella Baker 28 Servant; black’ married 1 year, no children; born in Md.

Maud Baker 18 Servant; mulatto; born in N.J.

In 1920, Frank Housekeeper lived at the Aldine Hotel, 1914 Chestnut St. He was widowed. He was the son of Philip W. Housekeeper. (Elizabeth G. Housekeeper, below, was his aunt.)

1911: The Smith Atlas lists the owner as Elizabeth G. Housekeeper.

“Elizabeth King (260), only daughter of Joseph and Mary (Arndt) King, born at Mt. Pleasant, N. J., August 29, 1815; died at Narberth, Pa., May 14,1913. She married, October 21, 1849, Dr. Benjamin Housekeeper, of Philadelphia. He was a son of Philip and Mary (Hickman) Housekeeper, and was born in Chester County, Pa., April 2, 1807. Dr. Housekeeper spent practically all his adult life in Philadelphia. In early manhood he was a teacher in the public schools of Southwark, in the mean time taking up the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1843. He practiced medicine in Kensington, Philadelphia, until the time of his death in March, 1870. During the Civil War he was a surgeon in the Union Army.”

(The story of the Arndts: the life, antecedents and descendants of Bernhard ... John Stover Arndt, Warren Smedley Ely. 1922)

1911, July 16: Marriage license issued to Corita Slange of 3508 Baring St. and Robert Bullock of 3435 Market St.

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