3632 Powelton Avenue
The
History of the Building
3630-3632: “three-story,
two-register brick houses; 3632 is a corner first-floor commercial property.
Pressed brick bands join the lintels at the second and third floors. Arches
are. splayed brick. Pressed brick decorates the slightly flared roof line. The
original porch has been removed”
(Inventory of
Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places, 1985)
Previous Residents of
3632 Powelton Avenue
1887
Directory: Warren Gilbough, banker
William Pollock, salesman
1895
Directory: W. Clark Barns
1900:
Lydia A. Gregory 65 Housekeeper; widowed, 6 children, 4
surviving
Nellie M. Gregory 27
Clarence T. Currier 35 Boarder; electrician; married 6 years;
born in New York
Rose G. Currier 32
Boarder; married 6 years, no
children; born in Vermont
Charles S. Anderson 31
Boarder; clerk for the Pennsylvania
Railroad
Patrick T. Mullin 37
Boarder; jeweler; single; born in
Rhode Island, parents born in Ireland
Nathaniel Fisher 38
Boarder; jeweler; married 21 years;
born in England
Mary A. Reed 64
Boarder; widowed, 2 children
Henry S. Reed 36
Boarder; bookkeeper
Susan E. Meredith 72
Boarder
Roy A. Hamaker 17 Boarder;
electrician
Lydia
(nee Memmypenny) Gregory was the widow of Wilson E.
Gregory. In 1880, they lived in Reading,
Berks Co., Pa. where he was an advertising clerk. His father was born in Delaware and his
mother in Connecticut. Nellie was listed
as Ella M. Their son, Wilson E. Gregory,
Jr. is listed here at the 1910 census (below).
1906 Blue
Book: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Spencer Reed
1908
Directory: Edward W. Grooscols [sic.], blacksmith
1910:
Wilson E. Gregory 41 Printer; married 13 years; renting
Della E. Gregory 38 Married 13 years, no children; born in
Michigan, father born in Michigan, mother in N.Y.
Edward Grooscors 49 Boarder;
railroad brakeman; married 19 years; born in Maryland, father born in Germany,
mother in Maryland
Lena Grooscors 43 Boarder;
married 19 years, 1 child (deceased); born in England, immigrated in 1867
Elizabeth Menz 24 Boarder;
dressmaker; born in N.J., parents born in Germany
Marie Hookey 25 Boarder;
stenographer
Thomas Hookey 23 Boarder;
real estate agent
John W. Bradley 37 Boarder; machinist for railroad; parents
born in England
In
1900, William and Adele Gregory lived at 13 N. 33sr St. In 1920, they lived at 6119 Lancaster
Ave. He was born in 1866 in Reading, Pa.
and died in Bryn Mawr in 1931.
In 1920, John W.
Bradley lived at the Sunderland
Apartments and in 1930, he lived at 3323
Powelton Ave. In 1940, he was a
boarder at 3412 Baring St.
1911
Directory: Edward W. Grooscors, foreman
The Florida Death Index lists his middle
name as William. He died in St.
Petersburg, Fla. in 1944. Lena died
there in 1954.
Charles J. Hookey,
real estate
Thomas J. Hookey,
real estate at 436 Land Title Building
Elizabeth Menz
1916, Feb.
28: Death of William M. Bartram of 3632 Powelton Ave.
In
1910, the Bartram family lived at 3628 Powelton Ave.
1918, Jul. 11:
Marriage license issued to Anna G. Eisfelter of 3632
Powelton Ave. and Walter Ball of 318 N. Salford St.
They
moved to 3701 Baring St.
1920:
Eliza E. Bartram 39 Born in Philadelphia; renting
Margaret H. Bartram 35 Sister; bookkeeper at a storage house
Ardella Keeler 49 Lodger; secretary for an insurance
company
--- 2nd household
William Armstrong 45 Doctor of allopathic medicine
Marion Armstrong 40
Marion Armstrong 18 Daughter
Eliza
and Margaret Bartram’s aunt, Margaret H. Bartram, was living next-door at 3630 Powelton Ave.
William
H. Armstrong and Marion Allen were married in Philadelphia in 1900. He was the son of Richard Armstrong and Mary
F. Kinsley. She was the daughter of David and Rachel
Allen. In 1900 and 1910, Rachel lived at
3703 Powelton Ave. William died in 1925 when they were living at
302 N. 35th St. In 1940, Marion lived with her sister at 317 N. 35th St.
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