304 N. 35th Street

 

The History of the Building

 

302-304 N. 35th St. were designed and built by Wilson Brothers & Co.  They were torn down about 1960 for the playground of the Samuel Powel Elementary School.

 

Previous Residents

 

1889 Directory George Morris

            George Morris lived at 3616 Baring St. in 1880.

 

1898 Directory: Thomas Garrigues

            In 1890, he lived at 123 N 33rd.

 

1900 Directory: H. Sherwood Hicks, clerk, h 304 N 35th

            Mary A. Hicks, wid[ow] Edwd W., h 304 N 35th

            Thomas A. Hicks, sec[retary], 711 Stephen Girard Building,   h 304 N 35th

 

1906 Blue Book: Mrs. Rebecca A. McKinstry

                                    [Her husband, Andrew McKinstry, was listed at 3321 Hamilton St. in 1890-’91.  When he died December 21, 1894, he was living at 3707 Hamilton St. where his wife and daughter were enumerated in 1900.]

                          Miss Elizabeth E. McKinstry

                          Mrs. Thomas Garrigues

 

1913, Dec. 15: Marriage license issued to Mary T. Janney of 3412 Hamilton St. and Spencer L. Coxe of 304 N. 35th St.

 

1907, May 7: Death of James S. Freeland of 304 N. 35th St. Funeral at his late residence.

            In 1900, he lived at 3403 Hamilton St. with his wife, Francis.

 

1910: Enumerated together with 302 N. 35th St.

 

c1922: “Rebecca C. Weingardner (494), eldest daughter of Abraham A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner, born at Williamsport, Pa., April 7, 1849; married there March 10, 1868, Hugh Louis Trimble, of that city. He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, August 13, 1845, and was a son of Samuel and Mary (Flanagan) Trimble. Hugh Louis Trimble and his wife lived in Williamsport, Pa., until March 19, 1884, when they removed to Philadelphia, where he is solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, residing at 304 N. 35th St.”

(The Story of the Arndts: The Life, Antecedents and Descendants of Bernhard Arndt…. John Stover Arndt. 1922 )

 

1930 census: Anthony Galzinis [sp?] (ED 398, 17A)

 

n.d.: Powelton Post, Jan 1964: “Luella Parker and her daughter Sarah lived at 35th & Pearl for 24 years.”

            Sarah was profiled in the Powelton Post, April, 1961.

 

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