This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/4708.2 Message Board Post: I have no experience with the city directory for Baltimore, but you should check out the Reverend Ice to see if his place of employment is given. A library catalogued the directory as : Polk's Baltimore (Maryland) City Directory . . . 1887-19__. Baltimore: R.L. Polk & Co., c1887-19__. __ vols. Title varies: 1887-1904, R.L. Polk & Co's Baltimore City Directory; 1905-1921, Baltimore City Directory . . .; 1922-27, Polk's Baltimore City Directory . . .; 1928-__, Polk's Baltimore (Maryland) City Directory . . . The first directory for this city was published in 1796. Reg Niles