"unions destroyed America's industrial base." HUH?

Rich, h is house an r is rear, at one time there were a lot of 1 2 3 houses with a rear in back. Lorri searching- ALLEN-BARNETT-CARROLL-BURNS GEIGER-Veach -GEARIN-KANE-SMITH-MOYLAN DONAHUE ----- Original Message ----- From: "ColumbusGuy" <plugnplaycmh@yahoo.com> To: <PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 2:10 PM Subject: [Phly-Rts] generic question about Pihla city directories around 1907 > Hi, > > The Philadelphia library sent me a copy of a listing from the 1907, 1908 > and 1909 city directories. I'm trying to figure out what a letter "h" > means. > > An example: Thomas Mary h 1936 S. Hick > > Most all of the listings have this letter. It is not a middle initial, > and other listings show a middle initial and it is capitalized. I've also > seen a few listings with the letters "h r". > > Can someone tell me what these letters mean? I suspect "h" means "house" > or "home". > > Thanks > Rich > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who > knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello If you go to the url listed below, you can read a book on the textile industry in Phila. Their is a long list of Veriee textile manufactures list which one of them is my great grandfather John Cotshott. John http://books.google.com/books?vid=0rcDpQE0iT85nFDvuW&id=RsIFAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22john+cotshott%22#PPA22,M1

union "BUSTING" did it ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Textile mills -- ADMIN > > In a message dated 5/19/2007 10:33:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, > TCall2004@comcast.net writes: > > "unions destroyed America's industrial base." > > > HUH? > > > > ----- > Please let's not get into a debate that could turn out to be political in > nature. Thanks! > > Joan, admin > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, The Philadelphia library sent me a copy of a listing from the 1907, 1908 and 1909 city directories. I'm trying to figure out what a letter "h" means. An example: Thomas Mary h 1936 S. Hick Most all of the listings have this letter. It is not a middle initial, and other listings show a middle initial and it is capitalized. I've also seen a few listings with the letters "h r". Can someone tell me what these letters mean? I suspect "h" means "house" or "home". Thanks Rich --------------------------------- Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.

In a message dated 5/19/2007 10:33:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, TCall2004@comcast.net writes: "unions destroyed America's industrial base." HUH? ----- Please let's not get into a debate that could turn out to be political in nature. Thanks! Joan, admin PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Possibly Foresters of America. See: http://www.exonumia.com/art/society.htm Vince On 5/18/07, Jpbeggin@aol.com <Jpbeggin@aol.com> wrote: > Hi: > Trying to find what Court General John F. Reynolds No. 170 F of A. was. > The Man was a catholic and the above court was invited to his Funeral. Any > help would be a great. Thank Joe Beggin > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi: Trying to find what Court General John F. Reynolds No. 170 F of A. was. The Man was a catholic and the above court was invited to his Funeral. Any help would be a great. Thank Joe Beggin ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Hi Maybe I missed this if it was posted but here goes anyway. The Philadelphia Inquirer listed a great site last week. The web address is www.phillyhistory.org Great old pictures for genealogists and for those that live or lived in Philly...great memories. Susan

Mostly textile mills. Philadelphia was the textile capital of the nation until after WWII when the government policies and unions destroyed America's industrial base. Gene Stackhouse A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. Not Bad >From: EileenCrook@aol.com >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Mills - Twenty-third and Filbert >Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:41:14 EDT > >Dear readers > >May I once again thank all those very kind people who replied to my >question >regarding 'meanings of occupations'. I have another question now if I may >- >I appreciate this may be impossible to answer but I just have to ask - the >fact that the person involved worked with leather may be of help or >perhaps he >just worked as a labourer at this point in time - who knows. > >In a newspaper article from the Philadelphia Inquirer 1897 > >"Wandered Around For Forty Years >Patrick Donnelly's Return to Family After a Long Absence > ........................ > > Soon he found himself in the neighborhood of Twenty-third and >Filbert where he had lived, with his young wife, and earned a scanty living >in the mills near by. Since he had seen her and his little ones he had >changed from a young husband to a gray haired and gray whiskered old man. >....." > >My question therefore is what kind of mills would have been in the area >mentioned above at that time ? Details of the district/ward number for >this >address around 1850/1860 would also be extremely useful. > > >My thanks as always > > >Eileen > > > > > > > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear readers May I once again thank all those very kind people who replied to my question regarding 'meanings of occupations'. I have another question now if I may - I appreciate this may be impossible to answer but I just have to ask - the fact that the person involved worked with leather may be of help or perhaps he just worked as a labourer at this point in time - who knows. In a newspaper article from the Philadelphia Inquirer 1897 "Wandered Around For Forty Years Patrick Donnelly's Return to Family After a Long Absence ........................ Soon he found himself in the neighborhood of Twenty-third and Filbert where he had lived, with his young wife, and earned a scanty living in the mills near by. Since he had seen her and his little ones he had changed from a young husband to a gray haired and gray whiskered old man. ....." My question therefore is what kind of mills would have been in the area mentioned above at that time ? Details of the district/ward number for this address around 1850/1860 would also be extremely useful. My thanks as always Eileen

The arsenal downtown was the Schuylkill Arsenal. Franford Arsenal closed some years ago. I think that the Schuylkill Arsenal is still operating in some capacity. Gene Stackhouse A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. Not Bad >From: EileenCrook@aol.com >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Meanings of occupations >Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:31:02 EDT > >Dear readers > >Amongst other Donnelly's, I am searching at the moment for Michael and a >sister Mary. So far the following census return seems to be the closest I >have >found so far but I have my doubts as the sister in question here is >unmarried >whereas my Mary's surname should have been Doyle. There are 2 questions >that I would like to ask if you will all bear with me. > >1910 census > >143 - 24th street, Philadelphia > >Michael Donnelly head white male born Sept 1854 - 45 years single - >brickmaker b1855 Pennsylvania >Mary Donnelly sister white female born Aug 1857 - 52 years (age out of >sync >here) - single - arsenal b 1848 Pennsylvania > >The first question - my Michael, according to a newspaper article, worked >for the Knickerbocker Ice Company - could his occupation shown on the >census of >'brickmaker' belong to this industry. > > >Secondly - Mary states for her occupation 'Arsenal' - would anyone know to >what this referred. > > > > >Eileen > > > > > > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Arsenal: probably the Frankford Arsenal, although there was an arsenal downtown at one time.. My father worked in an ice house when he was young. There were many occupations in an ice house. However, you state a "newspaper article": What year, what type of article? You state a census: what year? He could have changed jobs. Gene Stackhouse A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. Not Bad >From: EileenCrook@aol.com >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Meanings of occupations >Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:31:02 EDT > >Dear readers > >Amongst other Donnelly's, I am searching at the moment for Michael and a >sister Mary. So far the following census return seems to be the closest I >have >found so far but I have my doubts as the sister in question here is >unmarried >whereas my Mary's surname should have been Doyle. There are 2 questions >that I would like to ask if you will all bear with me. > >1910 census > >143 - 24th street, Philadelphia > >Michael Donnelly head white male born Sept 1854 - 45 years single - >brickmaker b1855 Pennsylvania >Mary Donnelly sister white female born Aug 1857 - 52 years (age out of >sync >here) - single - arsenal b 1848 Pennsylvania > >The first question - my Michael, according to a newspaper article, worked >for the Knickerbocker Ice Company - could his occupation shown on the >census of >'brickmaker' belong to this industry. > > >Secondly - Mary states for her occupation 'Arsenal' - would anyone know to >what this referred. > > > > >Eileen > > > > > > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear readers Amongst other Donnelly's, I am searching at the moment for Michael and a sister Mary. So far the following census return seems to be the closest I have found so far but I have my doubts as the sister in question here is unmarried whereas my Mary's surname should have been Doyle. There are 2 questions that I would like to ask if you will all bear with me. 1910 census 143 - 24th street, Philadelphia Michael Donnelly head white male born Sept 1854 - 45 years single - brickmaker b1855 Pennsylvania Mary Donnelly sister white female born Aug 1857 - 52 years (age out of sync here) - single - arsenal b 1848 Pennsylvania The first question - my Michael, according to a newspaper article, worked for the Knickerbocker Ice Company - could his occupation shown on the census of 'brickmaker' belong to this industry. Secondly - Mary states for her occupation 'Arsenal' - would anyone know to what this referred. Eileen

Ah! That's life... Thank you for trying, Pat. Vince On 5/16/07, psingersoll@verizon.net <psingersoll@verizon.net> wrote: > Not in Genealogy Bank. > > Pat Ingersoll > > > > > > ===================== > From: "Vincent E. Summers" <vsummers@gmail.com> > Date: 2007/05/15 Tue PM 03:43:53 CDT > To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Phly-Rts] Charles Cooper HICKS died 1880 - 1884 > > Folks, > > Is there an online obituary or mortuary notice for Charles > Cooper HICKS who died 1880-1884? > > Thanks, > Vince > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Not in Genealogy Bank. Pat Ingersoll ===================== From: "Vincent E. Summers" <vsummers@gmail.com> Date: 2007/05/15 Tue PM 03:43:53 CDT To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] Charles Cooper HICKS died 1880 - 1884 Folks, Is there an online obituary or mortuary notice for Charles Cooper HICKS who died 1880-1884? Thanks, Vince ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Folks, I have a Charles Cooper HICKS Jr, born 1854. Now I found a book online that says a Charles C HICKS Jr was a valedictorian at Central Highschool in Philadelphia, on February 12, 1885. Is there any way this could be one and the same guy? He would have had to have been 31! Would this not be extremely unusual? Thanks, Vince

Folks, Is there an online obituary or mortuary notice for Charles Cooper HICKS who died 1880-1884? Thanks, Vince

The playground that replaced it is a dreary, ugly place. Ronaldson's Cemetery This cemetery was incorporated as the Philadelphia Cemetery Company. It was located at Shippen (now Bainbridge), 9th and Fitzwater St. It was established by a deed of trust from James Ronaldson, 1827. Photographed in the collection of the City History Society of Phila. Article in The Phila. Bulletin (not dated, found at Genealogical Soc. of Pa.) Old Cemetery in South Phila. Soon to Be a City Playground by Joseph T. Reichwein The last chapter is about to be written in the history of Ronaldson Cemetery, an old Philadelphia landmark. Today workmen began converting the 123- year-old burial ground bounded by Bainbridge and Fitzwater sts. in the block between 8th and 9th, into a city playground. Thus will end a riches-to-rags existence for the cemetery, which was once considered the most beautiful in the country, but which, for the last 25 years has been a neglected eyesore-a dumping ground for neighborhood junk. 13,500 to be Reburied First step in the conversion will be the disinterment and reburial of some 13,500 dead. Included are the bodies of Revolutionary War heroes and stars of the early stage. The bodies of six patriots and the stones that mark their graves will be transferred to the burial ground behind Old Swedes Church, Swanson and Christian sts. The area is now a national shrine. The other dead will be reburied in a section of Forest Hills Cemetery, Somerton. Their graves will be marked by bronze tablets and the crumbling old tombstones in Ronaldson's will be destroyed. Ronaldson's Cemetery was founded in 1827 by James Ronaldson, who came to this city from Scotland and established a type foundry. Ronaldson founded the burial grounds because there was no place but Potter's Field in which to bury persons who belonged to no religious congregation. Many Actors There Ronaldson's is listed in some old records as "the actor's cemetery," because so many theatrical people are buried there. Most actors, in those days, couldn't be placed in church cemeteries, so their friends purchased space in Ronaldson's. The main entrance was on Bainbridge St. A wide avenue ran back to Fitzwater st., and many gravel walks cut through the plot. The whole place was beautifully landscaped. Flowers bloomed everywhere. There are little buildings on each side of the massive iron gate. The founder designed one to be the residence of the caretaker. The other served as the "bell house." In it, persons who died unexpectedly were placed for three days. A string attached to a bell was placed in their hands so that if there was a move of returning life the bell would ring and arouse the caretaker Mrs. Karl Boesenhofer, whose Father used to be caretaker, still lives in the tiny residence. The bell house has fallen into disrepair. Both buildings will be torn down. Funds Inadequate Ronaldson saved a portion of the space at the front of the plot for his family and sold the rest. In 1833, the lot-holders were Incorporated as the Philadelphia Cemetery Company. Many of the Revolutionary War soldiers buried there were transferred from an old burial ground behind Independence Hall. As the lot-holders died and the shape of the city changed, interest in the old cemetery declined. The caretaker remained, but funds to keep the place in condition were inadequate. According to the records, the last persons buried there were several influenza victims in 1918. Today Ronaldson is littered with tin cans, pop bottles and trash of all sorts. The paths and graves are weed-covered. Many of the high monuments and markers are crumbled. As far back as 1922 it was proposed that the city take over the land, Finally, in 1946, after a long series of discussions and court proceedings, the city and the cemetery company reached their agreement. The city will foot the bill for the removal and reburial of the bodies. The work will be done under the direction of Thomas A. Morris, president of the Evergreen Memorial Park Assn. Rector Makes Search Dr. John Craig Ronk, rector of Old Swedes Church, when he learned of the proposed move, made a search of the cemetery and located, through still legible stones, the graves of six old soldiers. They include General William Irvine, who died in 1804 after serving in the Revolution and also as a delegate to the Continental Congress: Captain William Moore, who died at the age of 86: Captain Abraham Parsons, who according to his tombstone, "served all through the Revolution and was for a time a prisoner of the British." Captain Wm. McFadden, a native of Dublin, Ireland, who died here in 1839, and Captain John Barber,who served in the war of 1812. Dr. Ronk has set aside a corner of Old Swedes Cemetery for their new graves. Morris said the big stone over the grave of Ronaldson, still in fairly good shape, will be placed in Forest Hills as the hub of the new cemetery. a history & interesting ancedotes about Ronaldson's Cemetery can be found in "Men and Things column" of the Phila. Bulletin, July 22, 1891, a copy of which is in Ashmead's Newspaper Cutting, vol. 4, pp. 137-139 >From Genealogies of Pa. Families by Broderbund Software Inc., Banner Blue Div. James Ronaldson, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, the first president of The Franklin Instit. 1824-1841, vice-president of the St. Andrew's Soc. 1829-1830, and owned and laid out Ronaldson's Cemetery. It was a burial ground for the interment of his friend's and deceased human beings other than person's of color.

Lafayette Cemetery : Non-sectarian cemetery at 10th & Federal Streets, Philadelphia. [Do not confuse the name "Lafayette" with the section of land owned by Brith Achim in the MT LEBANON CEMETERY on Lafayette Avenue and Bartram Road]. Based on a telephone interview with Jack Livezy, owner of King David Memorial Park, a clerk at the Rosedale Memorial Park and a librarian at the Levittown Currier Times : The Lafayette Cemetery moved all of its remains to a cemetery in Trevose, Bucks County called Evergreen Memorial Park. Evergreen split into two separate cemeteries. King David Memorial Park is Jewish while Rosedale Memorial Park is non-sectarian. Rosedale is listed in the classified yellow pages as Trevose Road and Oakford Rd (Oakford Rd is off Richlieu Road) in Ben Salem, (215) 357 0308. Adjacent to Rosedale Memorial Park is an independent section called Lafayette, which represents the remains that were removed from the original Lafayette Cemetery in downtown Philadelphia. The clerk mentioned that access to Lafayette is through a Board of Directors. The Historical Society of Philadelphia has records for Lafayette Cemetery, listed in the unpublished card catalog under "Cemetery-Lafayette," [Ph/45A:1-5]. HSP! also h as author, Edwin S. Dunkerly (7, p175) who addresses Lafayette. Articles: Jack Livezy referred to Adam Bell as the reporter who did a series of articles on the Lafayette Cemetery for the Levittown, Pennsylvania Currier Times newspaper, (215) 949-4000. The private library collection of the Currier Times is on microfilm at Bucks County Community College Library, Newtown PA; and at the Grundy Free Public Library in Bristol on Radcliffe Street near the Delaware River. In 1988, no fewer than 27 articles were written on Lafayette, with more in 1990 and 1991. One article read that "47,000 bodies were abandoned in 1946 from the 107 year-old cemetery, which was originally located at 10th & Wharton Streets, Philadelphia County, until Sept 12, 1946." The librarian at Currier Times is Susan Ditterline. Other newspapers picked up on the story: The Philadelphia Bulletin , and The Philadelphia Inquirer .