Re: Philadelphia PA Stoddards
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Re: Philadelphia PA Stoddards
Martin Sohlberg 7/24/09
Walter, I would like to put all the information and sources here so I can possibly help some others. On the left side of the philageohistory.org site, click on city directories. You will find Walter 1856,pg637, 1857,pg680, 1858,pg668,and 1866,pg736. These are electronic index page numbers, you need to look at the top of each page to find the actual directory page number. At this same site, on the left, find and click on Property Maps/Atlases. Scroll through the Search Results to the 1875 City Atlas of Philadelphia, Vol 2,for Wards 21 and 28. Details, on the right, will appear and you want to click on Start veiwing at index map (28th Ward). Above the map you will see,Select page to veiw, click on the down arrow and choose Plate N. Before you begin enlarging you will note railroad tracks which form a rough plus sign on the map. If you track the cross line that runs to the middle of the right hand border and center this before you enlarge you will be in the correct segment of the map. The reddish line is Germantown Avenue and you can see both Walter and Elizabeths land plots above and below the railroad tracks. The Familysearch.org has the 1880 census result with Walter a widower and his 4 additional children not in the 1850 census. Finally the phillyhistory.org has archieved pictures of the city. Click the search key and enter Germantown Ave and Hunting Park Ave. Page one of the results, photo C, shows the Stoddard house, peaked roof on the left, in 1914. Page one, photo L, shows house c. 1960 and photos I,J,and K are various interior veiws of the house c. 1970. All of page 3 and 4 are photos needed to make sure the house was not torn down during the urban renewal of the 1970's. Google maps search of the address, 4126 Germantown Avenue, only gives a good overhead veiw. If you want a snapshot of the house in its' restored beauty I could get one for you. This house is the only really old historic building left in Nicetown. It became important to me as I researched the origin of the Nicetown name in our neighborhood. The house dates to the mid 1700s and some sources say the descendants of the original Mr. Nice owned the building. I am hoping that Elizabeth Keisel Stoddard may be that connecting thread to the Nice family as Walter was born in MA. The Trinity Lutheran Church up in Germantown is directly across the avenue from my favorite thrift shop/treasure store and I will walk through the church burial grounds to see if there are any marked graves for the family there as this is listed on Walter and Oscar's death certificates on Familysearch.org. Hope this info is useful and look forward to hearing from you.Mary
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Re: Philadelphia PA Stoddards
Mary Nicholas 10/10/09