House built: Before 1905
Plat Block: ?
Plat Lot: ?
1910 Address: 6817 10th Av Northeast
Current address: 68th and Roosevelt Way – house demolished, site now part of the Calvary Christian Assembly parking lot.
Delia Delight Dorrance was born in Pavilion Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan in 1849 to Alfred, a farmer, and Lucinda (Stone) Dorrance. By the 1870 census, she, her older sister Mary, and her younger sister Esther were all schoolteachers. By 1880, she had left the family home and was teaching in Freesoil, Mason County, Michigan.
John Sylvester Pinney was born in Allegan County, Michigan, in 1864. The 1870 census finds a John Pinney, age 6, living with a family named Giligan. Because this census doesn’t ask for the relation of each person enumerated, it’s impossible to tell if he is a nephew, a boarder, or anything else that might help confirm his identity.
Delia and John met when Delia was “a bookkeeper in a Middle West office of the American Press Association”1. They were married on 3 August, 1885, in Delia’s home of Pavilion. Delia was 36. John was 21.
Their only child, Albert Dorrance Pinney, was born on 3 October, 1892, in St. Paul, MN, where John was manager of the American Press Association. At one time he also served as Secretary of both the Commercial Club and the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment association in St. Paul.
The family traveled extensively via John’s work, relocating at different times to Chicago, Boston, Omaha, St. Paul, Columbus and New York. The 1900 census shows the family living in Portland, OR. By 1906, they are in Seattle, and John is the local manager of the Seattle office of the American Type Founders Company.
In May of 1911, John sued Delia for divorce. He claimed in his suit that after Albert’s birth Delia “became morose and quarrelsome.”2 Delia, he claimed, “had been harassing him in his office, and that she had spoken to his employers of their domestic troubles. He had to move from place to place, from New York to Seattle, on that account.”3 When they moved to Seattle, said John, she even hired a janitor in the hotel where they were staying to watch John’s movements.4
Delia, who requested separate maintenance but did not want a divorce, responded that John had “…been trying for two years to get rid of her in his desire to associate with younger people.”5 “…their family life had been pleasant until recently, when her husband began to feel that she was too old.”6
That Delia suffered a measure of stress on account of their age difference seems plausible after glancing at the 1900 and 1910 census records. In 1900 we see a mistake: John’s birth year is shown as 1865 (it was 1864), Delia’s as 1860 (it was 1849). In the 1910 census, the age gap is shortened further: John is listed as 48 years old (he was 46), Delia as 51 (she was 61).
The judge refused John’s request for divorce and awarded Delia $12 per week as separate maintenance. Yet he eventually did obtain a divorce. By 1917, he and his second wife, Victoria, were living in San Francisco.
Life after John appears to have been a busy one for Delia. The 1915 and 1916 directories list her as a Manufacturers’ Agent, an obscurity made clear in an item in the July 24, 1916 issue of The Seattle Star: “Mrs. Delia Delight Pinney … a 67-year-old school girl at the University of Washington, sells stockings and underwear to the women students to pay her way thru school.”
Delia is shown in the house at 6817 10th Av Northeast in the 1920 census (with Albert) and the 1930 census (alone). She became involved in the local literary scene, founding the Seattle Chapter of the League of Western Writers, serving as secretary of the Seattle Verse Writers’ club, and being a member of the Seattle Poetry Club. She read her poetry at club meetings, wrote (but apparently did not publish) a book of children’s poetry in 1931, and was included in Washington Poets, an anthology of 59 contemporary state poets, published in 1932 by Henry Harrison, New York.
By February of 1939 she had moved to 2319 E. Madison on Capitol Hill. There, she wrote to the “Strolling Around The Town” column of The Seattle Times, of her “ambition to have a school organized for people who are more that 70 years old…” “Thus people, when old, would have something to look forward to and forget to worry about the end of life. And should one going out not have as cheerful thoughts as possible?”7
The 1940 census lists Delia as a “patient” at 2432 Harvard, a small convalescent home operated by Christie A. MacLean. She died there on 3 May, 1941, age 93.
The publication of another local poetry anthology, Evergreen Leaves, occasioned a reception at the Olympic Hotel. Dorothy Pinney, Delia’s granddaughter, read Delia’s contribution in her honor.
1 “Says Wife Nagged For Nineteen Years”, Seattle Sunday Times, May 21, 1911, page 15, column 2↩
2 ibid.↩
3 “Husband Refused Divorce, Seattle Star, November 8, 1911
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4 “Says Wife Nagged For Nineteen Years”↩
5 “Says Husband Wants to Get Rid of Her”, Seattle Daily Times, Tuesday Evening, May 23, 1911↩
6 “Says Wife Nagged For Nineteen Years”↩
7 “Strolling Around the Town”, Seattle Daily Times, February 6, 1939, page 13, column 2↩
Discovering the people of Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood in the 1910 Census
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Thursday, August 7, 2014
" ... to face the world without a mother's love." - Rice Alva, Vera Grace, and Geraldine Elizabeth Howell
House built: ?
Woodlawn Add to Green Lake N 35 FT
Plat Block: 61
Plat Lot: 7-8
1910 address: 6509 10th Ave NE
Current address: 6509 Roosevelt Way NE
Vera Grace Glazier was born in Michigan in 1884 to Henrietta (Geddes) Glazier and Frank Porter Glazier. Frank served one term as Michigan state senator and two terms as Michigan state treasurer. In 1907 he went bankrupt, and in 1908 he was indicted on 3 counts of embezzlement.
Rice Alva Howell was born in 1884, also in Michigan, to Lucy (Mapes) Howell and Floyd P. Howell. Floyd was a farmer.
Rice married Vera in Wenatchee on June 16, 1909. Vera's brother Harold, a fruit farmer, served as witness to the marriage. It's intriguing to wonder ... had Rice and Vera known each other in Michigan? Did Rice move to Seattle with the intention of removing Vera from the turmoil of her father's disgrace?
Rice worked as a floor man (per the 1910 Seattle Directory) or executive (per the 1910 Census) at the MacDougall & Southwick department store at 2nd and Pine. The young couple lived at 6509 10th Avenue NE (now Roosevelt Way - the house long demolished, the site is now home to the Bengal Tiger restaurant).
Vera gave birth to Geraldine Elizabeth on March 9, 1910. Her mother had come from Michigan to attend her. On May 11, Rice, Vera, Mrs. Glazier, and the baby traveled to Wenatchee to stay with Harold.
Vera died on June 30, 1910, at her brother's house. "A happy, lovable baby, three months old, is in the grief-stricken home, destined now to face the world without a mother's love"1.
The Yale Expositor (Yale, MI) printed the following lurid and possibly wholly fictional article on July 8, 1910: Glazier Disgrace Kills Daughter. "After reading a reference to the imprisonment of her father, Frank P. Glazier, former state treasurer, in a newspaper a few days after the birth of her child, Mrs. Rice Howell, of Wenatchee, Wash., formerly Vera Glazier, died of the shock."2 Frank Glazier had been sentenced in February of 1910, but Vera's family, the Expositor explained, had kept the news from her.
Vera's father, sentenced to five to ten years in Jackson prison, only served two. The governor parolled him after Frank developed diabetes.
Rice had returned to Michigan. By the 1920 census, he had remarried, had a 3-month-old daughter, and was living on Colorado Avenue in Highland Park.
Geraldine lived with her grandparents and great-grandmother, also in HIghland Park, on Ford Street, about a mile away from her father.
To read more about Frank Glazier, see Less than immortal: the rise and fall of Frank Porter Glazier of Chelsea, Michigan, by Louis William Doll.
1 "BABY'S MOTHER DIES - Grim Reaper Visits Happy Home Near Lewis and Clark School", The Wenatchee Daily World, June 30, 1910, page 5, column 2↩
2 "Glazier Disgrace Kills Daughter", The Yale Expositor, July 8, 1910, column 5↩
Woodlawn Add to Green Lake N 35 FT
Plat Block: 61
Plat Lot: 7-8
1910 address: 6509 10th Ave NE
Current address: 6509 Roosevelt Way NE
Vera Grace Glazier was born in Michigan in 1884 to Henrietta (Geddes) Glazier and Frank Porter Glazier. Frank served one term as Michigan state senator and two terms as Michigan state treasurer. In 1907 he went bankrupt, and in 1908 he was indicted on 3 counts of embezzlement.
Rice Alva Howell was born in 1884, also in Michigan, to Lucy (Mapes) Howell and Floyd P. Howell. Floyd was a farmer.
Rice married Vera in Wenatchee on June 16, 1909. Vera's brother Harold, a fruit farmer, served as witness to the marriage. It's intriguing to wonder ... had Rice and Vera known each other in Michigan? Did Rice move to Seattle with the intention of removing Vera from the turmoil of her father's disgrace?
Rice worked as a floor man (per the 1910 Seattle Directory) or executive (per the 1910 Census) at the MacDougall & Southwick department store at 2nd and Pine. The young couple lived at 6509 10th Avenue NE (now Roosevelt Way - the house long demolished, the site is now home to the Bengal Tiger restaurant).
Vera gave birth to Geraldine Elizabeth on March 9, 1910. Her mother had come from Michigan to attend her. On May 11, Rice, Vera, Mrs. Glazier, and the baby traveled to Wenatchee to stay with Harold.
Vera died on June 30, 1910, at her brother's house. "A happy, lovable baby, three months old, is in the grief-stricken home, destined now to face the world without a mother's love"1.
The Yale Expositor (Yale, MI) printed the following lurid and possibly wholly fictional article on July 8, 1910: Glazier Disgrace Kills Daughter. "After reading a reference to the imprisonment of her father, Frank P. Glazier, former state treasurer, in a newspaper a few days after the birth of her child, Mrs. Rice Howell, of Wenatchee, Wash., formerly Vera Glazier, died of the shock."2 Frank Glazier had been sentenced in February of 1910, but Vera's family, the Expositor explained, had kept the news from her.
Vera's father, sentenced to five to ten years in Jackson prison, only served two. The governor parolled him after Frank developed diabetes.
Rice had returned to Michigan. By the 1920 census, he had remarried, had a 3-month-old daughter, and was living on Colorado Avenue in Highland Park.
Geraldine lived with her grandparents and great-grandmother, also in HIghland Park, on Ford Street, about a mile away from her father.
To read more about Frank Glazier, see Less than immortal: the rise and fall of Frank Porter Glazier of Chelsea, Michigan, by Louis William Doll.
1 "BABY'S MOTHER DIES - Grim Reaper Visits Happy Home Near Lewis and Clark School", The Wenatchee Daily World, June 30, 1910, page 5, column 2↩
2 "Glazier Disgrace Kills Daughter", The Yale Expositor, July 8, 1910, column 5↩
1407 E. 63rd - Edwin Aid Layton - the Medical Missionary and his Family
House built: 1909
Cowen's University Park
Plat Block: 3
Plat Lot: 5
1910 address: 1407 E 63 St
Current address: 1407 NE 63rd St.
Edwin Aid Layton was born in 1873 in Concord, KY to Perry S. and Mary (Bartholomew) Layton. Perry, who was 64 at the time of Edwin's birth, was a physician. This was the career that Edwin chose for himself.
Jessie L. Trunkey was born in Illinois in 1875 to Jerome H. Trunkey, a coal merchant, and Mary Jane (Dewolf) Trunkey. Edwin and Jessie married in Chicago in 1895. The 1900 census shows the couple living with Jessie's parents in Chicago. Jessie was teaching and Edwin was practicing medicine.
Edwin heard the call to practice medicine in Africa. In late 1901, he and Jessie went to live in Bolengi, near Coquilhatville, in King Leopold II's infamous Congo Free State. There Jessie gave birth to their first child, Evelyn Lita. They remained through 1903.
In 1904, Edwin wrote: "My work as a medical missionary has taken me to all the villages round about and perhaps 100 miles into the interior," where he witnessed "victims of atrocious acts, cruelties, and oppression resulting from forced labor and an unjust taxation; undoubted signs of devastation and depopulation ..."1
"No philanthropic person," he wrote, "can be in Kongo without seeing and speaking of the really ruinous results of the present regime ... under my own observation two villages became wholly extinct."2
In November of 1904, Edwin, Jessie, and baby Evelyn travelled to China. There Jessie gave birth to daughter Mildred and son Clarence. The family remained in China until March of 1908. They returned to Chicago, and Jessie gave birth to Edwin jr.
The 1910 census lists Edwin and Jessie, ages 36 and 35; Evelyn, age 8 (we can hope she became best friends with Bernice Beal next door) , Mildred, age 5, Clarence, age 3, and Edwin jr. 1 year and 3 months. Edwin is renting the house. Arthur D. Trunkey, age 29, and Mary Trunkey, age 25 - Jessie's brother and sister - are living with the family. (Arthur is a underwriter with an insurance company.)
Edwin gave a number of lectures about his life in the Congo Free State. In one article, he is "credited with discovering the first case of the sleeping sickness, or negro lethargy, known to science. He is also said to have established the first schools, destroyed the power of the witch and baptized the first converts among the ten million Bankondo."3 He also lectured on "The Awakening of China".
In 1910, at the first Northwest Chautauqua Assembly, held on Whidbey Island, he shared the bill with "baseball evangelist" Billy Sunday. But most of his lectures seemed to have been quieter affairs at churches, or for the Seattle Business Girls Club (who met at the Good Eats Cafe).
In 1912, Edwin established a practice, Layton Trunkey & Trunkey, at 1422 E. 65th (demolished, and replaced by the original Rising Sun produce stand), and moved the family a block north to 6307 15th Avenue NE. By 1916, the family had relocated to Tacoma.
1 Seymour, Thomas, Memorial concerning conditions in the Independent state of the Kongo ...: praying that Congress investigate existing conditions in the Kongo state, and take steps to ameliorate and correct the evils from which that state is suffering, (Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1904), p. 31↩
2 Ibid., p. 32↩
3 "Dr. Edward A. Layton Plans Lecture Series", The Seattle Daily Times, February 8, 1913, p. 7, column 2↩
Cowen's University Park
Plat Block: 3
Plat Lot: 5
1910 address: 1407 E 63 St
Current address: 1407 NE 63rd St.
Edwin Aid Layton was born in 1873 in Concord, KY to Perry S. and Mary (Bartholomew) Layton. Perry, who was 64 at the time of Edwin's birth, was a physician. This was the career that Edwin chose for himself.
Jessie L. Trunkey was born in Illinois in 1875 to Jerome H. Trunkey, a coal merchant, and Mary Jane (Dewolf) Trunkey. Edwin and Jessie married in Chicago in 1895. The 1900 census shows the couple living with Jessie's parents in Chicago. Jessie was teaching and Edwin was practicing medicine.
Edwin heard the call to practice medicine in Africa. In late 1901, he and Jessie went to live in Bolengi, near Coquilhatville, in King Leopold II's infamous Congo Free State. There Jessie gave birth to their first child, Evelyn Lita. They remained through 1903.
In 1904, Edwin wrote: "My work as a medical missionary has taken me to all the villages round about and perhaps 100 miles into the interior," where he witnessed "victims of atrocious acts, cruelties, and oppression resulting from forced labor and an unjust taxation; undoubted signs of devastation and depopulation ..."1
"No philanthropic person," he wrote, "can be in Kongo without seeing and speaking of the really ruinous results of the present regime ... under my own observation two villages became wholly extinct."2
In November of 1904, Edwin, Jessie, and baby Evelyn travelled to China. There Jessie gave birth to daughter Mildred and son Clarence. The family remained in China until March of 1908. They returned to Chicago, and Jessie gave birth to Edwin jr.
The 1910 census lists Edwin and Jessie, ages 36 and 35; Evelyn, age 8 (we can hope she became best friends with Bernice Beal next door) , Mildred, age 5, Clarence, age 3, and Edwin jr. 1 year and 3 months. Edwin is renting the house. Arthur D. Trunkey, age 29, and Mary Trunkey, age 25 - Jessie's brother and sister - are living with the family. (Arthur is a underwriter with an insurance company.)
Edwin gave a number of lectures about his life in the Congo Free State. In one article, he is "credited with discovering the first case of the sleeping sickness, or negro lethargy, known to science. He is also said to have established the first schools, destroyed the power of the witch and baptized the first converts among the ten million Bankondo."3 He also lectured on "The Awakening of China".
In 1910, at the first Northwest Chautauqua Assembly, held on Whidbey Island, he shared the bill with "baseball evangelist" Billy Sunday. But most of his lectures seemed to have been quieter affairs at churches, or for the Seattle Business Girls Club (who met at the Good Eats Cafe).
In 1912, Edwin established a practice, Layton Trunkey & Trunkey, at 1422 E. 65th (demolished, and replaced by the original Rising Sun produce stand), and moved the family a block north to 6307 15th Avenue NE. By 1916, the family had relocated to Tacoma.
1 Seymour, Thomas, Memorial concerning conditions in the Independent state of the Kongo ...: praying that Congress investigate existing conditions in the Kongo state, and take steps to ameliorate and correct the evils from which that state is suffering, (Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1904), p. 31↩
2 Ibid., p. 32↩
3 "Dr. Edward A. Layton Plans Lecture Series", The Seattle Daily Times, February 8, 1913, p. 7, column 2↩
1411 E. 63rd St. - The Beals: Malcolm, Mattie, Bernice, and Malcolm Jr.
House built: 1909
Cowen's University Park
Plat Block: 3 Plat Lot: 4
1910 address: 1411 E 63 St
Current address: 1411 NE 63rd St.
Malcolm Beal, age 30, was born in Kansas to Canadian-English parents. In 1910 he was employed as a travelling salesman in baking powder (KC Brand, of the Jacques Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL).
At the time of the census, he and Mattie had been married for nine years.
Mattie K. Hall, age 29, was born in Texas. Her father had been born in Indiana, her mother in Ohio.
Malcolm and Mattie were married in Garfield County, Oklahoma on 18 Dec 1901.
They had two children: Bernice, age 9, who was born in Oklahoma, and Malcolm H., age 1, born in Pennsylvania.
When I decided to tackle the project of researching the people in the 1910 census for the neighborhood that would become Roosevelt, I wasn’t sure where to begin. My natural choice would have been the house that my husband Brad and I own. It was certainly there in 1910, according to the Baist Atlas for 1905 (though we and the King County Assessor understood that the house had been built in 1909). But it wasn’t included in the 1910 census.
Maybe it was vacant in April of 1910. Maybe the inhabitants were away on vacation or business. Maybe the census taker had slipped up. Maybe a sheet has been lost. I know not.
For a first entry, the Beals are perhaps a little dry ... which is to say, they didn't make the papers. The public information available about them is limited, as is the public information available for most people in a pre-Internet, pre-overshare world. But they were the first family in Ward 11, Enumeration District 188, visited by Oscar Olson, Enumerator. And so I begin with them.
We know by the birth places of their children that they traveled. We know, by the birth places of Malcolm and Mattie, and those of their parents, that a segment of American society was as transient as our own. We know that they brought the new baby to a new house in a new neighborhood. Seattle's population had nearly doubled between 1890 and 1900. Cowen's boosterism predicted a 1910 population of 500,000 - a number not reached until 1960 - but the population continued to grow nonetheless.
The family was Not From Here, and in that respect, they resembled the majority of their neighbors. Of the 751 people enumerated, only 145 were born in Washington; of those, 115 were 10 years old or younger.
They were white, as was 98% of the enumeration district. They could read and write English. All but two could. Mattie listed "none" as her trade or profession. Only four wives listed other employment. Bernice went to school. Only a handful of children didn't.
The 1910 census was the only one to ask mothers to list the number of children born and the number of children still living. Of the 154 mothers in the enumeration district, 51 had suffered the death of one or more of her children. It's an aspect of early 20th century life that is almost incomprehensible to 21st century American experience.
Mattie's neighbors would have understood her loss, and would not have shunned her in her grief, when Baby Malcolm died in January of the following year.
The family lived in the house until 1919, when they moved to across Lake Washington to Medina.
Cowen's University Park
Plat Block: 3 Plat Lot: 4
1910 address: 1411 E 63 St
Current address: 1411 NE 63rd St.
Malcolm Beal, age 30, was born in Kansas to Canadian-English parents. In 1910 he was employed as a travelling salesman in baking powder (KC Brand, of the Jacques Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL).
At the time of the census, he and Mattie had been married for nine years.
Mattie K. Hall, age 29, was born in Texas. Her father had been born in Indiana, her mother in Ohio.
Malcolm and Mattie were married in Garfield County, Oklahoma on 18 Dec 1901.
They had two children: Bernice, age 9, who was born in Oklahoma, and Malcolm H., age 1, born in Pennsylvania.
When I decided to tackle the project of researching the people in the 1910 census for the neighborhood that would become Roosevelt, I wasn’t sure where to begin. My natural choice would have been the house that my husband Brad and I own. It was certainly there in 1910, according to the Baist Atlas for 1905 (though we and the King County Assessor understood that the house had been built in 1909). But it wasn’t included in the 1910 census.
Maybe it was vacant in April of 1910. Maybe the inhabitants were away on vacation or business. Maybe the census taker had slipped up. Maybe a sheet has been lost. I know not.
For a first entry, the Beals are perhaps a little dry ... which is to say, they didn't make the papers. The public information available about them is limited, as is the public information available for most people in a pre-Internet, pre-overshare world. But they were the first family in Ward 11, Enumeration District 188, visited by Oscar Olson, Enumerator. And so I begin with them.
We know by the birth places of their children that they traveled. We know, by the birth places of Malcolm and Mattie, and those of their parents, that a segment of American society was as transient as our own. We know that they brought the new baby to a new house in a new neighborhood. Seattle's population had nearly doubled between 1890 and 1900. Cowen's boosterism predicted a 1910 population of 500,000 - a number not reached until 1960 - but the population continued to grow nonetheless.
The family was Not From Here, and in that respect, they resembled the majority of their neighbors. Of the 751 people enumerated, only 145 were born in Washington; of those, 115 were 10 years old or younger.
They were white, as was 98% of the enumeration district. They could read and write English. All but two could. Mattie listed "none" as her trade or profession. Only four wives listed other employment. Bernice went to school. Only a handful of children didn't.
The 1910 census was the only one to ask mothers to list the number of children born and the number of children still living. Of the 154 mothers in the enumeration district, 51 had suffered the death of one or more of her children. It's an aspect of early 20th century life that is almost incomprehensible to 21st century American experience.
Mattie's neighbors would have understood her loss, and would not have shunned her in her grief, when Baby Malcolm died in January of the following year.
The family lived in the house until 1919, when they moved to across Lake Washington to Medina.
About this project.
I was born in Bellevue, and grew up on the Renton side of Squak Mountain, where it took a ten-minute drive to get anywhere. However, I spent my early '20's on Capitol Hill, where my first car was Metro and my second, a pair of boots. This skewed my sense of distance. So when I moved to Roosevelt in 1986, I felt as if I'd come to the ends of the earth.
In 1910, as it happens, Roosevelt (which wasn't called Roosevelt yet) was the ends of the earth (or, at least, of Seattle). The 1905 Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Seattle (viewable online through the Seattle Public Library) shows the city bounded by (NE) 85th to the north and 15th (Ave. E.) to the east. The people in the 1910 census were living in a new neighborhood. It was probably as bald of trees as any new suburban development. It needed time to mellow and grow green again. The new houses needed to age. The character needed to set.
At this writing, it's 2014, and Roosevelt is being transmogrified (as it was in the beginning, and again when Interstate 5 cut it off from Green Lake). We've got light rail coming. We've got boosters and new development. Houses that stood in the neighborhood from the beginning will, inevitably, fall. It's a good time to look back and see who first made them into homes.
There are 183 dwellings listed in Enumeration District 188 for the 1910 census. That's a lot of dwellings. I'm limiting my research to that which I can do online, at home, in my pajamas, with a bunny and some knitting close at hand. I will link to more thorough sources of information, when and where I find them.
Because when it comes down to it, I'm not a historian. I'm just awfully nosy.
In 1910, as it happens, Roosevelt (which wasn't called Roosevelt yet) was the ends of the earth (or, at least, of Seattle). The 1905 Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Seattle (viewable online through the Seattle Public Library) shows the city bounded by (NE) 85th to the north and 15th (Ave. E.) to the east. The people in the 1910 census were living in a new neighborhood. It was probably as bald of trees as any new suburban development. It needed time to mellow and grow green again. The new houses needed to age. The character needed to set.
At this writing, it's 2014, and Roosevelt is being transmogrified (as it was in the beginning, and again when Interstate 5 cut it off from Green Lake). We've got light rail coming. We've got boosters and new development. Houses that stood in the neighborhood from the beginning will, inevitably, fall. It's a good time to look back and see who first made them into homes.
There are 183 dwellings listed in Enumeration District 188 for the 1910 census. That's a lot of dwellings. I'm limiting my research to that which I can do online, at home, in my pajamas, with a bunny and some knitting close at hand. I will link to more thorough sources of information, when and where I find them.
Because when it comes down to it, I'm not a historian. I'm just awfully nosy.
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