tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post2649718356726777619..comments2024-03-28T23:00:10.654-07:00Comments on Heirlooms Reunited: 1870s Autograph Album of Frank of Providence, Rhode IslandPam Beveridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-22230864546989510752014-03-05T12:20:15.509-08:002014-03-05T12:20:15.509-08:00Wow - I'm in awe, Ed! I've put a note in...Wow - I'm in awe, Ed! I've put a note in the post for readers to scroll down to the comments section. Good news - there's more southern New England albums coming up.Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470217109659177851.post-70426653333510745212014-03-05T11:08:21.623-08:002014-03-05T11:08:21.623-08:00Finally a Rhode Island mystery, and no surname!
I...Finally a Rhode Island mystery, and no surname!<br /><br />I wish Frank's aunt, at least, would have signed her full name. His mother maybe not, but at least his aunt. <br /><br />I wish I knew what those initials after the names stood for. <br /><br />I think your Frank had ties to the Friendship St and Clifford St area of Providence, Ward 6, and might have attended the Friendship Street Baptist Church. Maybe some of the signers were members of the church.<br /><br />Shubael S Parker was the pastor of that church from 1867 to 1878. It was at the corner of Friendship and Prince. He shared a two-family home with the family of one of the signers, Frank J Congdon.<br /><br />Prince St is no longer there but the streets intersected at 310 Friendship, which is still there. The neighborhood seems to have been cut in half by I-95.<br /><br />A lot of the signers lived on Friendship, Clifford or West Clifford. The ones I kept ages for were born about 1860 +/- 5 years. Samuel N Mitchell was an exception. He was born about 1847. He was working in the mail room of the Evening Press in 1875. Maybe he was Frank's mentor.<br /><br />I also think Frank might have been working as a clerk somewhere by 1875. Six of the men that I found were clerks, and most of them lived in that same neighborhood.<br /><br />One of the signers, Minnie Potter, married Isaac Goodchild, the brother of another signer, Clark Goodchild.<br /><br />Rocky Point was an amusement park. Maybe your "Frank" and Rozolvo Clifford Perry, born about 1855 in Greenville, Norwich, Ct, were related or knew each other from working together and met at Rocky Point on an August afternoon, 1874.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />I wish I could figure out how those three women in the 1950's were connected. Virginia Baldiga was in Central Fallls HS in 1956. (Her husband Richard Duprey just died in 2012 in Coventry, RI). There was a Marilyn O'Neill in Providence but she would have attended a different school. I eliminated two of the three Barbara Gilligans that I found, and I didn't find the third in the 1940 Census.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />1875 Census and City Directory<br /><br />Sarah J Peck, 14, 240 Friendship St<br />Ida Pomroy, 16, 255 Friendship St<br />Marian J Pomroy, 14, 255 Friendship St<br />Anson T Rice, silversmith house at 359 Friendship<br />Clark Goodchild, clerk at 374 Friendship, bds 394 Friendship<br />Ella E Maine, 16, with parents at 394 Friendship<br />Shubael S Parker (the minister), house 397 Friendship<br />Frank S Congdon, age 15, reform school, but his family (Wm G Congdon, grocer, shares the two-family house with the minister at 397 Friendship<br /><br />Samuel N Mitchell, 29, 138 Clifford<br />Anson F Bennett, probably boards 182 Clifford<br />Edward C Higgins, student, 13 West Clifford<br /><br />Imogene Truman, abt 19, 61 Hospital St - became a public school teacher<br />William H Bailey, 100 Hospital<br /><br />Minnie F Potter, 15, 89 South St - married Clark Goodchild's brother Isaac<br />Sarah L Walker, age about 18, 154 Pond St<br />Hattie E Cady, maybe at 44 Peace, a bit farther south, Ward 9<br /><br />other clerks:<br />Thomas W Waterman, clerk at 37 Weybossett, lived at 18 Linden<br />William H Wing, clerk at 10 So. Water, bds 29 Greenwich<br />Walter P Simmons, clerk Commercial Natl Bank, boards 1 Prince St <br />Henry F Manchester, clerk for Weybossett Bank, but at 67 Vinton. The only one listed not in the immediate neighborhood.<br /><br />Ed Hamiltonhttp://www.myoldohiohome.comnoreply@blogger.com