Philadelphia Gentlemen by E. Digby Baltzell

Author:E. Digby Baltzell [Baltzell, E. Digby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412830751
Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Notes

1.Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and Roderick D. McKenzie, The City, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1925), p. 3.

2.James H. S. Bossard, The Sociology of Child Development, (New York: Harper & Bros., 1948), p. 525.

3.His residence, 944 North Front Street, was listed in McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory for 1859, (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1859), p. 174.

4.See Boyd’s Blue Book, The Ladies Visiting and Shopping Guide, for the year ending April, 1890, (Philadelphia, C. E. Howe Co., 1890).

5.See six conjugal Disston family units listed in the 1940 Social Register.

6.J. Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884), Vol. 1, pp. 72–76.

7.Robert Desilver, The Philadelphia Index or Directory for 1823, containing the Names, Professions, and Residence, of all the Heads of Families and Persons in Business of the City and Suburbs, with other useful information, (Philadelphia, 1823).

8.See Boyd’s Blue Book for 1890.

9.See 1940 Social Register.

10.Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen, Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin, (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942), p. 222.

11.Scharf and Westcott, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 1180.

12.John Frederick Lewis, The History of an Old Philadelphia Land Title, 208 South Fourth Street, (Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1934), pp. 202–203.

13.Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, (Boston: Little, Brown, Company, 1920), pp. 44–46.

14.Carl and Jessica Bridenbaugh, op. cit., p. 222.

15.Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley, op. cit., pp. 75–76.

16.The Drexel firm was then located at 34 South 3rd Street while E. W. Clark & Co., and young Jay Cooke were across the street at 35 South 3rd; see McElroy’s Philadelphia Directory, A Business Directory, (Philadelphia: Edward C. and John Biddle, 1859).

17.See A New Home for an Old House, (Philadelphia: Drexel & Co., privately printed, 1927). An attractively illustrated brief history of this famous old Philadelphia banking house.

18.Theo. B. White, Editor, Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Centurv, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), p. 9.

19.See Charles J. Cohen, Ritten-house Square, (Privately Printed, 1922).

20.The fascinating career of Joseph Harrison, Jr. was pieced together from: Scharf and Westcott, op. cit., Vol. Ill, pp. 2258–2259; Charles J. Cohen, op. cit., pp. 259–266; and Joseph Harrison, Jr., The Iron Worker and King Solomon, with a Memoir and an Appendix, (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1868).

21.George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia Lawyer, (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1944), p. 17.

22.Two hundred and twenty-three families were listed in Boyd’s Blue Book (1890) as living on Walnut Street between Broad Street and the Schuylkill River (The Rittenhouse Square blocks). At the same time, only 126 families were listed in Boyd’s as living in Bryn Mawr.

23.See A New Home for an Old House, op. cit.

24.Philadelphia Record, February 11, 1933.

25.See Ray Allen Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800–1860, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938), and Scharf and Westcott, op. cit., Vol I, pp. 663–664.

26.Scharf and Westcott, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 666–667.

27.Ibid.

28.William C. Bullitt, It’s Not Done, (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926).

29.Ibid, p. 7.

30.Ibid., pp. 305–308.

31.Boyd’s Blue Book, op. cit., pp. 181–183.

32.See Theodore Dreiser, The Financier, (New York: John Day Company, 1912).

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