Richard Porter-[64]

  General Notes:

believed to have immigrated to US 1865

1865:
1866:
1867:
1868:
1869:
1870: Census, Richard, 29, Margaret, 29, both born Ireland. Son John, 1 y/o born Delaware. no address listed (Ward 20, District 62, sheet 67 stamped, 1st enum)
1871: no listing city directory
1872: no listing city directory
1873: no listing city directory
1874: first appearance of a Richard Porter in city directory, machinist, 727 Dauphin. Not sure "ours"
1875: no listing
1876: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1877: only Richard listed is Richard G., 1709 Columbia Av
1878: Richard, hostler, h. 5 Reimer's Av
1879: no listing
1880: Census has them at 5 Poplar Ct. (s. side Poplar, betw. 11th & 12th)
Richard, 33, laborer b. Ireland (E.D. 245, page 8)
Margaret, 33, keeping house b. Ireland
John, 12 b. Phila (differs with 1870, 1900, and 1910 census which say Delaware)
Jennie, 8, b. Phila
Annie, 5. b. Phila
Mamie, 1 b. Phila
1881: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar (may have been apt. or rooming house)
1882: Richard, hostler, 5 Reimer's Av
1883: Richard, hostler, 5 Reimer's Av
1884: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1885: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1886: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1887: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1888: no other listing for a Richard except a cook, at 2827 William
1889: Richard, hostler, 1210 Poplar
1890: Richard, coachman, 1249 Fleetwood
1891: Richard, laborer, 1249 Fleetwood
1892: Richard, driver, 1249 Fleetwood
1893: Richard, coachman, 1249 Fleetwood
1894: Richard, driver,1249 Fleetwood
1895: Richard, coachman, 1249 Fleetwood (also there Richard Geier, artist)
1896: Richard, laborer, 1249 Fleetwood (no Richard)
1897: Richard, coachman, 1249 Fleetwood (also Charles. H Geier, lithographer)
1899: Richard, coachman, 1249 N. Jessup (Geier at 1255 N. Jessup
(fleetwood was changed to Jessup in 1897)
1900: richard, driver, 918 N. Alder (Geier at 1251 N. Jessup)
1900 census, prob. taken later in year, shows Porter with Geier at 1427 Camac
occupation given as "Hostler" in 1900 census
listed as not naturalized in 1900 census,
living with daughter Annie and her husband Charles and their sons, along with son John, John's wife Fannie and their childern at 1427 Camac Street in Phila.
notably absent is Richard's wife, presumed dead by then
1901: No list for Richard, but was in Census with Charles H. Geier and family at 1427 Camac. City dir,. lists Charles H. Geier at 1427 N. Camac, as expected.
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1907:
Died December 1907

Greenmount Cemetery Records:
Porter, Richard, 1242 Harper St., died of Gastritis, buried Dec. 1907, Section SJ, lot 3348, undertaker Mack or Mark

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration, 1865, Ireland. not naturalized as of 1900 census

Richard married Margaret Thornton-[65] [MRIN:19] on 11 Apr 1866 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, St. Patrick's Rc Church, 20Th & Locust. (Margaret Thornton-[65] was born in 1841 in Ireland and died in 1887-1900 in Not In 1900 Census.)