1 10 2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text Matilda Toy operated a boarding house during 1887 at 37 Cooper Street, where she lived with her husband, Jacob, an electrician. Their boarders included Bowman Shivers, sergeant-at-arms office (doorkeeper) for the United States Senate; John Willits, a laborer; Amos Homan, a cigar dealer; and Matilda's brother Harry Lounsberry, a tinsmith. Matilda Toy subsequently operated boarding houses at other addresses in the vicinity of the Camden waterfront. Following the death of Jacob Toy c. 1895, Matilda met her second husband, widowed railroad foreman William P. Lewis, when he lived as a boarder in her home at 422 Stevens Street. They married in 1904. Time period on Cooper Street 1887 Location(s) - Cooper Street 37 Cooper Street Location(s) - Other 309 Market Street (operated boarding house, 1888) 403 Arch Street (operated boarding house, 1891) 422 Stevens Street (operated boarding house from at least 1895 until at least 1900) Birth Date January 1849 Birthplace New Jersey Associated Individuals Jacob Toy (first husband, d. by 1895) Harry T. L. Toy (son), b. February 1872, a paper hanger in 1900 Vera H. Toy (daughter), b. November 1883 Bowman H. Shivers (boarder) John Willits (boarder) Amos Homan (boarder) Harry Lounsberry (brother and boarder) Charles B. Lounsberry (brother, Elizabeth NJ in 1912) Alfretta Lounsberry (sister, in Camden in 1912) Arilia L. Phillips (sister, in St. Paul in 1912) William P. Lewis (second husband, married in 1904) Occupation Boarding house operator Death Date March 8, 1911 Research by Charlene Mires Sources Camden City Directories (Ancestry.com) New Jersey Marriage Index (Ancestry.com) Obituary for Matilda Lounsberry, Monmouth Democrat, March 14, 1912 (Newspapers.com) U.S. Census (Ancestry.com) Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Toy, Matilda Description An account of the resource Matilda Toy is an example of an itinerant boarding house operator, moving to different rented houses from year to year. 00 Block 37 Cooper Street Adult Boarding House Operator Female Widows Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Name Amos Homan Time period on Cooper Street c. 1887-c. 1906 Location(s) - Cooper Street 37 Cooper Street Location(s) - Other Harrison, Gloucester, N.J., 1860 and 1870 Census Mickle Street, Camden, c. 1884 122 N. Second Street, Camden, 1906 Occupation Cigar dealer Previously a laborer, teamster, and porter Biographical Text Amos Homan sold cigars at 37 Cooper Street, a corner row house with a store on the first floor and rented rooms above. He lived at the same address, beginning as a boarder by 1887 but owning the property (mortgaged) by 1900. He also was among the local incorporators of the J.A. Delmar Coal Company in 1903. Homan was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a private in Company H, New Jersey 12th Infantry Regiment, from September 4, 1862, until December 15, 1863, when he was transferred to a reserve unit due to unspecified poor health. While living in Camden, he was a member of the United Methodist Church on Third Street. Church records listed him as "widowed," although no records document his marriage and Census records list him as single. Birth Date 1840 Birthplace New Jersey Death Date Unknown, between 1906 and 1910. Buried with an undated veteran's headstone in Arlingon Memorial Park, Kearney, Hudson County, N.J. Bibliography Research by Charlene Mires Lucy Davis Associated Individuals Matilda Toy (operator of boarding house at 37 Cooper Street, 1887) Sources Camden City Directories (Ancestry.com) Civil War Veterans Records (Ancestry.com) "Incorporated To-day," Camden Courier Post, June 29, 1903 (Newspapers.com) New Jersey State Census, 1905 (Ancestry.com) Sanborn Insurance Maps, 1885, 1891 (Princeton University) United Methodist Church Records (Ancestry.com) U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1900 (Ancestry.com) Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Homan, Amos C. Description An account of the resource A Civil War veteran, Amos Homan operated a cigar stand at 37 Cooper Street and eventually bought the building. 00 Block 1880s 1890s 1900s 37 Cooper Street Adult Boarder/Lodger Cigars Civil War Coal Male Retail United Methodist Church Widowers