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Expansion of the Victor Talking Machine Company spelled the end for a block of houses on Cooper Street between Front Street and Delaware Avenue.

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In the wake of the Civil War, a young widow contracted for a new house to be built at 228 Cooper Street.

A member of the prominent Browning family, after the death of her husband Jerusha Browning took in boarders at 415 Cooper Street.

Margaret Chambers, a boarding house operator and entrepreneur, was a fixture at 59 Cooper Street for two decades beginning in 1893.

Mary A. Paulson, a widow, generated income to support her family by renting out one Cooper Street house while living in another house next door.

Matilda Toy is an example of an itinerant boarding house operator, moving to different rented houses from year to year.
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