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