Canton City Directory 1903: the Stokey entries
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A search of the 1903 Canton City Directory, yielding Mama Margaret, Fred, and also three other Stokeys
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This isn't the prettiest doc on this website, but I don't know how to get rid of the highlighting and still stay where I want to be in the book. And anyway, maybe the highlighting is helpful.
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Here are the Stokey listings:
From the search result #1, page 45:
908 Stokey Mrs M P
From search result #2, page 64, for McKinley Av South:
1100 Stokey JH
From search result #3, page 556:
Stokey Fred E, wks Dueber Co, res. 908 W Eighth
Stokey Harry, wks L B Hartung, res 1100 S McKinley ave
Stokey Ida, teacher, res 1100 S McKinley ave
STOKEY JOHN H [Mary A], mgr Freedom Oil Works Co, res 1100 S McKinley ave, Stark Phone 1644
From the search result #1, page 45:
908 Stokey Mrs M P
From search result #2, page 64, for McKinley Av South:
1100 Stokey JH
From search result #3, page 556:
Stokey Fred E, wks Dueber Co, res. 908 W Eighth
Stokey Harry, wks L B Hartung, res 1100 S McKinley ave
Stokey Ida, teacher, res 1100 S McKinley ave
STOKEY JOHN H [Mary A], mgr Freedom Oil Works Co, res 1100 S McKinley ave, Stark Phone 1644
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1.
908 Stokey Mrs M P
This must be West 8th Street, but the search result doesn't give the top of the page. This seems to be the section in which the head of the household is listed.
2.
Stokey Fred E, wks Dueber Co, res. 908 W Eighth
So nice to get confirmation that Dueber was where Fred worked. Wikipedia says:
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. Pocket watch sales declined after World War I, and the business closed in 1927. Then in 1930 the factory was sold and moved to Soviet Russia.
Moved to Soviet Russia? Lock, stock, and barrel?
Dueber gets a mention in:The factory closed yesterday for a weeks vacation. Fred and Arthur Clarke are going up to Turkey Foot Lake.
3.
Stokey Harry, wks L B Hartung, res 1100 S McKinley ave
Stokey Ida, teacher, res 1100 S McKinley ave
STOKEY JOHN H [Mary A], mgr Freedom Oil Works Co, res 1100 S McKinley ave, Stark Phone 1644
Barbara's genealogy has these people, of course. John Henry Stokey 1847-1926 was a younger brother of Papa Charles. On May 20, 1875 he married Mary Ann Uth 1855-1934. They had many children, including Ida 1880-1967 (apparently never married) and Harry 1882-1952 (still single at this time).
So there we have two apparently respectable young people, Ida and Harry, first cousins of The Five Stokey Siblings, right in the middle of the age group of The Five Stokey Siblings, and Ida a teacher like Alma and Laura (because I believe Laura taught before becoming an osteopath). And yet we never hear about them in the letters - either about The Five contacting Ida and Harry or else about Ida and Harry contacting them. As I thought about this, I wondered: Did Papa Charles's siblings think that he had married beneath him? I doubt that I'll ever know.
Later: I mentioned this page to AG, and she said that Alma had mentioned Ida. Alma and Ida were pretty close in age, and played together as children.
4.
What about the rest of our Stokeys? Papa Charles was living near Freeburg, which is near Canton, in 1901 - see:Will was in the Army and Alma was attending college in Oberlin. I think Laura left Canton to go work in St. Lous in 1903, so it may be that at the time that they were collecting information for the directory, she wasn't working. And Eva graduated from high school in 1903, and wasn't working.
There are some brothers of Papa Charles's mentioned as living in Canton in an obituary from July of this year for sister of Papa Charles, but we've got only John Henry Stokey here.
Later: I happened to revisit this in Google Books, and found in the search results something that wasn't in the view of the actual book, since one couldn't see the whole book. Sort of odd, but here's what there was:
Stokey Laura E , nurse Aultman Hospital , res 908 W Eighth Stokey Mrs Margaret P , res 908 W Eighth Stokey Nettie , clerk , res 1100 S McKinley ave Stokey William P , in US Army , res 908 W Eighth
So that gives us Laura as a nurse, and also Will, who was assigned to the Philippines in 1903. I guess they still thought of Canton as Will's home address.
We've got Laura as a visiting nurse on probation with Deaconess in St. Louis in 1907, which seems odd - more on that here:
908 Stokey Mrs M P
This must be West 8th Street, but the search result doesn't give the top of the page. This seems to be the section in which the head of the household is listed.
2.
Stokey Fred E, wks Dueber Co, res. 908 W Eighth
So nice to get confirmation that Dueber was where Fred worked. Wikipedia says:
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. In 1888 the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from 1864 bought the Hampden Watch Company of New York, in operation since 1877. Dueber moved them both to Canton, Ohio, where Hampden used the Dueber cases until the companies merged in 1923. Pocket watch sales declined after World War I, and the business closed in 1927. Then in 1930 the factory was sold and moved to Soviet Russia.
Moved to Soviet Russia? Lock, stock, and barrel?
Dueber gets a mention in:The factory closed yesterday for a weeks vacation. Fred and Arthur Clarke are going up to Turkey Foot Lake.
3.
Stokey Harry, wks L B Hartung, res 1100 S McKinley ave
Stokey Ida, teacher, res 1100 S McKinley ave
STOKEY JOHN H [Mary A], mgr Freedom Oil Works Co, res 1100 S McKinley ave, Stark Phone 1644
Barbara's genealogy has these people, of course. John Henry Stokey 1847-1926 was a younger brother of Papa Charles. On May 20, 1875 he married Mary Ann Uth 1855-1934. They had many children, including Ida 1880-1967 (apparently never married) and Harry 1882-1952 (still single at this time).
So there we have two apparently respectable young people, Ida and Harry, first cousins of The Five Stokey Siblings, right in the middle of the age group of The Five Stokey Siblings, and Ida a teacher like Alma and Laura (because I believe Laura taught before becoming an osteopath). And yet we never hear about them in the letters - either about The Five contacting Ida and Harry or else about Ida and Harry contacting them. As I thought about this, I wondered: Did Papa Charles's siblings think that he had married beneath him? I doubt that I'll ever know.
Later: I mentioned this page to AG, and she said that Alma had mentioned Ida. Alma and Ida were pretty close in age, and played together as children.
4.
What about the rest of our Stokeys? Papa Charles was living near Freeburg, which is near Canton, in 1901 - see:Will was in the Army and Alma was attending college in Oberlin. I think Laura left Canton to go work in St. Lous in 1903, so it may be that at the time that they were collecting information for the directory, she wasn't working. And Eva graduated from high school in 1903, and wasn't working.
There are some brothers of Papa Charles's mentioned as living in Canton in an obituary from July of this year for sister of Papa Charles, but we've got only John Henry Stokey here.
Later: I happened to revisit this in Google Books, and found in the search results something that wasn't in the view of the actual book, since one couldn't see the whole book. Sort of odd, but here's what there was:
Stokey Laura E , nurse Aultman Hospital , res 908 W Eighth Stokey Mrs Margaret P , res 908 W Eighth Stokey Nettie , clerk , res 1100 S McKinley ave Stokey William P , in US Army , res 908 W Eighth
So that gives us Laura as a nurse, and also Will, who was assigned to the Philippines in 1903. I guess they still thought of Canton as Will's home address.
We've got Laura as a visiting nurse on probation with Deaconess in St. Louis in 1907, which seems odd - more on that here:
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- WILL: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- FRED: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- LAURA: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
- MAMA MARGARET: DOCUMENTS ----- Related
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