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22 Winter Street
John Charles Howard
Ship Chandler
And his wife
Priscilla Cheever
Built c. 1850
Researched and written by Connie Barlow
October 2022
Historic Salem Inc.
The Bowditch House
9 North Street
(978) 745-0799 / HistoricSalem.org
©2022
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22 Winter Street, Salem, MA from MACRIS files
�Long before the first English colonists arrived and settled in the area that they called
Salem in 1626, the land was inhabited by indigenous people who called themselves and the
land “Naumkeag.” (See the Perley Map of Indian Lands) The houses that now line Winter Street
sit on that land.
The history of Winter Street can be traced back to 1688 and is listed in the Essex
Antiquarian vol.8, page 66, as follows: “Winter Street was an ancient road. It was called a lane
or highway in 1668; Road leading to Beverly Ferry, 1705; Highway leading from the training
field to Beverly ferry 1760; the way to the ferry, 1769; Road, 1771; Way leading to ferry
lane,1771; the ferry lane leading to Beverly 1779; Ferry Lane, 1780; Ferry lane or the way
leading to Essex bridge; 1793; and Winter street, 1795.” 1
The lot on which this house stands was part of the early homestead of Thomas Watson,
a tailor.2 He conveyed the lot, which included nearly the entire west side of Winter Street, to
Jacob Pudeater, a blacksmith in 1672. 3 After the death of his first wife, Isabel, Jacob Pudeater
married the widow, Ann Greenslatt. Following Jacob’s death in 1682, his estate was left to Ann.
On June 5, 1685, Ann Pudeater sold a portion of the land to William Brown Jr. 4 (See Perley Map
of Salem 1700 in Sources.) Mrs. Pudeator continued to reside in one of the dwellings left to her
by Jacob until the fateful summer of 1692 when she was arrested for “sundry acts of
witchcraft.” Following testimony given against her by neighbors and those “afflicted” by
witchcraft, Ann Pudeator was executed as a witch on September 22, 1692. 5
By around 1780 the land on the west side of Ferry Lane was the site of “Benjamin
Cheever’s Tan Yard,” adjacent to the tan yard of Samuel Cheever. (See Perley Map of About
1780 in Sources). No deed has been located to document the sale of land to either Samuel
Cheever or Benjamin Cheever by William Brown or another entity.
Benjamin Cheever who was born in 1747 in Essex, Massachusetts. He was the Benjamin
Cheever, tanner, whose tan yard was shown on the 1780 map. In 1784 Benjamin married Mary
1
Essex Antiquarian, vol.8, p.66
Joyce King, House History for 24 -1/2 Winter St., HIS Archives, 1982
3
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Index, 31-61
4
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Index, 7-33
5
Boyer and Nissenbaum, The Salem Witchcraft Papers, Vol. III, pp.701-710, 1972
2
�Card in Salem. Benjamin died in Salem in 1832. 6 After the death of his wife Mary in 1842, his
estate was divided into five parts, or “lots,” among his “children and heirs at law.” 7 Lot 4 was
conveyed to Benjamin’s daughter, Mary Cheever, a single woman. Lot 4 had no dwelling or
buildings listed on it. This is the lot on Winter Street where number 22 stands today.
In 1850 Mary Cheever’s brother-in-law John Charles Howard, the husband of her sister
Priscilla, purchased Lot 4 from her “with buildings now in part belonging to said Howard.” Mary
Cheever held the mortgage on the property.8 Whether the “buildings in part” referred to a
residence being built is not clear, but the property did not have a building or dwelling on it at
the time Mary Cheever acquired the land. John Cheever was identified variously in deeds and
documents as a sail maker, ship chandler and merchant.
The current house at 22 Winter Street, shown in the National Register District materials
prepared in 1976, was determined to have been built c. 1850. The style of the house is
transitional with features of the earlier Federal style in its massing and fenestration, threestories, hip roof and five bay, symmetrically arranged facade. However, the application of
decorative exterior details on the façade are indicative of the newer, Italianate style becoming
popular at that time and are consistent with the 1850 date. These details include a modillion
cornice comprised of a series of bracket-like supports; windows with hoods and bracketed sills;
a recessed, semi-circular center entrance featuring side jamb paneling that is mimicked in the
paneling of the front door; and an elaborate oriel window above the front entrance. The siding
of the house was wood of flush boards, the foundation was granite.
Only four years later, in 1854, John Howard sold the property to Oliver P. Ricker, “with
dwelling house and all other buildings thereon standing.” 9 The fact that there was then a
dwelling on the lot in 1854 is supporting evidence for John Howard and his wife having built 22
Winter Street about 1850.
6
Ancestry.com. Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840, Case 5206
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 334-184
8
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 433-244; 433-246
9
Essex County Registry of Deeds 496-147
7
�Captain Ricker, a business partner in Howard’s provisions business, 10 was a somewhat largerthan-life figure for whom a brief biography was provided in his obituary in 1893 in the Salem
News:
“. . .born in Dover N.H. about 74 years ago . . .at the age of twelve he was thrown on the world
to shift for himself. He took to the sea and made a number of voyages to different parts of the
world, Zanziba [sic], China, California, and the Sandwich Islands being among the places he
visited. He sailed for the firm of J. P. Farnham & Co. and Joseph Peabody of Salem. He made a
voyage to California when it was under the Mexican government and was also in Puget Sound
and adjacent places no white man had a residence there in 1835.
For about 15 years he was in the ship brokerage and ship chandlery business in the
Sandwich Islands being part owner of a fleet of vessels trading between the island s and San
Francisco and the northwest coast. He was also interested in the whaling business. While in
business in the islands he made considerable money but most of this was swept away by
unfortunate ventures. He was at one time in the ship chandlery business on Derby Street and
was also connected to William Pickering in the coal and lumber business.
. . . he retired from active sea life nearly 40 years ago.”11
[Having died at age 74 in 1893, Ricker would have been in his 30s when he “retired” from sea
around 1853, just prior to his purchase of the Howards’ Winter Street property in 1854.] The
1874 Salem Atlas shows Ricker as owner of the Winter Street residence. (See map in Sources.)
Captain Ricker sold 22 Winter Street to Stephen Ives, Jr. in 1877. 12 In 1875 Sarah W.
Ricker, wife of the Captain, had bought the land and buildings at 20 Winter Street that had been
Lot #3 in the division of Benjamin Cheever’s estate, the portion of Sarah Cheever Lewis and her
husband Dana. In 1878 Ricker razed the original Benjamin Cheever homestead and was granted
a permit to build a new wooden dwelling house on that lot which is now 20 Winter Street.13
Stephen Ives, Jr. was an attorney in the firm Ives, Johnson and Ives in Salem at 114
Washington Street.14 A prominent citizen of Salem, Ives, was elected to a three-year term on
the School Committee from 1874-1877.15 He passed away in 1884, recorded in the Vital
Records for Massachusetts.16The Salem City Directory listed “Mrs. S.B. Ives, Jr., widow, “as still
10
SAL.232, for 22 Winter Street, MACRIS
The Salem News, May 23, 1873
12
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 985-256
13
Joyce King, House History for 20 Winter Street, HIS Archives, 1979
14
Salem City Directory, 1882-1883
15
Boston Poston, January 6, 1874
11
16
Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
�living at 22 Winter Street in 1886, along with Rose and Walter Creamer. 17 Walter Creamer was
a shoe manufacturer in Lynn. In January 1887 Constance B. Ives, widow of Stephen B. Ives, Jr.,
sold the house back to Oliver Ricker 18 On that same January day in 1887, Oliver Ricker sold the
house and land to Mary Jewett, the wife of Col. George R. Jewett.19 The 1897 Atlas shows M.
Jewett as owner of 22 Winter Street (see map in Sources).
In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, George Jewett was listed as 48 years old, and Mary was
47. Also listed were their three children: a son Holten, 22, a daughter Sarah Elizabeth, 18, and
another daughter Alice, 16. Mary Jewett’s mother, Mary Tibbets, 76, lived with them on Winter
Street, too, as well as three servants: Margaret Collie, 47, a native of Ireland whose occupation
was listed as laundress; Sophia Duff, 22, born in Nova Scotia; and Selma Strandberg, 20, who
immigrated from Sweden in 1896. The varied countries from which the three servants had
come to Salem reflected the growing number of immigrants arriving in Salem in the late 1800s
and early 1900s as more factories opened here. These familie would have benefited from the
services becoming available in the city for their benefit, such as the Settlement House
established by Caroline Emmerton in 1910. George Jewett’s occupation was listed in the census
as “Private Secretary.”20 Jewett at that time worked as secretary to Mrs. Joseph B. Cabot in
Boston.
By 1920 the Jewett household consisted of George and his wife Mary, their daughters
Alice Jewett, 35, and Sarah Elizabeth McCaw, 38, and her daughter Barbara McCaw, age 6.21 (A
search for information on Sarah Elizabeth’s husband, Frank McCaw, revealed the couple had
married in 1911; however, sometime after the birth of their daughter in 1913, the couple
apparently divorced. Records in Philadelphia in 1919 gave the date of Frank McCaw’s second
marriage to Alice Miles.22)
17
Salem City Directory, 1886
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 1189-137
19
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 1189-138
20
1900 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts
21
1920 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts
22
Ancestry.com. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriage Index, 1885-1951
18
�Mary Jewett died in 1927 at the age of 74. 23 George Jewett lived for another ten years in
the Winter Street house. The obituary published in the Boston Globe at the time of Col.
Jewett’s death illuminated his impressive career of service at both the local and state levels: 24
Following Jewett’s death, the house at 22 Winter Street was listed as “vacant” in city
directories from 1937 through 1944.25 During that period the Jewett daughters resided
elsewhere in Salem: S. Elizabeth McCaw on Lafayette Place and Alice Jewett on Washington
Square.26
23
24
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, Boston Transcript, 27 February 1927
Boston Globe, 10 February 1937
25
Salem City Directory, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944
26
Salem City Directory, 19
�In 1943 S. Elizabeth Jewett McCaw and Alice P. Jewett, having inherited 22 Winter
Street from their mother Mary Jewett, sold the house to Isaac Lisak. 27 Lisak, born in Kiev,
Ukraine, in 1903, had immigrated to Salem with his wife Annie who was born in Russia. He was
self-employed as a carpenter.28 The house sat vacant for another two years after the purchase,
perhaps while Lasik remodeled the interiors to eventually comprise six apartments. In 1945 the
first three tenants recorded as living there were Mrs. Audrey Durkee; Alex Gouseff, a buyer at
Almy Department Store; and Robert Stewart, who worked at GE in Lynn, and his wife Louise. 29
Not until 1951 were there a total of six units rented and occupied. Tenants were typically
middle or upper middle-class couples and individuals. The men were employed as salesmen,
clerks, safety engineers, chiropodist, lawyers and foremen among other professions; very few
occupations were listed in the City Directory for the women, presumably homemakers through
the1940s, 50s, and 60s (see Residents Table for a complete listing).
In May of 1962, Isaac Lisak died and shortly thereafter, his wife and heirs (Annie Lasik,
Sara and Gerald Posner and Judith and Richard Jaffee) formed Lisak Realty, comprised of three
parcels of land previously owned by Isaac Lisak, Parcel II being that of the Winter Street
property.30 In 1966 Salem Savings Bank acquired Lot #2 which was subsequently bought by
Ellen Tobias of Hamilton Realty Trust. 31 Three years later Roger Soderberg and Neil Schauer of
Marblehead formed Winter Street Realty Trust and, as such, acquired 22 Winter Street from
Tobias,32 shortly thereafter creating the Master Deed for 22 Winter Street Condominium,
consisting of six units, as NRS Realty in 1986.33
27
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 3346-207
1930 U.S. Federal Census Place: Salem, Ward 2, Essex County
29
Salem City Directory, 1945
30
Essex County Registry od Deeds, 4979-214
31
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 7046-532
32
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 7523-253
33
Essex County Registry of Deeds, 8377-399
28
�RESIDENTS TABLE
DIRECTORY YEAR
RESIDENT
OCCUPATION or NOTE
1850-1854
John Charles Howard
Ship chandler
1850-1854
Priscilla Cheever Howard
Wife of Joh Howard; sister of
Mary Cheever
1854-1877
1854-1877
1877-1884
1877-1886
1886
1887-1927
1887-1937
Oliver Ricker
Sarah W. Ricker
Stephen B. Ives, Jr.
Constance B. Ives
Rose Weaver
May Jewett
George R. Jewett
1887-~1920
Sarah Elizabeth Jewett
McCaw
Alice Jewett
Holten Jewett
Mary Tibbets
Shipmaster & merchant
Homemaker
Attorney
Wife, later widow of Stephen
Widow
Homemaker
Executive Councilman to
Mass. Governors
Daughter
1887-~1920
1887-~1920
1887-~1900
Daughter
Son
Mother of Mary Jewett
�1913-1920
1897- ?
1900-1904
1897- ?
1945-1949
1945
1945
1945
1947-1950
1947
1947
1947
1949-1951
1949-1951
1949-1957
Barbara McCaw
Margaret Collie
Sophia Duff
Selma Stranberg
Audrey Durkee (Mrs.)
Alex Gousseff
Robert Stewart
Louise Stewart
Doris Levenson
Arthur V. Marrs
Kath T. Marrs
Mary Marrs
James H. Green
Joyce Green
William Shoer
1949-1957
1950
1950-1951
1950-1952
1950-1952
1951
1951
1951
1951
1952
1952-1971
19523-1971
1952
1952
1952
1953-1956
1953-1956
1953
Jennie Shoer
William Hollum
Marjorie Hollum
Lawrence Marcus
Ruth Marcus
Merrill Goldstein
Fredda Goldstein
George L. Hamilton
Mary Hamilton
Veronica Blenkhorn (Mrs.)
Roger E. Knowlton
May Knowlton
Alfred Milton
Lillian Milton
Elizabeth Robinson (Mrs.)
Arthur E. Harding
Mary E. Harding
Arthur J. Landers
1953
1953-1955
Nancy Landers
Richard T. Soper
1953
DeLyle Soper
Grandchild
Laundress
Servant
Servant
Unknown
Buyer, Almy’s Dept. Store
Employee, GE
Homemaker
Homemaker
Foreman
Homemaker
Teacher
Salesman
Homemaker
Pres., Shaw’s Eggs & Poultry
Wholesale
Homemaker
Leather worker
Homemaker; widow in 1951
Chiropodist
Homemaker
Physician, Salem Hospital
Homemaker
Dental student
Homemaker
Unknown
Inspector, GE; later retired
Homemaker
Clerk
Homemaker
Widow of Charles R.
Compositor
Homemaker
Supervisor, Hytron Radio &
Electronics Co.
Homemaker
Safety Engineer, Lumberman
Mutual Insurance Co.
Unknown
�1954-1959
1954-1959
1954
1954
1955-1958
1955-1958
1957-1958
Gilman B. Melcher
Bertha Melcher
Richard W. Mackie
Dorothy Mackie
William A. McClare
Margaret McClare
Robert Tremblay
1957-1958
1957-1959
1957-1959
1958
Margaret Tremblay
Matthew F. Carroll, Jr.
Catherine Carroll
James Gallant
1958
1959
1959
1959-1960
1959-1960
1960-1970
1960-1961
1960
1960-1961
1961
1961
1963
1963
1963
Shirley Gallant
Charles P. Scouras
Helen Scouras
Walter A. Johnson
Judith M. Johnson
Edna Reed
Lillian G. Yates (Mrs.)
Evelyn A. Harrison (Mrs.)
William Crawley
John Walsh
Mary Walsh
George A. Moroney
Carol Moroney
Roy Faria
1963-1964
1964
1963
1963
Elizabeth A. Faria (Mrs.)
Roy Faria, Jr.
Marie Hurley (Mrs.)
Frederick G. Patten
1963
1964-1974
Joan T. Patten
Clarence E. Negretti
1964-1974
1964-1971
1964
Ann M. Negretti
Mary Blanchette (Mrs.)
William L. Blades
Foreman, Parker Bros, Inc.
Homemaker
USCG
Homemaker
Lawyer
Homemaker
Personnel Manager, Pioneer
Plastics
Homemaker
Paymaster, B&M RR, Boston
Homemaker
Salesman, Jerry’s Inc. Men’s
Furnishings
Homemaker
Sign painter
Homemaker
Tree surgeon
Homemaker
Unknown
Widow of Irving
Widow of Frank
Unknown
Clerk, Liggett’s
Homemaker
Salesman, Hood Dairy
Homemaker
Teacher, Peabody School
Dept
Bookkeeper, Naumkeag Trust
Unknown
Coffee Shop, Salem Hospital
Leather worker, Cut Rite
Leather
Homemaker
Launch man, Corinthian Yacht
Club. Marblehead
Homemaker
Widow of Arthur
Oiler, GE
�1964
1966-1970
1966-1970
1967-1973
1967-1973
1971-1972
1971-1972
1972-1973
1972-1973
1972-1974
1972-1974
1972
1973
1974
1974-1976
1974
1974
1975
1975
1975
Donna Blades
Francis McCormack
Ann McCormack
Edward Atwood
Beatrice Atwood
John Corning
Fay Corning
Richard Corning
Janet Corning
Richard Dionne
Susan Dionne
Adel Garonski
Adel Skaronski
Bill Lott
George Bannon
James Belanger
Donald Marchs
Stephen Heger
Cathy Nichols
Gerald Tatten
1975-1976
1975-1976
1975-1982
1976-1983
Gary Blau
Barbara Blau
Janet O’Connell
William M. Conway
1976-1983
1976
1976
1976
Karen Conway
Kathleen Bannon
Jack LeVert
Elizabeth O’Keefe
1977
1977-1982
1977
1977
1979-1981
1979
1979
1980-1983
Sally Fishman
Marco Pirrotta
Caroline Ruthkowski
Nick Verminsky
Sarah Hammons
B. Torres
Debra White
James Kent
Homemaker
Driver, Irving’s Taxi
Homemaker
Unknown
Unknown
Student
Homemaker
Employee, GE
Homemaker
Salesman
Homemaker
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Student; maintenance GE
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Professor, Salem State
College
Lawyer
Homemaker
Nurse
Outreach worker, Council on
Youth Needs
Homemaker
Homemaker (wife of George)
Carpenter
Nurse, North Shore Children’s
Hospital
Unknown
Orderly, Salem Hospital
Asst. Manager, Colonial Mkt
Unknown
Stewardess, TWA
Unknown
Unknown
Counselor
�1980-1983
1980-1983
1980-1983
1982-1983
1983
Robin Kent
Kenneth Rennick
Gina Rennick
Rebecca Embler
H. A. Doliber
1984, 1985
1986
Directories missing
MASTER DEED - WINTER
STREET CONDOMINIUM
Homemaker
Salesman
Homemaker
Student
Veterinary teacher, Bay State
Animal Clinic
�OWNERSHIP TABLE
Date
Purchased
October
18, 1672
Years of Number
Ownership of Years
1672-1685
13
Purchase
Price
unknown
Devised in
Probate
1682-1685
William Brown, Jr.
June 5,
1685
unknown
Essex
Probate
Record
unknown
Benjamin Cheever
Not known
Until 1837
at death
Mary Cheever
November
22, 1842
September
10, 1850
1842-1850
8
1850-1854
4
From
father’s will
$2,800
Oliver P. Ricker
June 21,
1854
1854-1877
23
$6,000
496147,148
Stephen B. Ives, Jr.
August 6,
1877
February 8,
1884
January 17,
1887
January 17,
1887
August 16,
1943
September
10, 1962
February
8,1983
November
4, 1983
1877-1884
7
$10,500
985-256
1884-1887
3
Exc. Widow
of Stephen
Property Owner
Jacob Pudeater
Ann Pudeater,
Exec.
John Charles
Howard
Constance B. Ives
Oliver Ricker
Mary Jewett
Isaac Lisak
LisakRealty Corp.
Ellen Tobias,
Hamilton Realty
John & Rosemary
Collins
3
Documents
Referenced
Index,
Essex
Registry
22909
Index,
Essex
Registry
Essex
probate
5207
334184,185
433-244
Notes
Book & page
listed do not
correspond
See Perley Map
c.1700
See Map of Salem
c.1780
Lot #4 from 5
parcel division
“and buildings
now in part
belonging to
said Howard”
“with dwelling
house and all
other buildings
thereon”
1189-137
1887-1943
56
$7,860
1189-138
1943-1962
19
1962-19
4
1983
>1
$26,000
7046-532
1983-1986
3
$60,000
7262-213
3346-207
4979-214
For consideration
paid
Parcel II – Winter
Street
�Roger Soderberg
& Neil Schauer as
July 9,
1986
7523-253
NRS Development
July 11,
1986
8377-399
to 407
Declaration of
Winter Street
Trust
MASTER DEED
WINTER STREET
CONDOMINIUM
�DEEDS
�������������������������SOURCES
��2. Perley Map of Salem 1700
�3. See Map detail next page
�4. Detail of Map of Salem c. 1780
�5. Salem Atlas 1874 – 22 Winter Street owned by Oliver Ricker
�6. Salem Atlas 1897 – 22 Winter owned by M. Jewett
�
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Priscilla Cheever
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House History and Plaque Program
34 Howard Street
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
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The House History of 34 Howard Street
�Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the opening chapter of The Scarlet Letter, noted that
“The
founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally
project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion
of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.” Though Hawthorne
was writing about Boston, the same pattern held true for his native Salem.
Those who died early in Salem’s settling were laid into the earth near the South River, in
what is now the Charter Street Burying Ground. Among the first laid to rest there were Jane
Francis, the first wife of Governor John Endecott, the first minister Francis Higginson, and Lady
Arabella Johnson, the namesake of Governor John Winthrop’s flagship. In 1669, it had become
necessary to enlarge the first plot of land to accommodate new burials.1 A new cemetery was
created in 1655 near the western edge of town. This would eventually come to be called the
Broad Street Cemetery.2 The Howard Street Burial Ground, adjacent to 34 Howard Street, was
established in 1801 to billet an ever-growing population of souls.
Salem’s first jail was built in 1684, where the brick office building at 10 Federal Street
sits today. Within a decade it would achieve infamy as the dungeon where accused witchcraft
suspects were kept in 1692. In 1763, the jail was rebuilt using many of the original timbers.
In 1811, a new stone jail was built in a Federal style along the western side of the
cemetery. The building material was granite from Rockport and the foundation an eight-foot
1
Perley, Sidney. A History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. I: 1626-1637. Salem, MA: Sidney Perley, 1924. pp.
182-183.
2
Perley, Sidney. A History of Salem, Massachusetts, Vol. II: 1638-1670. Salem, MA: Sidney Perley, 1926. pp.
219-220.
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�thick stone base.3 In 1813, a beautiful Federal mansion was built for the jailer or sheriff, possibly
by Samuel Field McIntire, the son of Salem’s most celebrated architect.4 In 1884 and 1885, the
prison was enlarged with a new Gothic Revival section designed by Rufus Sargent of
Newburyport.5
The house at 34 Howard Street has a marquee view of the new jail and the new cemetery,
the markers of Salem’s transition into a modern city in a new republic. The classical urns on the
graves of the Federal-era merchants and the large granite blocks of the jail show a society in the
midst of reinventing itself and looking for a more permanent legacy.
I: Early History
The neighborhood around Howard Street, situated as it is at the northern end of the Salem
peninsula on the North River, has been an important part of downtown Salem since the late
1600s. According to Sidney Perley, the earliest recorded property owner in that area was John
Gedney in 1640. John Whitlock owned the land at the near the present intersection of St. Peter
Street and Brown Street in 1650. In 1658, Richard Stackhouse and Christopher Waller owned
land in the area.6 The latter leant his name to that section of the North River, called then Waller’s
Cove, and may have owned the land at what is now 34 Howard Street. 7
3
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS); SAL.2416
4
MACRIS; SAL.2418.
5
Ibid.
6
Perley, vol. 1, pp. 313-314.
7
Perley, Sidney. “Salem in 1700, No. 15.” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 8. Salem: Sidney Perley. p. 66.
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�John Gedney, born around 1603, came to Salem in 1637 and worked as a vintner and an
innkeeper. He ran the Old Ship Tavern on what is now Central Street and owned a large farm in
what is today Peabody. He purchased land from Waller and divided the lot near what is now
Howard Street between his son, John Gedney, Jr. and his son-in-law Nicholas Potter.8 His son
Bartholomew Gedney (born in 1640) served as a judge and was one of those who presided over
the witchcraft trials of 1692. Another son, Eleazar Gedney, married Elizabeth the sister of John
Turner, builder of The House of the Seven Gables. In 1665, Eleazar built a house on High Street
which remained in the family until 1773 and still stands today. 9
In the early days, a road ran along the shore of the North River, much closer to the
property at 34 Howard Street than it is now. St. Peter Street was in existence as early as 1662. A
private way jutted off southwards along what is now Howard Street, stopping short of the
highway to the common, which is today Brown Street, but which existed as early as 1661. 10
The eastern end of this private way (the strip of land which today contains 34 Howard
Street) which belonged in 1700 to William Gedney.11
Gedney, the son of John Gedney Jr. and grandson of the original property owner, was
born in 1668. Gedney was a merchant and sheriff.12 His will, dated to 1730, leaves to his widow
8
Waters, Henry Fitzgilbert. The Gedney and Clarke Families of Salem, Mass. Salem: The Salem Press, 1880. pp.
6-7.
9
Historic New England. Accessed 7/29/2017. https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/gedney-house/
10
Ibid.
11
Phillips, James Duncan, Sidney Perley, and William W.K. Freeman. “Part of Salem in 1700.” Map. In Salem in the
Seventeenth Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933.
12
Waters, pp. 17-18.
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�Elizabeth “liberty…to live in any part of my house during her widowhood.”13 The real estate was
divided between his son, Batholomew Gedney, Jr., and his daughter, Hannah Grant, providing
them each with right of first refusal before the other sold their property. 14 His property was
valued in probate at £2837, a considerable sum. It included a shop, a warehouse, a cow, a calash
(a convertible carriage), an orchard, and common rights. The house that stood at the spot had 5
rooms: a parlor, a kitchen, and a back room on the first floor, a parlor chamber on the second,
and a garret. 15
The western end was the land of Stephen Haskett, who had a house down by the shore of
the river. Farther to the east of Gedney’s land were two large lots belonging to John Williams and
William Browne, where today can be found Williams, Oliver, and Mall Streets.
To the west were a number of house lots along Prison Lane, including John Ward, a
currier whose 1684 house was moved to Brown Street in 1910 by the Essex Institute and
survives today as part of the Peabody-Essex Museum.
Popular legend has it that accused witch Giles Corey was pressed to death in what is now
the Howard Street Burying Ground during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. However, according
to research by Emerson Baker, the site of Corey’s death was likely farther down Federal Street,
near the pedestrian passage towards Bridge Street. 16
13
Essex County Probate Records.
14 Ibid.
15
Ibid.
16
Emerson Baker, lecture. Salem State University. 10 June 2017.
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�Howard Street was laid out in 1801, the same year that Howard Street Cemetery was laid
out.17 Originally called Branch Street, it was renamed in 1828 for John Howard, a sailmaker and
warden of St. Peter’s Church.18
The first burial in the new cemetery was Benjamin Ropes, who was just 19 years old. His
headstone explains his sad fate, crushed by a mast while working on a ship:
While employed in the duties
of his Station
on board the shop Belisarius
a fatal accident put a period to his life
August 4, 1801
The headstones in the cemetery which are closest to the house at 34 Howard Street date
from the early part of the nineteenth century. There are two children of Edward Turner lost in the
course of two years: Charles, an infant son who died in January of 1812, and Cassandana, who
died in September of 1813 at 13 years old. There are also the stones of Seeth Ropes, widow of
Captain George Ropes, who died in 1823 at 54 years old, and Desier Weed, the wife of George
Weed. She died in 1826 at the age of 51.
17
Perley, p. 67.
18
Stella, Jeanne. “Howard Street had varied history.” The Salem News, 10 January 2016. Accessed 7/29/2017 http://
www.salemnews.com/opinion/letter-howard-street-had-varied-history/
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�II: The Neighborhood
Jonathan Peele Saunders’ 1820 map of Salem shows Howard Street labelled as Branch
Street, and down at the shore of the river can be seen the new “County Goal.”19 An 1832 map by
Saunders shows three shaded buildings in the block between St. Peter Street and Howard Street,
presumably the St. Peter's Episcopal Church, the Second Baptist Church, and the Howard Street
Orthodox Church.
Salem in the mid-nineteenth century was very much a city of churches. In addition to
those mentioned above, from the 1830s through the 1870s, nearby could be found St. Mary’s
Roman Catholic Church and the Universalist Church on Forrester Street, the Tabernacle Church
on Washington Street, the First Baptist Church, on what is now Federal Street, and the East
Church on the corner of Washington Square (now the Salem Common).
Of those closest to 34 Howard Street, the Howard Street Orthodox Church, also called
simply the Howard Street Church, was built in 1805. The church had a strong abolitionist bent,
including hosting the Grimké sisters, famous abolitionists.20 One of the church’s early ministers,
Charles Turner Torrey, died of tuberculosis in a Baltimore prison on charges of stealing slaves.21
In 1835, a mob of 200 people stoned the church and rioted when it was though that the British
19
Saunders, Jonathan Peele. “Plan of the Town of Salem in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts From actual
Surveys made in the years 1796 & 1804: with the improvements and alterations since that period as Surveyed by
Jonathan P. Saunders.” Map, 1820. Engraved by Annan & Smith, Boston. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston
Public Library. http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/12094
20
Stella, 2016.
21
“Charles Turner Torrey” Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Company,
1889. Accessed 29 July 2017. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Torrey,_Charles_Turner
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�anti-slavery speaker George Thompson.22 The church was overseen in 1842 by the Reverend Joel
Mann, who lived at 2 Briggs Street.23 In 1871, the church became the Prescott School.
The Second Baptist Church, built in 1826 on St. Peter Street24 The minister in 1842 was
the Reverend Joseph Banvard.25 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church was a stone Gothic Revival
building constructed in 1833 on the plans of Isaiah Rogers. The church housed an Anglican
congregation which had begun meeting in the 1730s around the time of the Great Awakening.
The majority of houses on Howard Street date from the decade of 1842 to 1852. 34
Howard Street is either the oldest or the second oldest house built on the street which survives
today.
The other candidate is the current 5 Howard Street, next to next to the location of the old
Howard Street Church. Stephen and Sarah Webb, who owned a large parcel in the area, sold part
of it to Aaron Smith, a carpenter, in 1829.26 Listed as 3 Howard Street, it appears in the 1842
Directory lived in by Aaron Smith, Jr. also a carpenter, and Benjamin Vanderford, a mariner.27 In
1851 the house was lived in by Aaron Smith, Jr. and Augustus A. Smith, a clerk with W. and S.B.
22
“Mob in Salem” Vermont Watchman and State Gazette [Montpelier, Vermont] 10 Nov. 1835: n.p. 19th Century
U.S. Newspapers. Web 24 August 2016.
23
Ibid. p. 55.
24
The first Baptist Church had been built in 1805 on Marlboro Street (today Federal Street), that building was
moved in 2008 to the corner of North Street where it now serves as a law library.
25
The Salem Directory and City Register; Containing Names of the Inhabitants, their Occupations, Places of
Business, and Residences, with Lists of City Officers, Banks, Insurance Offices, Societies, &c. Names of the Streets
and Wharves; and Other Useful Information. Salem: Henry Whipple, 1842. p. 7.
26
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Deed 254:78. 2 November 1829.
27
1842 Directory, p. 82 and p. 91.
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�Ives, book binders at 232 Essex Street.28 The house at 3 Howard Street may have been altered to
create the present-day house at 5 Howard Street, or it could have been torn down and replaced by
a Queen-Anne style house around 1895.
Number 34 was followed roughly by 18 Howard Street built by Henry A. Ruee29 and 30
Howard Street, built by Nancy Felton. 30 Both were built around 1845 in the Greek Revival style.
The Greek Revival filtered down from the work of European antiquarians and architects
to American polymaths like Thomas Jefferson and architects like William Strickland and
received a great boost of popularity from the 1830 pattern-book, The Practical House Carpenter,
by Connecticut-and-Massachusetts-based architect Asher Benjamin. It was the dominant
American architectural style of the 1830s, and lasted into the 1860s.
Around 1846, four more Greek Revival houses were built on Howard Street. Number 16
by an unknown owner31, number 22 by Samuel W. Pease32, number 26 by Samuel G. Jones33,
and number 28 by Willaim Aiken34. The following year, Daniel B. Lord built a neighboring
house at 38 Howard Street also in the Greek Revival style.35
28
1851 Map; 1851 Directory, p. 186.
29
MACRIS, SAL.2387
30
MACRIS, SAL.2382
31
MACRIS, SAL.2388
32
MACRIS, SAL2386
33
MACRIS, SAL.2384
34
MACRIS, SAL.2383
35
MACRIS, SAL.2380
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�The first Italianate house appeared on the street, built at number 24 in 1850. 36 The
Italianate style of architecture, which drew on Italian Renaissance architectural features such as
flat roofs, long arched windows, and heavy cornices, reigned from the 1840s to the 1860s.
Though as with the Greek Revival, changes in architecture were slow to catch on in Salem in the
mid-nineteenth century and the Italianate arrived as late as the Greek Revival had in comparison
to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
In 1851, three houses were added to the street. One, the house at number 42 built by Levi
Wiggin, was wholly Italianate; 37 another, at 12 Howard Street built by Henry W. Thurston, was
entirely Greek Revival; 38 a third, the Lambert Porter house at 8 Howard Street, a mix of the two
styles. 39
A Greek Revival house was built by John Prince in 1852 at 40 Howard Street. This would
be the last architectural addition for more than 40 years. 40 The Queen Anne Style of architecture
became popular in the United States around 1880 and lasted into the early twentieth century. It
was an elaborate and fanciful style, incorporating steep gables, oriel windows, turrets,
balustrades, and terra cotta tiles among other features. Two (potentially three) Queen Anne
houses were built in 1894 and 1895 at the Southern end of Howard Street, including the Sarah E.
36
MACRIS, SAL.2385
37
MACRIS, SAL.2378
38
MACRIS, SAL.2389
39
MACRIS, SAL.2391
40
MACRIS, SAL.2379
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�Balcomb House at 1-3 Howard Street.41424344 In 1906 a plain house built by Frances Findlay at
number ten as a residence and apartments, became the latest addition to Howard Street.45
An 1851 map of Salem by Henry McIntyre was the first to show individual homes.46
Those who are listed along the street are Rev. Dr. J.T. O’Flaherty4748, N. Jackson (who may be
Nathaniel Jackson, a stonecutter listed at St. Peter Street), 49 Daniel B. Lord, a carpenter50 and
William B. Aiken, a mariner.51 Farther down the street are Samuel G. Jones, a tailor and draper
who worked at 8 Front Street52, Samuel W. Pease, a tin-plate worker, who worked at 128 Derby
41
MACRIS, SAL.2428
42
MACRIS, SAL.2392
43
Historic Salem, Inc., “1-3 Howard Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970,” House Histories of Salem, accessed
August 1, 2017, http://hsihousehistory.omeka.net/items/show/396.
44
MACRIS, SAL.2429
45
MACRIS, SAL.2390
46
McIntyre, Henry. “Map of the City of Salem, Mass. From an actual survey By H. Mc. Intyre. Cl. Engr.” Map,
1851. Henry McIntyre, Salem, MA. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library. http://
www.leventhalmap.org/id/15108
47
The Salem Directory and City Register; Containing Names of the Inhabitants, their Occupations, Places of
Business, and Residences, with Lists of City Officers, Banks, Insurance Offices, Societies, &c. Names of the Streets
and Wharves; and Other Useful Information. Salem: Henry Whipple, 1846., p. 82.
48
His wife, Jane O’Flaherty, is the only one listed in the 1851 Directory: Adams, George. Salem Directory…also
including a directory of the towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. H. Whipple, Salem, MA. 1851, p.
114.
49
Ibid., p. 92.
50
Ibid., p. 101
51
Ibid., p. 35
52
Ibid., p. 93
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�Street,
53
Henry A. Ruee, a carpenter54, and George W. Estes, a restaurateur who owned a
confectionary at 10 Newbury Street.55
Along Bridge Street (then called Forrester Street) at the bottom of the cemetery are the
hay market, the city scales, and the pig market, the latter floating in the North River. The city’s
scales were for the weighing of hay and were overseen in 1842 by Elias W. Fabens.56 The pig
market goes unmentioned in the directory, but ten butchers were located around the city. The
closest to 34 Howard Street was likely Joseph S. Leavitt, Jr. a butcher in the Franklin market at
114 Essex Street on the other side of the Common. 57
53
Ibid. p. 118
54
Ibid., p. 131
55
Ibid., p. 70
56
Ibid., p. 30.
57
Ibid., p. 52.
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�Table 1: Houses on Howard Street
No.
Date
Builder
Occupation
Style
8
c. 1851
Lambert Porter
Cabinetmaker
Greek Revival/Italianate
10
1906
Frances Findlay
Landlord
Generic early 20th century
12
c. 1851
Henry W. Thurston
Cabinetmaker
Greek Revival
16
c. 1846
18
c. 1845
Henry A. Ruee
Carpenter
22
c. 1846
Samuel W. Pease
Tin-plate worker
24
c. 1850
26
c. 1846
Samuel G. Jones
Tailor and draper
Greek Revival
28
c. 1846
William Aiken
Mariner
Greek Revival
30
1845
Nancy Felton
Unlisted if any
Greek Revival
34
c
Postman
Greek Revival
Greek Revival
Greek Revival
Italianate
. James Trask
1842-18
45
38
c. 1847
Daniel B. Lord
Carpenter
Greek Revival
40
1852
John Prince, Jr.
Mariner
Greek Revival
42
c. 1851
Levi Wiggin
Provisions
Italianate
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�III. James and Lucy Trask, c. 1845- c. 1887
James Trask was born about 1808 in New Hampshire.58 On December 3, 1833, he
married Lucy Smith Pearce.59 In September of 1835, their first child, Ebenezer Pierce Trask, was
baptized.60 Elizabeth and James Edward were both baptized on April 17, 1849.61
Salem in the 1840s was transitioning from its heyday as a maritime port towards it latter
nineteenth-century identity as a manufacturing center. In 1846, the brig Lucilla became the last
Salem ship to bring a cargo of pepper from Sumatra, ending a half century of Salem’s most
lucrative trade. Caleb Smith ran a sperm whale oil and candle factory at 64 Harbor Street.62
Daniel Hanson had a hair manufactory at 48 Bridge Street,63 and Andrew and Jonathan Harraden
had a cordage factory at 18 Brown Street.64 Other industries included lead, twine,65oil and acid,66
and stockings.67 Salem in the early Victorian age was a city of cabinetmakers, cordwainers, and
curriers deeply invested in numerous charitable and moral societies, including the Salem
58
The forms of the 1810 census have offered two potential parents for James Trask: Retire Trask, from Alstead in
southwestern New Hampshire, who had 1 son under 10, or the widow Hannah Trask from Wolfboro in north central
New Hampshire, who had 3 sons under the age of 10.
59
Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1916. Vol. 2:
Salem Marriages, p. 394
60
Vital Records of Salem, Vol. 1: Births, p. 357
61
Ibid., p. 358
62
1842 Directory, p. 82.
63
Ibid, p. 41.
64
Ibid.
65
Ibid, p. 59.
66
Ibid, p. 3.
67
Ibid, p. 80.
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�Charitable Marine Society, the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association, and the Female Moral
Auxillary society.
In 1842, Trask was a “post man” who lived at 28 Beckford Street, a large house near the
river which by 1846 was lived in by William T. Morse, a currier, and Herron Leavitt, a
carpenter.68 By 1846, Trask is listed at Howard Street, 69 though I have yet to locate a deed or a
passing of the property to Trask by probate.
The house is Greek Revival and very similar in design to the houses at numbers 38 and
40 along the street to the north. ½ stories and 6 bays wide with a south facing door and an ell, 2
bays wide, added by 1874 which extends from the southern façade of the house with a sloping
roof. There are heavy eaves, particularly on the gable-end of the house, and a dormer to the right
of the front door. The windows are 6 over 6, as they likely would have been when the house was
first constructed. There is only one window on the northern façade. The front door has a simple
but elegant entablature with six sidelights. It has been upgraded from its appearance in 1998,
when it was a simple storm door.70 The house was reclapboarded around 198071 and further
restored in the mid-2010s.
The 1851 directory lists Trask as working for the “penny post,” 72 a type of postal system
where letters could be sent for a penny. There were several short-lived local penny post
operations in the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. The Federal Post Office was located at
68
1846 Directory, p. 68 and p. 77.
69
1846 Directory, p. 114.
70
MACRIS, SAL.2381.
71
Ibid.
72
1851 Directory, p. 145
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�165 Essex Street. Caleb Foote, who lived at 4 Warren Street, was the Post Master in 1842.73
George Russell, who lived at 14 St. Peter Street, was a clerk in the post office. By 1883, the Post
Office will have moved to Washington Street, near the intersection with Essex Street.74 By the
early 20th century, when postal employees are listed together in the directories, there were 79
employees at the post office.75 The current Colonial Revival post office on Margin Street was
built in 1932.76
In 1852, Trask purchased a parcel of land in North Salem on Buffum Street for $1000.
The seller, John A. Innis, was an auctioneer, and a seller of dry goods and groceries.77 In 1857,
Trask was listed as a “letter carrier” and his son, Eben, was listed as a clerk at 109 Boston
Street.78 In that year 109 Boston was the home of Mary Stone, a widow, and Charles P.R.
Saunders, a carpenter.79
In 1860, the census listed Trask’s real estate value at $4,000. The only other residents of
Howard Street with property of similar value were Levi Wiggin, a provisions dealer, Mary Flinn,
an Irish immigrant, and George W. Estes, a fruit and confectioner. 80 One of residents of the street
73
1842 Directory, p. 33.
74
D. Mason & Co. “Salem, Mass. 1883.” Map. Syracuse, New York, 1883.
75
1914 Directory, p. 481.
76
MACRIS, SAL.1140.
77
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed Book 464, Page 126. 28 July 1852.
78 Adams,
George. The Salem Directory containing the City Record, Schools, Churches, Banks, Societies, Etc.,
Names of the Citizens, A Business Directory, General Events of the Year 1854 and 1855, An Almanac for 1857, and
a Variety of Miscellaneous Matter. Salem: Henry Whipple & Son, 1857. p. 172.
79
1857 Directory, p. 166 and p. 157.
80
United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MZHK-PKQ : 26 July 2017)
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�at that time, however, was a 30-year-old William Filene, a recent immigrant from Prussia. He
lived with the Batchelders (seemingly no relation to the family Elizabeth married into) at number
14 Howard Street in 1860, with his wife Clara and two young children. 81 In 1881, he founded
Filene’s Sons & Co., which became a large chain of department stores which existed until 2006.
An 1874 map shows the house still in possession of James Trask, with most of the
neighboring houses still in possession of the families which constructed them.82 47 St. Peter
Street was used by Trask as a store, as his list of personal estate shows. The fixtures were worth
$15 in his probate inventory.
Trask died on April 16, 1879. Eben P. Trask, his son, was his executor.83 His 1878 will
left his property to his wife, Lucy. On his wife’s death, the house was to go to his daughter,
Elizabeth. Trask describes it as the House Land, and furniture situated on Howard Street
belonging to me, and in which I now live.”84
The three appraisers included Trask’s neighbor Daniel B. Lord. The house at Howard
Street was valued at $1,800, while a two-and-one-half story dwelling house and land on St. Peter
Street were valued at $3,300. A quarter of a tomb in the Broad Street Burying Ground was worth
$5. The total value given to his real estate was $5,105.
The valuation of his personal property gives an insightful look at the functions of the
rooms in the house in the late 1870s. There were a sitting room, a bedroom, a dining room, a
81
Ibid.
82
Busch, Edward. Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts. From actual Survey & Official records. G.M. Hopkins
& Co. Philadelphia, 1874.
83
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Probate Record No. 55585.
84
Ibid.
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�store room, a panty, a sitting chamber, and a back chamber. The total value of the articles in the
rooms was $170, as shown in Table 2 below. In addition to the household furniture, he had
owned a gold watch worth $15 and U.S. Government bonds worth $600. At the time of his death,
his debts amounted to $372.77 and the expenses of his funeral and end of life care were $144.25.
Table 2: Personal Property of James Trask by Room, 1879
Sitting Room
$55
Bedroom
$30
Dining room & store room
$30
Pantry
$10
Sitting Chamber & Back Chamber
$45
TOTAL
$170
James’ widow, Lucy, continued to reside in the house with their son, James Trask, Jr. until
at least 1886.85868788 James was a painter and roofer at 208 Bridge Street in 1886. 89
85
The Salem Directory, 1881 Containing in the City Record, Business Directory, and Street Directory, No. XIX.
Sampson, Davenport, & Co. Salem: A.A. Smith & Co. p. 347.
86
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, containing a list
of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the Districts and other Matters of General and Local Interest. No. 1 –
1882-83. Salem: Henry M. Meek & Francis A. Fieldler. p. 67.
87
The Salem Directory 1884 Containing a Directory Citizens, Street Directory, The City Record, and Business
Directory with Map. Also Directories for the Towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. No. XXI.
Boston: Sampson, Davenport, & Co. p. 49.
88
The Salem Directory 1886 Containing a Directory of the Citizens, Street Directory, The City Record, and
Business Directory with Map. Also Directories for the Towns of Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead. No.
XXII. Sampson, Murdoch, & Co. Salem: Mackintire and Henry P. Ives. p. 50.
89
Ibid. p. 359.
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�IV. Elizabeth Batchelder, c. 1887-1914
Elizabeth Trask married Charles F. Batchelder, of Danvers in 1870. 90 Batchelder, the son
of a morocco dresser, lived on High Street in Danvers.91 The Batchelders had three children:
Lucy F., born in 1872, Charles E., born in 1873, and Frederick Putnam, born in 1875.92 In 1900,
Charles was a morocco worker, Lucy was a milliner, and Frederick was a bookkeeper.93
Though she owned the property at 34 Howard Street, Elizabeth Batchelder did not live
there. The 1900 Census lists her address as 13 Jacobs Street in Peabody. 94
The earliest renter to appear is George G. Tyler, in 1891, a conductor on the Boston &
Maine Railroad.95 He is listed in the property in 1893-4, 1895-96, 1897-98 as well.969798 In 1896
o 1897, the street was renumbered and 34 Howard Street, which had previously been numbered
90
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Probate Record No. 55585.
91
Danvers City Directory, 1882. p. 6; Naumkeag District Directory, 1882, p. 340.
92
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:M9R8-935 : accessed 1 August 2017), Elizabeth Batchelder in household of Charles Batchelder, Precinct
3 (west half) Peabody town, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 434, sheet 22A,
family 468, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration,
1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,647.
93
Ibid.
94
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:M9R8-935 : accessed 1 August 2017), Elizabeth Batchelder in household of Charles Batchelder, Precinct
3 (west half) Peabody town, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 434, sheet 22A,
family 468, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration,
1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,647.
95
Salem Directory, 1890-91. p. 119 and p. 322.
96
1893-1894 Directory, p. 118.
97
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and
Manchester. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General
and Local Interest. No. 7. 1895-96. Salem: The Salem Observer Office. p. 339.
98
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and
Manchester. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General
and Local Interest. No. 8. 1897-98. Salem: The Salem Observer Office. p. 124.
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�at 22, received the street number it bears today. An 1897 map has the property belonging to E.P.
Batchelder.99
By 1899-1900, James G. Beals, a hostler, lived in the house with his wife Christine and
his daughter, Mary E. Dominic. Christine’s father was a German immigrant. Mary was 41 and
worked as a shoe stitcher. She had three living children, including Bessie, aged 12, who lived
with the family. 100 The 1900 Census lists the Beals family at Brooks Court in Salem. 101
Warren D. and Emma G., employees at the Salem jail, moved into 34 Howard Street by
1901.102 In 1900, there were seven employees at the jail. Samuel Johnson, age 52, was the
sheriff, and lived at the jailer’s house with wife, Lily, and two children. Catherine Dimeen was
his family’s 19-year-old Irish servant. Warren Cobb was the first officer, Emma was the matron.
John F. Horse and Francis F. Johnson were the turnkeys, George F. Derby was the steward, Israel
P. Leavitt was the watchman, and James W. Brient was the shop officer.103 There were 131
prisoners listed in that year. They had diverse backgrounds, mainly from Massachusetts, Maine,
99
Map of the City of Salem and Towns of Marblehead, Peabody, and Danvers. L.J. Richards & Co., Philadelphia,
1897. p. 341.
100
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and
Manchester. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General
and Local Interest. 9. 1899-1900. p. 177.
101
Ibid.
102
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Hamilton,
Wenham, Middleton, and Topsfield. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other
Matters of General and Local Interest. No. 10. 1901-1902. p.
103
Population schedules: Essex Co. (ED 426, sheet 2-end, and ED's 427- 442, 1786 (House of Correction and Jail);
443-452.
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�Nova Scotia, French Canada, Ireland, Italy, and New York. Matt Jacobsen was a prisoner from
Finland, George Dennett from Scotland, and Patrick Ryan from Illinois. 104
Previously, the Cobbs had lived at 16 Howard Street. 105 The Cobbs continued to live at 34
Howard until 1909.106 In that year, they moved to New Hampshire.107
In the 1911 atlas of Salem, the house is depicted as still belonging to James Trask’s
daughter Elizabeth P. Batchelder.108 From 1910 until 1914, James Needham, a machinist, and
Frederick J. Needham, a shoe cutter and substitute letter carrier, lived at 34 Howard Street.109
Two year previous, the Needhams had been at 18 Ropes Street.110
The 1914 Directory lists J. Needham, perhaps Frederick J. Needham, a postal clerk.111 In
that year, Frederick J. Needham was listed as a postal clerk.112 Perhaps the postal connection is
how Frederick was able to rent the house from Elizabeth. Elsewhere in the directory, Needham’s
104
Ibid.
105
1897-1898 Directory, p. 186.
106
Meek, Henry M. The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, and
Ipswich. Containing a list of the Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and Other Matters of General and
Local Interest. No. 16, 1908. p. 188.
107
1910 Directory, p. 217
108
Atlas of the City of Salem, Massachusetts Based on Plans in the Office of the City Engineer. Walker Lithograph
& Publishing Company, Boston, 1911.
109
The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Essex, Ipswich, containing a List
of Inhabitants and Business Firms of the District and other Matters of General and Local Interest. No. 18. Salem,
Massachusetts: Henry M. Meek Publishing Company, 1910. p. 330.
110
1908 Directory, p. 298.
111
The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, and Peabody, Containing an Alphabetical
List of the Inhabitants and the Business Firms of the District, Street and Householders Directories, and Other
Miscellaneous Matters for each City. Naumkeag Series- No. 22. Salem, Massachusetts: Henry M. Meek Publishing
Co., 1914. p. 136.
112
Ibid.
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�address is given as boarding with his brother, James Needham, an engineer for the Salem Fire
Department, at 25 Winthrop Street.113 Rachel C. Craig, matron of the Salem jail, is said to be
living at 34 Howard Street and there is a Robert A. Craig, a chauffeur, listed at 25 Winthrop.114
A group of trustees of Elizabeth P. Batchelder sold the property in October of 1914 to
Mary and Hannah Cotter.115 The group of trustees were mostly family: Fred P. Batchelder,
Elizabeth’s son, was a stock clerk for an electrical company who lived in Peabody with his wife
Alice M. Batchelder. Lucy F. Crehore, Elizabeth’s daughter, is listed along with her husband,
Minot. Minot Crehore lived with Howard W. Trask at 80 Franklin Street in Peabody, 116 and ran a
grocery called M. Crehore & Co. at 1 King Street in Peabody.117 Howard W. Trask worked at J.
Arthur Trask and Sons, masons, though the relation if any, is unclear. Her other son, Charles F.
Batchelder, still a bachelor at age 41, was listed as well. John B. Maynard was an auto supplier
and his wife, Grace B. Maynard, who lived at 6 Humphreys Place in Dorchester. Her relation to
Elizabeth is currently unknown.
113
1914 Directory, p. 78
114
1914 Directory, p. 243.
115
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed 2278:262. 15 October 1914.
116
1914 Directory, p. 1023.
117
Ibid, p. 1061.
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�V. The Cotters and the Ronans, 1914-1963
Mary E. and Hannah Cotter are first listed as the residents in the 1915 Directory.118
Hannah was born in 1865, Mary in 1870, to Fanny and Simon Cotter. Fanny was born in
Ireland in 180 and was widowed by 1890.119
From 1890 to 1894, Hannah and Mary lived at 85 Derby Street with their widowed
mother, and two older brothers, James and John, both day laborers.120 Hannah worked as a shoe
buttoner and Mary a shoe stitcher.121 In 1895, the family moved to 133 Derby Street.122 The 1900
census shows Hannah and Mary as weavers.123 By 1901-2, Hannah moved to 12 Becket while
Mary stayed at 133 Derby.124 They then lived together at 12 Becket Street from at least 1904 to
1910.125126127
118
The Naumkeag Directory for Salem, Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, and Peabody, Containing an Alphabetical
List of the Inhabitants and the Business Firms of the District, Street and Householders Directories, and Other
Miscellaneous Matters for each City. Naumkeag Series- No. 23. Salem, Massachusetts: Henry M. Meek Publishing
Co., 1915. p. 220.
119
United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:M9R8-NVM : accessed 1 August 2017), Hannah Cotter in household of Fannie Cotter, Salem city Ward
1, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 439, sheet 2A, family 28, NARA microfilm
publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm
1,240,647.
120
1893-94 Directory, p. 186.
121
1890-91 Directory, p. 181.
122
1897-98 Directory, p. 190.
123
1900 Census.
124
1901-2 Directory, p. 204.
125
1905 Directory, p. 238.
126
1906 Directory, p. 195.
127
1910 Directory, p. 224.
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�Their mortgage was $1,200.128The Cotters lived at 34 Howard Street through 1924.129130
In 1924, Annie M. Ronan, widow of John H. Ronan, moved to 34 Howard Street. 131 Mary
continued to live there as well. This arrangement existed until 1926.
The Ronans lived previously at 7 Oakland Street in Salem, near the border with Peabody.
Frederick H. Ronan, the head of the family, was 25 and a tacker at a tannery. His mother, Annie
M., was 56 and already a widow. Her parents were immigrants from Ireland. Also at home was
Frederick’s sister, Frances C. Ronan, who was 32 and a bookkeeper at an insurance agency. 132
In late 1928, Annie C. Ronan filed a petition to partition the property as it was transferred
in 1914. Those listed in the petition were Victoria Dialtus, also called Annie Cotter, her guardian
Frances Ronan, and mortgagee Arthur D. Fowler.133
In 1929, Annie E. Ronan and Victoria Daltus, received the property from Horace P.
Farnum, Commissioner, through probate. 134 That year’s directory lists Frederick J. Ronan, a
gardener, as the primary resident. Annie M. and Frances are also at 34 Howard Street.135 Annie
128
Essex County Registry of Deeds, Document 2278:262. 15 October 1914.
129
Directory for Salem and Beverly, Containing an Alphabetical List of the Inhabitants and the Business Firms of
the District, Street and Householders Directories, and Other Miscellaneous Matters for each City. Naumkeag
Series- No. 28. Salem, Massachusetts: Henry M. Meek Publishing Co., 1921. p. 240.
130
Ellen F. Hallisey, the widow of James, lived the year previously at 6 Flint Street and moved to 40 Howard Street,
though the index of the 1922 Directory erroneously lists her at 34 Howard.
131
1924 Directory, p. 256.
132
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:MXYY-ZS8 : accessed 1 August 2017), Frances C Ronan in household of Fredrick H Ronan, Salem Ward
6, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 279, sheet 8B, line 53, family 68, NARA microfilm publication
T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 697; FHL microfilm 1,820,697.
133
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Petition for Partition 2789:133. 26 Nov. 1928.
134
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed 2794:573. 24 January 1929.
135
1929 Directory, p. 410.
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�Ronan, a widow, gave the property to her daughter Frances Ronan in 1931 for consideration
paid.136 The directories continue to list Frederick as the householder in 1920, 1931, and 1932.
The 1935 polls listing shows Frederick as the owner and Annie and Frances as residents.137 In
1937 and 1939, Frances is listed as the householder in the directories. The 1937 poll listing gives
Frederick’s profession as laborer, and Annie and Frances as bookkeepers. By that year, Annie
was 69 years old, while Frances was 49 and Frederick 45.138
In 1940, Catherine J. O’Hare, a 52-year-old WPA worker, moved in to the house.139 In
1943, Barbara M. Brown, a 56-year-old clerk, moved in as well. 140 Frances is listed as clerk and
stenographer in these years, and O’Hare may have been a coworker.
In 1950, Frances Ronan owned the property with her profession listed as a trustee. 141 The
following year, the residents are listed as Frances Ronan, a trustee, Angus Naugle, a city
employee, William Brady, retired. Angus was 67 and Brady was 74. The year previous, Brady
had lived at 5 Oliver Street with two nurses, and Naugle had lived at a boarding house at 8
Brown Street.142
136
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed 2875:151. 3 March 1931.
137
List of Polls 1935, City of Salem, Mass. Salem: Newcomb & Gauss. p. 258.
138
List of Polls 1937, City of Salem, Mass. Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, p. 32.
139
List of Polls 1940, City of Salem, Mass. Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, p. 30.
140
List of Polls 1943, City of Salem, Mass. Salem: Newcomb & Gauss p. 28.
141
List of Polls 1950, City of Salem, Mass. Boston: Spaulding-Moss Company, p. 23.
142
Ibid, p. 21.
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�In 1954, Frank Lord, age 78, moved from either Pittsfield or Florida to also live at 34
Howard Street.143 In 1962, just Lord and Ronan were left.
John T. Ronan, possibly a nephew, received the property in 1963. 144 He had been born in
1922 to James J. Ronan, a superior court judge, and Marie T. Ronan. He grew up at 348 Essex
Street, a Federal mansion.
VI. Later History, 1963-2005
Ronan rented out the house for seven years before selling it. Salvatore G. Zavaglia, a
custodian, and his wife Priscilla A. moved from 25 High Street to 34 Howard Street in 1964.145
The couple lived in the home until 1968 or 1969.
Leo R. and Jeanette Jalbert purchased the home from John T. Ronan in April of 1970.146
Leo was a carpenter and later a “game worker” born in 1912.147 Leo was the son of George
Jalbert, a French Canadian immigrant and laborer, and Lena Jalbert, from Maine. In 1940, Leo
was working as a laborer on a W.P.A. sewer project. 148
143
List of Polls 1955, City of Salem, Mass. Everett, MA: Acme Offset Printing Co. p. 21.
144
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed 5112:253. 9 October 1963.
145
1964 Poll Listing for the City of Salem p. 16.
146
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Deed 5678:387. 21 April 1970.
147
1972 Poll Listing for the City of Salem.
148
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/
61903/1:1:K4XL-FT2 : accessed 1 August 2017), Leo Jalbert in household of George Jalbert, Ward 5, Salem, Salem
City, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-356, sheet 4B, line 76, family 78,
Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census,
1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1589.
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�Willard Fullerton, Sr. a boat builder and fisherman was listed in 1971, likely as the tenant
of a portion of the house.
Leo died in 1978 and Jeanette became the sole owner of the property. 149 In 1984, Evelyn
Fullerton became a joint tenant.150 Jeannette Jalbert, born in 1917, continued to live at the
property until 1996. She sold her part to Willard and Evelyn in 2000. 151
Willard Fullerton Sr. (born in 1941) and Evelyn Fullerton (born 1944) continued to live at
the property until 2004. Willard Fullerton, Jr. (born in 1961) , Veronica Fullerton (born in 1962),
and Frederick Fullerton (born 1967) appear at different times as well. The two senior Fullertons
transferred ownership to Willard Jr., Veronica, and Evelyn in 2001.152
The Fullertons sold the property in 2005. At that time Willard and Evelyn lived in
Bridgewater, New Hamsphire, and Veronica lived in Lowell.153
149
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Document 6605:276. 26 June 1979.
150
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Document 7324:348. 27 January 1984.
151
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Document 16542:561. 28 August 2000.
152
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Document 17038:445. 26 March 2001.
153
Essex County Registry of Deeds. Document 24348:476. 5 April 2005.
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�Table 3: Primary Owners and Inhabitants of 34 Howard Street
Years
c. 1845-1879
Owner
Other Inhabitants
James Trask
Lucy Trask, Elizabeth Trask, James Trask Jr., Eben
P. Trask
1879-1890
Lucy Trask
James Trask Jr.
1890-1914
Elizabeth Trask
-George G. Tyler et al., 1891- c. 1898
-James G. Beals et al. c. 1898-1901
-Warren D. and Emma G. Cobb, 1901-1909
-Frederick J. Needham and James Needham,
1909-1914
1914-1929
Hannah and Mary Cotter
Annie Ronan, 1924-1929?
1929-1931
Annie Ronan and Victoria Frances and Frederick Ronan
Dialtus
1931-1963
Frances Ronan
Frederick J. Ronan, Annie Ronan.
1963-1970
James T. Ronan
Salvatore and Priscilla Zavaglia, 1963-1970?
1970-1978
Leo and Jeannette Jalbert
Willard Fullerton, Sr., Evelyn Fullerton, Willard
Fullerton, Jr., Veronica Fullerton
1978-1984
Jeannette Jalbert
1984-2000
Jeannette Jalbert and Evelyn
Fullerton
2000-2001
Evelyn Fullerton and Willard
Fullerton
2001-2006
Evelyn Fullerton, Willard
Fullerton, Veronica Fullerton
2006-2009
Andrew & Sara Balter
2009-2012
John Paul & Meghan Collette
2012-2016
Tara Eschbach
2016-present
Edward & Maren Juliano
Page 27 of 28
�VII. Conclusion
34 Howard Street has had an interesting history over the last century and a half.
Bordering the two great macabre marks of early nineteenth-century Salem, the house has a
special window to the ghoulish spirit and legacy of this city. It was the house of a postman turned
grocer whose neighbors were middle-class strivers and immigrants. Later, it became a rental
property whose inhabitants often had connections to the Salem Jail. For much of the twentieth
century, it was the home to immigrants and their descendants: A German-American, IrishAmericans, Italian-Americans, and Quebecois-Americans. Many of its residents were part of the
systems of government, such as the Salem jail, the post office, and the city water department.
Their lives tell of the changing nature and persistence of our institutions. The house at 34
Howard Street is a testament to the ambitions and changes of almost two centuries of New
England.
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1-3 Howard Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
An account of the resource
Sarah E. Balcomb, educator, 1894
Creator
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Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
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1894, 1979
Contributor
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Joyce King
Language
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English
1-3
1894
1979
Balcomb
Educator
Howard
Joyce
King
Massachusetts
Salem
Sarah
Street
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Title
A name given to the resource
Brown Street
Historic Salem, Inc. House History
A resource made available by Historic Salem, Inc. detailing the history of Salem's houses.
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Title
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8 Brown Street, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970
Subject
The topic of the resource
House history
Description
An account of the resource
Built for Joseph Howard, merchant by 1809
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Historic Salem, Inc. house history
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Historic Salem, Inc., Salem Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1809, 1981
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Joyce King
Language
A language of the resource
English
1809
8
8 Brown
Brick
Brown
Federal
Howard
Joseph
Joseph Howard
merchant