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Title Bostick, E. P. (Emanuel P.)
Date 1835-ca. 1895
Description Emanuel P. Bostick, born 1835 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, worked as a printer and lithographer in Philadelphia from the 1860s through 1870s. Originally a newspaper foreman and printer for the "Columbia Spy" in Lancaster in the 1850s, he relocated to Philadelphia by 1867 and operated a "Steam Power Job Printing and Lithographing Establishment at 23 (33?) South 7th St., Philadelphia." By the 1886 city directory, Bostick worked in "real estate".
In 1850, Bostick resided in Columbia Borough, Lancaster County, PA as a printer and by 1860 with his wife, Sarah J. (1840-1900). Following his relocation to Philadelphia, Bostick resided in West Philadelphia (Ward 24) at 4022 Ludlow Street (late 1860s), then 3740 Market Street (early 1870s), and finally 3634 Market Street (ca. 1877-). In 1870, he and his wife resided with their three children William Ellwood (b. ca. 1857), Jacob J. (b. ca. 1860), and B. Frank (b. ca. 1864). In 1892, Bostick sold his Market Street properties (where he also resided) to C. W. Rowan and the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. He passed away before 1895, when his wife Sarah J. is listed as a widow in city directories.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
John L. Boswell and "The Columbia Spy," http://www.lancasterhistory.org
Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1867-1895 (intermittently)
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 29, 1892 and April 29, 1900
Emanuel P. Bostick trade card, Private Collection