| Title |
Ralston, John |
| Date |
b. ca. 1828 |
| Description |
John Ralston, born ca. 1828 in Ireland worked as a compositor and lithographic printer in Philadelphia ca. 1850-ca. 1857,
including at the establishment of P. S. Duval (8 South Fifth Street) in 1857. During the mid 1850s, he resided in Center City
and at 29 Quince Street (above Eleventh Street and below Locust Street) in 1855 and at 76 South Fifteenth Street in 1857.
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According to the censuses, Ralston lived in a boarding house in the Middle Ward (Center City) in 1850. By 1860 he worked as
a printer in Cincinnati, Oh. and resided with his wife Kate (b. ca. 1829, Ireland) who he presumably married by ca. 1854
since had three children born in Pennsylvania under the age of six.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1860 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1855-1857 (intermittently) |
