Title |
Zell, Christian |
Date |
b. ca. 1830 |
Description |
Christian Zell, born ca. 1830 in Maryland, worked as a painter in Baltimore before moving to Philadelphia and opening a retail
liquor store. It is probable that he was accidentally listed as a lithographer operating at 510 South Fifteenth Street in
the Philadelphia Business Directory for 1859. Every other directory between the years 1858 and 1868, along with IRS tax assessment
information, list him as a tavern keeper or retail liquor store owner at 510 South Eighteenth Street.
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The 1850 census indicates Zell lived in Baltimore with his brother Henry (b. ca. 1833), in Josiah G. Keller's household in
Ward 19. On November 3, 1850, Zell married Eleanor McGleun and by 1860, they lived in Ward 7 in Philadelphia with four children:
Amelia (b. ca. 1849), Henry (b. ca. 1851), Josiah (b. ca. 1855) and Christiana (b. ca. 1858). Ten years later, Zell resided
again with Josiah Keller in Baltimore with sons Henry and John (b. ca. 1861) and worked as a painter.
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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 and 1870 |
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Groce & Wallace, 711 |
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Philadelphia City Directories 1858-1868 (intermittently) |