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kneedeepincynade · 1 year

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I propose a toast to Xi Jinping leader of the free world for his re-election as chairman! His leadership has led China into a glorious and shining future and now he shall lead the free world there as well!

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⚠️ XI JINPING È STATO RIELETTO PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA POPOLARE CINESE E DELLA COMMISSIONE MILITARE CENTRALE ⚠️

🇨🇳 Oggi, 10 marzo, il Compagno Xi Jinping - Segretario Generale del Partito Comunista Cinese - è stato rieletto, al 14° Congresso Nazionale del Popolo, come Presidente della Repubblica Popolare Cinese e della Commissione Militare Centrale ⭐️

🚩 Il Presidente Cinese ha prestato il Giuramento:

💬 "Mi impegno a essere fedele alla Costituzione della Repubblica Popolare Cinese, salvaguardare l'Autorità della Costituzione, adempiere ai miei obblighi legali, essere fedele al Paese e al Popolo, essere impegnato e onesto nel mio dovere, accettare la supervisione del Popolo e lavorare per un Grande Paese Socialista Moderno che sia Prospero, Forte, Democratico, Culturalmente Avanzato, Armonioso e Bello. Io, Xi Jinping, faccio questo Giuramento" 🇨🇳

💕 Dopodiché, il Presidente Cinese si è inchinato di fronte ai Delegati del Congresso e all'Emblema della Repubblica Popolare 🇨🇳

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⚠️ XI JINPING RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION ⚠️

🇨🇳 Today, March 10, Comrade Xi Jinping - General Secretary of the Communist Party of China - was re-elected, at the 14th National People's Congress, as President of the People's Republic of China and of the Central Military Commission ⭐️

🚩 The Chinese President took the Oath:

💬 "I pledge to be faithful to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, safeguard the Authority of the Constitution, fulfill my legal obligations, be loyal to the country and the People, be committed and honest in my duty, accept the People's supervision, and work for a Great Modern Socialist Country that is Prosperous, Strong, Democratic, Culturally Advanced, Harmonious and Beautiful. I, Xi Jinping, take this Oath" 🇨🇳

💕 After that, the Chinese President bowed to the Congress Delegates and the Emblem of the People's Republic 🇨🇳

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terrycooke · 2 years

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20th Party Congress: The Global Stakes

As we await Sunday’s introduction of the official lineup for the 25-person Politburo, the 7-person Standing Committee, the Premier and the President over the next five years, what has already become clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone all in on Xi Jinping. While the field might possibly look somewhat different at the next Party Congress, we can already trace the broad outlines…

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#20th Congress #ccp #Xi Jinping

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 year

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happy happy hippos🦛🦛🦛

Detail from a woodcut illustration in Men and Creatures in Uganda by Sir John Bland-Sutton (British, 1855-1936), 1933, p. 46.

[Library of Congress/World Digital Library Collection]

#hippos #hippopotamus #Uganda #illustration #book illustration #woodcut #20th century #1930s #World Digital Library #Library of Congress #animals in art

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xieyaohuan · 2 years

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Interrupting my blorbo love posting to briefly talk about my most annoying obsession of all - PRC politics - and DAMN, Xi Jinping having his predecessor dragged out of the meeting WAS NOT ON MY PARTY CONGRESS BINGO CARD.

They did this in front of the international cameras. I want everybody who reads this to understand that this is BATSHIT FUCKING CRAZY. I never speculate about Chinese elite politics, but I might start anonymously speculating away on this hellsite because FUCK. (Also, we're all doomed, but we already were before so eh)

#chinese politics #20th Party Congress #HOLY SHIT #Hu Jintao #Xi jinping #if you think the UK is crazy rn THIS SHIT HERE IS CRAZIER #It doesn't even compare #I know nobody gaf about Chinese politics but FUCK #(If someone had suggested to put this on my bingo card I would have laughed at them and told them they're just trying to prevent me)#(from winning this bingo)

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tenth-sentence · 1 month

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The company refused, and the Trades Union Congress decided that the strike could not be won and withdrew support.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #trades union congress #betrayal #on strike #70s #1970s #20th century

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jdunlevy · 1 year

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Colosseum, Meta Sudans, and the Arch of Constantine in Rome, around the last decade of the 19th Century or turn of the 20th Century (“[The Colisuem and Meta Sudans, Rome, Italy]” Photograph. Detroit, Mich: Detroit Publishing Co., c1890-c1900. From Library of Congress: Photochrome Prints. https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.06599/)

The Meta Sudans … was a large monumental conical fountain in ancient Rome.

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The ruins of Meta Sudans survived until the 20th century. In 1936 Benito Mussolini had its remains wantonly demolished and paved over to make room for the new traffic circle around the Colosseum. A commemorative plaque was set in the road.

“Meta Sudans,” Wikipedia

#Meta Sudans #Rome #Colosseum #Arch of Constantine #20th Century #19th Century #1936 #ruins #Benito Mussolini #photography #history #Wikipedia #Library of Congress #Detroit Publishing Co.

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jovialbasementbouquetblr · 1 year

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PRC Taiwan Office Liu Jieyi: Party's Strategy for Taiwan Issue in the New Era

PRC Taiwan Office Liu Jieyi: Party’s Strategy for Taiwan Issue in the New Era

This article appeared on the Aisixiang website on December 1, 2022. You can view the Aisixiang website machine-translated into English via Google Translate. You can click through to articles if you like and those articles will also be translated. Be careful; machine translation is not always reliable. Aisixiang also has a collection of articles on Taiwan by Chinese officials and scholars; via…

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#20th Party Congress #aisixiang #China #Chinese #Liu Jieyi #national reunification #PRC #reunification #Taiwan #unification #Xi Jinping #共产党 #中国

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kneedeepincynade · 1 year

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It appears things are changing in China, will people finally shut up about "revisionism" now or do we still have to listen to gonzaloid nonsense

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⚠️ RIFORMA ISTITUZIONALE DEL PARTITO COMUNISTA CINESE E DELLO STATO: VERSO LA "COMMISSIONE CENTRALI PER GLI AFFARI INTERNI" SECONDO LA STRUTTURA DELL'NKVD SOVIETICA? ⚠️

🇷🇺 Così come in Unione Sovietica vi era il KGB, ovvero il "Comitato per la Sicurezza dello Stato", in Cina vi è il Guójiā Ānquán Bù, ovvero il "Ministero per la Sicurezza dello Stato" 🚩

🇨🇳 Dopo il 20° Congresso Nazionale del Partito Comunista Cinese, il Compagno Chen Wenqing, all'epoca Direttore del Guójiā Ānquán Bù, è stato promosso a Membro del 20° Ufficio Politico, e - il 23 ottobre - è stato promosso a Segretario della Commissione Centrale per gli Affari Politici e Legali del Partito Comunista Cinese, e il Compagno Chen Yixin ha assunto il ruolo di Direttore del Guójiā Ānquán Bù ⭐️

🇷🇺 Ulteriore premessa, prima di arrivare al "succo" del post: dal 1917 al 1930, nella Repubblica Socialista Federativa Sovietica Russa, fu attiva l'NKVD, ovvero il "Commissariato del Popolo per gli Affari Interni" 🚩

🇨🇳 Dal 26/02 al 28/02, si terrà la 2ª Sessione Plenaria del 20° Comitato Centrale del Partito Comunista Cinese, in cui verrà discusso un Progetto di Riforma del Partito Comunista e delle Istituzioni Statali, ed è stato deciso dal 20° Ufficio Politico che sarà rivisto secondo i pareri raccolti durante l'incontro, e sottoposto alla Sessione Plenaria per la deliberazione ufficiale 🧾

🌟 Durante l'incontro, è stato discusso un elenco di candidati proposti per i ruoli dirigenziali delle Istituzioni Statali da presentare alla 1ª Sessione del 14° Congresso Nazionale del Popolo, nonché un elenco per la Guida del Comitato Nazionale della Conferenza Consultiva Politica del Popolo Cinese per la 1ª Sessione 🚩

🏛 Il Collettivo Shaoshan tratterà la Sessione del 14° Congresso Nazionale del Popolo in maniera approfondita, ma - per ora - è interessante analizzare questo articolo di "China Times", consigliatomi da un Compagno Cinese 🇨🇳

🤔 Secondo l'articolo, è possibile che - nel Piano di Riforma Istituzionale del Partito e dello Stato - il Guójiā Ānquán Bù e il Gōng'ānbù (Ministero della Pubblica Sicurezza) vengano «separati» dal Consiglio di Stato, e trasferiti alla neonata "Commissione Centrale per gli Affari Interni", simile - nella struttura - all'NKVD 🇷🇺

🤔 Tale Commissione potrebbe essere presieduta da Wang Xiaohong - Ministro della Pubblica Sicurezza e membro del 20° Comitato Centrale del Partito Comunista Cinese 🚩

🤔 Ciò che ancora non è chiaro - riferisce l'autore dell'articolo - riguarda il possibile e futuro rapporto tra la "Commissione Centrale per gli Affari Interni" e la "Commissione Centrale per gli Affari Politici e Legali", e se anche la funzione di Intelligence Estera del Guójiā Ānquán Bù verrà inserita nella nuova Commissione 🤔

🤔 Secondo l'autore dell'articolo, una figura fondamentale di questa Riforma Istituzionale sarebbe il Compagno Chen Xi, Direttore del Dipartimento d'Organizzazione del CC del Partito Comunista Cinese 🚩

📊 2.977 Deputati sono stati eletti per il 14° Congresso Nazionale del Popolo, che sarà uno degli eventi più importanti del 2023 non solo per la Cina, ma per l'intero mondo, dato che cambieranno molte cariche, tra cui quella di Primo Ministro 🇨🇳

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⚠️ INSTITUTIONAL REFORM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA AND THE STATE: TOWARDS THE "CENTRAL INTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION" ACCORDING TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE SOVIET NKVD? ⚠️

🇷🇺 Just as in the Soviet Union there was the KGB, or the "Committee for State Security", in China there is the Guójiā Ānquán Bù, or the "Ministry for State Security" 🚩

🇨🇳 After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Comrade Chen Wenqing, Director of Guójiā Ānquán Bù at the time, was promoted to Member of the 20th Political Bureau, and - on October 23rd - was promoted to Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China, and Comrade Chen Yixin assumed the role of Director of Guójiā Ānquán Bù ⭐️

🇷🇺 Further premise, before getting to the "juice" of the post: from 1917 to 1930, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the NKVD, or the "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs" was active 🚩

🇨🇳 From 26/02 to 28/02, the 2nd Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be held, in which a Reform Project of the Communist Party and State Institutions will be discussed, and it was decided by the 20th Political Bureau which will be reviewed according to the opinions collected during the meeting, and submitted to the Plenary Session for official deliberation 🧾

🌟 During the meeting, a list of proposed candidates for the leadership roles of state institutions to be submitted to the 1st Session of the 14th National People's Congress was discussed, as well as a list for the National Committee Leadership of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for the 1th Session 🚩

🏛 The Shaoshan Collective will cover the Session of the 14th National People's Congress in depth, but - for now - it is interesting to analyze this article from "China Times", recommended to me by a Chinese Comrade 🇨🇳

🤔 According to the article, it is possible that - in the Institutional Reform Plan of the Party and the State - the Guójiā Ānquán Bù and the Gōng'ānbù (Ministry of Public Security) will be "separated" from the State Council, and transferred to the newly formed " Central Internal Affairs Commission", similar - in structure - to the NKVD 🇷🇺

🤔 This commission could be chaired by Wang Xiaohong - Minister of Public Security and member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 🚩

🤔 What is still not clear - reports the author of the article - concerns the possible and future relationship between the "Central Commission for Internal Affairs" and the "Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs", and if also the function of Foreign Intelligence of Guójiā Ānquán Bù will be included in the new Commission 🤔

🤔 According to the author of the article, a key figure of this Institutional Reform would be Comrade Chen Xi, Director of the Organization Department of the CC of the Communist Party of China 🚩

📊 2,977 MPs were elected for the 14th National People's Congress, which will be one of the most important events of 2023 not only for China, but for the whole world, as many positions will change, including that of Prime Minister

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terrycooke · 2 years

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3rd Inning Score: CCP National Congress

The Fat Lady won’t be singing in Beijing until Sunday but we know who’s in the lead after three innings. In the deciding game of this once-every-five year series, the Emperor For Life team currently holds a two-to-nothing lead over Court of Rivals Team. Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of…

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packedwithpackards · 1 year

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Blood, sweat, and tears of the Irish: The story of Mary, Ellen, and Bridget [Part 1]

1860 census document that lists the three Irish servants in the Packard household

Last week I wrote about John H. Packard, beginning with a letter by a Union soldier and ending with a discussion of how he was a renowned surgeon, at a time that the use of "pathological anatomy remained remote from most areas of practical medicine" and the reform of the medical field had not happened yet (it would occur after the Civil War). He had a personal estate worth $5,000. That has an inflated worth, according to Measuring Worth, of about $161,400 today, putting him in the top 10% (or even higher) today, if we use calculations from CNN Money. Like anyone in a respected profession such as his, he got there by standing on the backs of others. What he did would have been impossible without the labor of others. This is made clear in the 1860 census for Philadelphia's Eighth Ward, which lists, as I noted in that article, three Irish servants. [1] They are Mary Hassan, a 47-year-old woman, Ellen McBride, a 25-year-old woman, and Bridget Welsh, a 22-year-old woman. They are called "domestics." As people's historian Howard Zinn wrote in A People's History of the United States, they came at a time that immigrants from Ireland were "fleeing starvation there when the potato crop failed," coming to the United States, packed into "old sailing ships."

Before getting into the specific histories of Mary, Ellen, and Bridget, I'd like to give some historical context beyond what Zinn has pointed out. Immigrant women who came from Europe often became domestic servants, sometimes in a state of debt peonage, especially Irish women because they often spoke English. They were paid with low wages, with many families hiring them, with the wealthiest hiring ten or more at a time, with these servants cleaning houses, caring for children, cooking meals, and other tasks deemed "domestic." Many would begin a 4-7 year labor term, and if they fled they would be tracked down, or could even be sexually assaulted. As historian Andrew Turban points out, [2] before 1920, the majority of the servants in Boston, Philly, and New York City was comprised of Irish women, who were replaced by Black women from the South beginning in 1920, when the Great Migration picked up. Unmarried Irish women especially served as a "crucial economic lifeline for family members who remained in Ireland." One travel writer, writing in 1864, observed that "vast numbers of Irish girls had found employment as servants in families." [3]

These Irish women were among the "hundreds of thousands of indentured servants" who traveled to North America from the 1600s to the 1800s, one of the many waves of migration to the content. While labor from enslaved African laborers took the place of indentured servants in West Indian colonies controlled by the British by the 19th century, indentured servitude was still an important institution in the Atlantic World itself. [4] Some have even argued that without domestic servants it would have "been impossible to run a 19th century urban home" while the Library of Congress notes that many Irish women became domestic workers or servants, while Irish men labored in coal mines or built canals (like John Mills, maybe?) and railroads. In terms of Philly itself, in 1857, three years before the 1860 census which listed Mary, Ellen, and Bridget, Irish immigrants were integrated into the city itself and became "proof of the American promise that hard work, skill, and persistence could ultimately lead to remarkable achievement." In Philly, many of these servants lived in overcrowded rowhouses, with the words servant and Irish becoming synonymous almost, and were often demeaned by the wealthy families they worked for.

Even so, as should be clearly stated, indentured servitude was NOT the same as enslavement, which some members of the Packard family were involved in, as I've noted in past posts on this blog. Originally, indentured servitude came out of a "need for cheap labor" but landowners soon turned to enslaved Africans as the cost of indentured servants increased. As the Institute of Black World describes it, that while they are both forms of chattel bondage, "indentured servants expected to be in bondage for a set number of years, and then freed." As others pointed out, indentured servitude was not lifelong or hereditary like enslavement of Black people, with White servants having legal rights and were not considered property. As such, there were not "White slaves" as Liam Hogan rightly argues on the topic. It is a myth that some have bought into to benefit their ideological aims, especially reactionary groups in the United States, and others who should know better.

Furthermore, as Rebecca Gatz points out, many domestic servants in Philly in 1800 were "immigrants who were sold into servitude on their arrival" in order to pay for their passage, although many became servants "usually for a term of four years." These servants were a "permanent feature of middle class families in 19th century America," often single Irish women, who had a "favorable bargaining position," as noted by historian Laura D. Kelley. Some were able to get concessions like the ability to practice their Catholic faith and since room and board were provided, these servants often sent money back to their families in Ireland, and maintained their "own financial security with remarkable success," gaining wages, having safe living conditions, and food to eat. Even so, they were still exploited by those they worked for, in terms of their labor and skills, although they received higher wages, along with other benefits, than those who worked in factories at the time. In Pennsylvania, in 1860, female servants received monthly wages of $7.88, coming to a total of $94.56 per year, with servants in New York and New Jersey paid slightly more per month, $8.33 and $9.55 respectfully. [5] This compared to laborers who had a wage of $5.88 an hour or machinists who had a wage of $9.48 an hour the same year. According to Measuring Worth, the amount earned by servants in one year ($94.56) would have an inflated worth of $3,053.01 and a relative income worth of $22,929.23, at the low end, and $43,527.76 at the high end.

With that, let me move back to Mary, Ellen, and Bridget. We know, from the federal census, that they were living, in 1860, in the Eighth Ward of Philly. According to The Library Company of Philadelphia's Philadelphia on Stone project, the Eighth Ward, after the consolidation of Philly in 1854, was "between Schuylkill River and Seventh, Spruce, and Chestnut streets." Using a map from the Free Library of Philadelphia's Map Collection, in 1865, we find a map of the whole ward. Its amazing, I'd say. While the Philly Department of Records has a map of the city's wards in 1854, it is an inaccessible image which is small and cannot be examined in detail, sadly.

Sadly, the map is blurry, so zooming in did not help and neither did some other maps of the ward (including this one) unfortunate to say.

They were, from my research, living in a building on 1924 Spruce Street, where John H. Packard lived until the early 1900s. [6] While those records point to residence there in the later 19th century, it appears he lived there before, because the Daily Evening Bulletin posted a message in April 1864 where he listed his office as 1225 Spruce Street as a Medical Examiner. [7] This is supported by papers with similar notices the same year. While I know that the "Packard Residence" of one John H. Packard in Chestnut Hill is not him, as that is in the wrong part of Philly, I did find an image of the dwelling as it looked in 1896, according to The Athenaeum of Philadelphia:

Using the PhilGeoHistory Maps Viewer I was able to find more about where they were living. This resource showed me that the house was near a paper factory, down the street from a lumber yard and church, and over 17 blocks (eastward) from what I believe is the hospital. Packard himself was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, as an appeal in June 1871 indicates, where he, and others, advocated for money to build a new hospital near the university.

The black dot indicates where the house was located

Now that we know where they lived, what about the lives of Mary, Ellen, and Bridget specifically? Unlike in England where there was a servant hierarchy, these three women were domestic servants who helped around the house. Taking the assumption that all three women stayed in Philly before and after 1850, that eliminates many false drops I uncovered in searches through digitized records on FamilySearch. [8]

With Mary, it was tough as the name "Mary Hassen" is a somewhat common, leading to issues like having two Mary Hassens in Philly's Seventh Ward in 1870. [9] One is living on the north side of Lombard Street, [10] and the other on the south side of Naudain Street. [11] Of these two individuals, both are equally likely. Lombard Street is only a mile away (or seven blocks southward, after traveling one block westward) from 1924 Spruce Street. Naudain Street is less than half-a-mile away, which translates to only eight blocks southward, after traveling one block westward. Whichever one of those is the Mary who was a servant of the Packard family in 1860, is clear she stayed in the same area of Philly. The 1880 census makes this clear, listing a person who is mostly likely her. [12]

Operating with that assumption, in this census, she is noted as "keeping house," referring to "domestic" work within a household, with another family, possibly meaning that she is still a servant. She would be living at 1224 Haines Street, which was over 23 miles north from the Spruce Street residence where she had lived in 1860, joined by various boarders from Ireland: 35-year-old James Brown, 50-year-old J. McIntyre, 50-year-old Ellen McIntyre (wife of J.), and 40-year-old Andrew Lacy (and his two children, 38-year-old James and 8-year-old Mary), to name a few. A 48-year-old woman named Ellen Hassett was the head of the household, living there along with her two daughters (Mary and Sarah), and three sons (George, John, and Charles). There is also a death record of a "Mary Hasson" in 1900 but I think it would be too presumptive to say that it is her.

While it is hard to extrapolate details of Mary Hassen's life from the federal census documents, it is more possible to do so for Ellen McBride. In 1870 she was still living in the Eighth Ward of Philly. She was a domestic servant for the family headed by 57-year-old man named Alfred Stillé, a Doctor of Medicine whose real estate was worth $45,000 and personal estate worth $55,000. In the same household were three other domestic servants from Ireland: 45-year-old man named James Cole, 50-year-old woman named Sarah Cole (wife of James), and a 30-year-old woman named Rose McBride. [13]

Considering that Rose has the same surname as Ellen, it is possible that Rose is her sister. The same page of the census lists families led by stockbrokers (John W. Freed), Doctors of Medicine (Addinell Hewson), a presumed widow (Mary V. Vertz), and another doctor (John Ross) as their neighbors. Also in the household was Alfred's 55-year-old wife, Caroline C., and their 20-year-old son, Louis, a student of medicine. If you add his real estate and personal estate together, it would come to a total of $100,000, which is an inflated worth of over $2.1 million, as of today, according to Measuring Worth! [14] As such, he would, using a Forbes calculator in October 2019, be in the top 6.67% in today's standards.

They were living at a house numbered 920, possibly on Spruce Street. I say Spruce Street because Stillé's obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1900 says that he died at 3900 Spruce Street. The same obituary calls him a "venerable professor of theory and practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania" and says that his wife was Katherine A. Blakiston, who he married in 1899, meaning that Katherine was his second wife. The obituary claims that Caroline, who is listed in the census was "insane" even when he remained devoted to her, and that she died six weeks before he married Katherine, with obtiary claiming that "only death released him from the burden he had borne for years." The obituary goes on to call him "one of the most honored names in the role of America's medical and scientific leaders." Philadelphia newspapers also noted that he published a book on medical law in 1860, was on the Sanitary Commission in the city in 1862, and did medical lectures at the Philadelphia Hospital in 1866. [15]

Clearly, he was a prominent fellow in Philly. The fact that he had servants, like Ellen, means that he could only do what he did because of the labor of others. This is an important fact to point out, because biographies of him from the American Medical Association, in William Osler's American Medical Biographies, or University of Pennsylvania do not mention it. These biographies, however, do say that his wife, Caroline Christiana Barnett, had mental illness and was in an asylum for FIFTY YEARS! Writing a post on her is a subject for another day. Anyway, it is sad that we know more about Stillé than the servants in his household, like Ellen McBride. There are five Ellen McBrides in Philadelphia in 1880, but I don't believe that any of them are the same as the Ellen I have described in this article. We do know, however, that Rose remained a domestic servant, as she is listed in that role in the 1880 census in a household headed by Richard Zeckwer, a German-born music teacher, with him, his family, and others at 154 Pine Street, but Ellen is not with her. [16] Zeckwer was a prominent man in the city's coeity, as he started the Philadelphia Music Academy with three other musicians in 1870 and was director of this same academy from 1876 to 1917, which was located on Spruce Street. The mystery deepens and I'm not sure where to look next in order to piece together her life a little more. If you wish to continue the search, go here. I would welcome your discoveries on that front. There are other Rose McBrides I found in my searches, but I can't sure if any of them are her.

We finally get to Bridget Welsh. She likely immigrated in 1857 as person of that name is listed on Philly passenger lists for that year. [17] Discarding the tavern keeper with her name in Philly in 1880, she would have been the servant in the household of Annie E. Massey in Philly the same year. [18] This record shows her as living in a three-person household, with the only person other than Annie in the house being Annie's sister, a 75-year-old widowed woman named Letita Cresson. All three of them lived at an abode at 50 Arch Street, which is about two miles away from 1924 Spruce Street, as shown in a Google Maps calculation of the distance between both locations. We find her again in 1900, living in the 27th Ward of Philly, still as a servant, and in a family headed by Emile Camille Geyelin, a French-born hydraulics engineer, who is married to Estella Antoinette, adopted daughter of J. Richter Jones. [19] In the household are three other servants: a 61-year-old Irish woman named Lizzie Walsh, a 40-year-old French woman named Louisa Maire, and a 50-year-old English woman named Emma Fellows. It is not known if Elizabeth "Lizzie" Walsh is related to Bridget or that it is a coincidence that both have the same last name. An image of the census is shown below.

They were living on 4227 Chestnut Street, with this street described as a "major historic street" in Philly by Wikipedia as it runs east-west from the waterfront on the Delaware River, through he center of the city, through West Philly, and then crosses the Schuylkill River, and onward from there. This was, reportedly, not far from the Fairmount Waterworks where "one of his turbines was installed." Although I couldn't find anything on Annie E. Massey, I did find that her sister died in 1888, and that Geyelin was an acclaimed engineer who installed water turbines in many cities to improve their water systems, while his great-grandson was Philip Laussat Geyelin, editor of the Washington Post. Like with Stillé, not one of the biographies, whether in Fire Engineering, his obituary in 1900, Volume 18 of Engineers and Engineering, or letters by descendants, ever mentioned that Irish servants in the household he led. This is not a surprise, to be honest, and it makes articles like this one all the more important, to uncover realities which are not acknowledged.

This article has shown that three men (John H. Packard, Alfred Stillé, Emile Camille Geyelin) and two women (Ellen Hassett and Annie E. Massey) in Philly benefited from the labor of Irish women who were deemed "domestics." Again, what they did in their lives would have not been possible without the work of these women. And that should be acknowledged. Of course, my research here is likely only scratching the surface. With that, I'd like to hear your suggestions about what resources and records I should look at next, as I'd like to expand this story into something broader.

Note: This was originally posted on Jan. 14, 2021 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

#servants #packards #genealogy #family history #genealogy research #ancestry #lineage #library of congress #great migration #ireland #boston #philly #new york city #20th century #19th century #immigration #family search #philadelphia

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Today is #GroundhogDay (US), #MarmotDay (Alaska), and #HedgehogDay (Europe), so here is one of each!

1 Groundhog (Marmota monax)

Woodchuck - Arctomys monax* E.K. / L. Prang & Co., 1874 1 print : color lithograph ; sheet 35 x 27.3 cm. Library of Congress *same species; alternate common name and older scientific name

2 Hoary Marmot (Marmota caligata)

HOARY MARMOT, or WHISTLER / Marmota caligata p. 535 in Wild animals of North America, intimate studies of big and little creatures of the mammal kingdom by Edward William Nelson, 1918; illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Biodiversity Heritage Library

3 European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)

Hedgehog and Young Plate I in British land mammals and their habits by Alexander Nicol Simpson, 1911; illustration by C. F. Newall Internet Archive

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