Barbara Liebermann

clothing business near South Street, Philadelphia

• Barbara Leiberman
• Residence Year: 1868
• Street Address: 528 S 3d
• Residence Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Publication Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1868

maiden name research

Barbara's estranged husband Paul, who deserted her in 1866, testified in a C.W. pension doc that his wife's maiden name was Litzenburg. No record of a divorce has been found though they lived separately after 1865.

It may do well to research https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90993057/harry-l-litzenberg in Merion

later years

1900: Her home was a modest walkup in the Manayunk section of town down by the Schuylkill River just a few steps away from St. John the baptist Catholic Church. The parish was founded in 1831.
"Philadelphia's textile village of Manayunk rapidly emerged during the 1820s and 30s, completely transforming a quiet bank of the Schuylkill River. Named for a Native-American word, or sound, alleged to mean “where we go to drink,” Manayunk is roughly bounded by Ridge Avenue and the mouth of Wissahickon Creek on the south, Pechin Street on the east, Fountain Street on the north and the Schuylkill River on the west, and includes the Flat Rock Dam and the Manayunk Canal. Manayunk survives to relate an important chapter in the story of the industrial revolution in America and its the physical and historical character of is unique to Philadelphia." "The growing textile production in this new mill town along the Schuylkill attracted families of immigrants from the English, Irish, and German textile regions. Already familiar with mechanized textile mills and the accompanying working conditions, this workforce could literally step from the boat to the mill. The Manayunk textile mill owners actively sought the pool of immigrant labor because it offered another commodity they especially desired, that of the unskilled hands found in the women and children. As a bonus to the owners, older boys and men experienced with the mechanics of the spinners, carders, and mules, were available for the choosing. Families crossed the Atlantic specifically for work in Manayunk and its members, often as young as age seven, entered the mill. The new mill town also drew a population of experienced workers from various American textile mills."

~from Sara Jane Elk, Workshop of the World (Oliver Evans Press, 1990).

===1870 census===

•Home in 1870:

• Philadelphia Ward 5 Dist 14 (2nd Enum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Post Office: No 404 South 5th St
• Immigration Year: 1848
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Marital Status: Single
• Father's Birthplace:Germany
• Mother's Birthplace: Germany
• Burial: {~• unknown date} West Laurel Hill Cemetery Bala Cynwyd Montgomery County
• Plot: Bryn Mawr 237
• Find A Grave Memorial# 91402639