326B Plaza Road North1


326B Plaza Road North was build in 1930. The designation is Block 2723, Lot 5.2 The census does not give unit letters, so it is not possible to determine, which unit was occupied by whom.3
The occupants of 326B Plaza Road North were:

#1. William M. Dupree (from 1930 to 1931.)
The monthly rent in 1930 was $56.-.4

William M. Dupree was born in 1854 in New York.4 William M. Dupree (1) married NN (his age at 1st marriage was 21) in 1875.4 William M. Dupree (2) married Annie.4 Wm. M. Du Pree appeared on the 1930 Census as the head of household at 326B Plaza Road North, with Annie as wife.4 William M. Dupree was in 1930 a building superintendent, but in 1931 a painter.4,1 He owned a radio in 1930.4 Annie was born in 1866 in Maine.4 Annie Du Pree married NN in 1883. Her age at 1st marriage was 17.4


#2. John B. Wilson (from 1935 to 1939.)

John B. Wilson was born in 1898 in Maryland.5 John B. Wilson married Isabel N.6,5 John was a clerk, and later an inspector at the with the Port Authority in New York. In the 1940 census he was listed as a shift foreman at the Lincoln Tunnel.7,5,8 Isabel was born in 1898 in Pennsylvania.5 John and Isabel had 2 daughters: Isabel Kate and Martha.5
The New York Times, 6 October 1933, pg. 17.
     John Shaw Billings Wilson is the son of William Hanna Wilson and Kate Billings Wilson. William died in 1898. Kate died 5 Oct 1933 in New York City of a heart attack. She was the organizer and first librarian of the Census Library in Washington, now the library of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Kate’s father was John Shaw Billings, the first director of the New York Public Library. John S. Billings Wilson is associated with the Port Authority (as is his brother Billings Wilson). He also has three sisters.9
John and Isabel were listed in 1935-9 at 326B Plaza Road North, and in 1940-8 at 6 Allen Place.


#3. Stanley C. Flawn.
     See 333 Plaza Road North for his biography.
The monthly rent in 1940 was $48.10


#4. Mrs. Ann C. Stewart (from 1941 to 1946.)
Mrs. Ann C. Stewart was not married (at least no spouse was listed.)11 No occupation was listed for Mrs. Ann C. Stewart.11


In 1933 it was listed as vacant.

Citations

  1. [S5] 1931 Directory.
  2. [S80] New Jersey Tax Records, online http://www.njtaxrecords.net/
  3. [S1] 1930 Federal Census, T626, Roll 1312, ED 2-66.
  4. [S1] 1930 Federal Census, T626, Roll 1312, ED 2-66: sheet 4A (152), line 17-18.
  5. [S2] 1940 Federal Census, T627: ED 2-87, sheet 9B (1313), line 49-52.
  6. [S7] 1935 Directory.
  7. [S8] 1937 Directory.
  8. [S13] 1948 Directory.
  9. [S76] NY Times, Oct 6, 1933. p. 17. Obituary Kate Billings Wilson.
  10. [S2] 1940 Federal Census, T627: ED 2-87, sheet 2A (1306), line 27-29.
  11. [S10] 1941 Directory.