Ebenerzer Ross lived here in 1891. The July 13, 1900 issue of the Toledo News-Bee advertised the ten-room house at 230 Floyd for rent.  Interested parties were asked to apply at the premised of N. DeBree Jr. at the Postal Telegraph Office. The 1896 and 1900 Polk city directories listed Nathan Degree who lived at this address as the manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company at 412 Madison.  Nathan DeBree Jr., an operator at that same establishment, boarded here in 1896 as did William DeBree, a telephone operator at W. G. Alexander.  Mary DeBree, a bookkeeper, boarded here in 1900.  The 1910 directory listed nurse Adelia English as working and boarding here,