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The ministers on the Gettysburg Circuit supplying the Emmittsburg and Toms Creek church: 1827, Samuel Clark, preacher; George Hildt, assistant. 1828, William O. Lums- don, preacher; T. H. W. Moore, assistant. 1829, Samuel Kemper, preacher; John C. Lyon, assistant. 1830, Jonathan Munroe, preacher; Robert Crooks, assistant. 1831, William Butler, preacher; Stephen Smith, assistant. 1832, William
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Butler, preacher; John L. Pitts, assistant. 1833, Charles B. Young, preacher; J. L. Pitts, assistant. 1834, Charles B. Young, preacher; J. W. Richardson, assistant. 1835, Richard Bond, preacher; Joseph H. Went, assistant. 1836, Richard Bond, preacher; James Brads, assistant. 1837, Amos Smith, preacher; Joseph H. Brown, assistant. 1838, Amos Smith, preacher; John M. Jones, assistant. 1839, Henry Furlong, preacher; John M. Jones, assistant. 1840 and 1841, Josiah Forrest, preacher; Wesley Howe, assistant. 1842, Thomas
McKee, preacher; Henry Hoffman, assistant. 1843, Thomas
McKee, preacher; Thomas Reese, assistant. 1844, Solomon McMullen, preacher; Thomas Reese, assistant. 1845, Solo- mon McMullen, preacher; Thomas Switzer, assistant. 1846 and 1847, Thomas Tanyhill, preacher; R. S. McClay, assist- ant. 1848, Horace Holland, preacher; John Thouch, assist- ant. 1849, Horace Holland, preacher; Beverly Waugh, as-
sistant. 1852,- - Smith; 1853, Jonathan Monroe; 1854,
Harding; 1855, Black; 1856, John Dash and William Earnshaw; 1858, Elias Welty; 1859, L. D. Herron; 1861, R. C. Haslip; 1863, P. B. Reese; 1865, W. H. Keith; 1867, J. D. Moore; 1870, John Montgomery; 1871, J. T. Cross; 1875, George E. Maydwell; 1877, H. P. West; 1880, E. O. Eldridge; 1882, Daniel Haskel; 1884, Geo. M. Berry; 1885, Osburn Belt; 1888, D. Davis; 1890, J. F. F. Grey; 1892, J. C. Starr; 1893, Henry Mann; 1896, M. H. Courtney; 1901, W. L. Orem; 1903, George W. Harris; 1905, Frank Bailey.
William Moreland was the pioneer, although a local preacher, he established Methodism in Emmitsburg and Toms creek; was a land owner as early as 1805, and iden- tified in the community before 1800, no doubt purchased the Toms Creek Church.
In connection with this Methodist church, the Toms creek Methodist church has always been connected with this charge. In 1797 the Methodists living in that locality purchased from the Lutheran and Reformed congregations the old log church, with its hallowed memories dating back
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to 1751. On either side of the church there is a cemetery. On the hill the Lutheran and Reformed churches, where the sad hearts of days long forgotten, laid their friends to rest, no doubt as far back as 1720, some were buried there. Jacob Danner's tomb is the oldest, 1768; it is the oldest in this locality except Mrs. Wm. Elder, 1739, at Clairvoux. Mrs. Jacob Danner, 1782; every evidence there shows it was the earlist burying ground in the northern part of the county; below the church the Methodists have a burying ground. This congregation has kept at the work serving that portion of the community, giving it a religious mould; and without their influence would not be there; their key- note has been:
"As long as the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return."
In 1904 this congregation built a new church on the road leading from the Baltimore road to Maxell's mill, sell- ing the material of the old log church at auction. The ground upon which the new church was built was bought from Elias Valentine.
TOMS CREEK LUTHERAN CEMETERY.
This is the oldest burying ground in this locality. Prior to 1746, when the first patent was recorded, squatters had taken possession of plats of land, centering upon Toms creek location as a central point; hundreds of persons were buried here. The entire acre with little exception is taken up with unmarked graves; as an evidence this was the only burying ground, none of the farms northi, east or west have them, whilst the nearest south is the Close farm.
George Smith, 1720, 1793; Christian Smith, 1720, 1790; Jacob Danner, 1768; Margaret Danner, 1782; Peter Troxell, 1719, 1799; Mrs. Peter Troxell, 1737, 1806; Maria Troxell, 1771, 1794; Michael Row, 1762, 1831; Mrs. Michael Row; 1763, 1842; Jacob Troxell, 1763, 1807; Capt. Michael Sluss, 1785, 1859; John Sluss, 1809, 1890; Isaac Row, 1797, 1841; Frederick Ohler, 1787, 1869; Joseph Crabbs, 1786, 1850; Barthol Waddle, 1787, 1847; John Hockensmith, 1775, 1855;
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Barbara, his wife, 1778, 1842; Wm. Hockensmith, 1813, 1864; S. Oyster, 1792, 1794; John Smith, 1782, 1783; James Ohler, 1801, 1873; Daniel Row, 1806, 1851, George Row, 1755, 1845; Anna May, his wife, 1758, 1838; John Row, 1800, 1873; Agness Row, his wife, 1802, 1380; George Ohler, 1788, 1826; John Hoover, 1771, 1832; Jesse Hoover; Sally Hockensmith, 1814, 1894; Betsy Hockensmith, 1802, 1874.
Following are in the Methodist cemetery: Solomon Krise, 1807, 1887; Elizabeth Nickum, 1770, 1853; Jacob Nickum; Abraham Stanbury, 1769, 1855; William Biggs, 1797, 1876; Amy Biggs, 1804, 1848; John Fuss, 1835, 1900; John Smith, 1764, 1825; William Moser, 1811, 1881; Frederick Crabbs, 1774, 1851; David Crabbs, 1761, 1827; Elizabeth Hoover, 1744, 1833; David Morrison, 1802, 1866; Prudence Morrison, his wife; Samuel Smith, 1802, 1830; William Gilson, 1830, 1892; Mrs. William Gilson, 1836, 1875; Richard Gilson, 1795, 1874; Mrs. R. Gilson, 1800, 1873; Susan Harbaugh, 1782, 1869; John Munshower and wife.
In the Zimmerman cemetery in Adams County, Pa., three miles north of town, were buried in the colonial days the dead of that locality; many graves are unmarked, from whom the sturdy stock of the present generation descended. Such as it required to build a nation-the Overholtzers, Eikers, Zimmermans, Bakers, Rhodes and Cochrans.
INDIAN BURIAL PLACE.
The only Indian burial place accurately known in this lo- cality is on the Gilson farin; about seventy-five years ago the graves were ploughed over. This sacred spot to the red man yielded quite a quantity of skulls and bones. An eye witness who had gone to inspect the war relics and mayhap get a skull, found them in such condition that he procured a few teeth only.
BOYLE'S GRAVE.
One grave, the body of - Boyle, who rests in the upper corner of the lot now owned by Jolin Vance, he died near Frederick. When brought home interment was re- fused in the Roman Catholic cemetery. Dr. Patterson owned .this lot and gave a resting place to Boyle.
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EMMITSBURG.
Samuel Emmit after laying out the town August 12th, 1785, deeded to his son William, 35 acres of land as fol- lows: Samuel Emmit to his son William, part of Carrols- burg, wherein the lots of a new town of Emmitsburg are laid out. Excepting five lots, to wit: No. I to Samuel Em- mit's wife; No. 17 to son Josiah; No. 16 to daughter Mary ; No. 4 to son Abraham James; No. 10 to grandchild Wm. Porter.
The following lots were sold to persons named for, price two pounds, ten shillings. Ground rent seven shillings, six pence in gold:
No. 1. Mrs. Samuel Emmit; 2. Michael Row; 3. Samuel Caldwell, York County, Pa .; 4. Abraham James Emmit; 5. Jacob Hockensmith; 6. Conrad Hockenrmith; 7. Chris- tian Smith; 8. Patrick Reid; 9. John Whitmore; 10. Wm. Porter; 11. James Hughs; 12. Adam Hoffman; 13. John
Rogers; 14. ; 15. Charles Robinson; 16. Mary
Emmit; 17. Josiah Emmit; 18. ; 19. Samuel
Carrick; 20. Margaret McDannel; 21. - -; 22.
Michael Smith; 23. James Agnew; 24. Daniel Gonden; 25.
-; 26. Michael Hockensmith; 27. Richard Jen-
nings; 28. James Hughs; 29. David Tanner; 30. James Lar-
-; kins; 31. Jacob Tanner; 32. - ; 33. -
34. John Lock alias Sluss; 35. ~; 36. Robert Wrench; 37. --; 38. -; 39. The man that proposed calling the town Emwitsburg; John McGor- gan. 46.
The original lay-out of the town was from lot No. I, the lot upon which Quincy Shoemaker's shop stands, then west to the alley where C. T. Zacharias' house stands, then across to J. A. Helman, then east to John Hospleliorn's house. Samuel Emmit then made a deed to his son Wil- liam for 35 acres; he continued the extension from the west end to the east line of the land sold to Wm. Shields in Sept., 1787, when it is supposed Emmit added his addition to connect with Shields and the eastern from the lot No .. I
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to the eastern extent. All the land on both sides of the town was laid out in building lots from Flat Run to the run on south side, as the plat made by Andrew Smith in 1808 shows.
These lots were in possession of such men as John Trox- ell, Lewis Weaver, Patrick Reid, Jacob Danner, John Arm- strong, Frederick Gelwicks, Henry Fahnestock, Robert Flemming, Lewis Motter, Jacob Winter, Andrew White, and John Hughs. The lot lines were obliterated and the land was used for farming, continuing in that relation ever since.
An agreement between Samuel Emmit, Henry Williams, John Troxell and Jacob Hockensmith, upon the line of Carrollsburg as surveyed by L. Brengle, county surveyor, November 3rd, 1791. One line runs near James Jannise's old cabin, where the trees are marked with the Indian eyes and mouth, then through a bottom of Samuel Emmit's, too long made use of by old Hockensmith and his son Jacob, on Middle creek.
Item .- Samuel Caldwell may remember the nineteenth line of Carrollsburg, where he was almost knocked down by an axe that flew off its handle December Ist, 1785.
Item .- Deed made by Lewis Motter to George Smith, March 27th, 1802, for brick house along Frederick road.
ADDITION TO EMMITSBURG.
May 20th, 1786. Samuel Emmit to his son William, 55 acres of land in addition and adjoining the land deeded August 12th, 1785, part of Carrollsburg tract, to extend the limits of the new town, now Emmitsburg.
EMMITSBURG.
Samuel Emmit, the founder of Emmitsburg, nationality Irish, took out a patent May 17th, 1757, for 2,250 acres of land. He was not the earliest settler in this section, but lie was a far-seeing man, and used his intelligence, know- ing towns would be a nucleus for a community, he early sold off lots of land to incoming persons, and established a centre here, in this beautiful valley, which has afforded so
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many returning descendants of the pioneers, as well as strangers pleasure to sniff the fresh, fragrant air that in- vigorates the spirit of the depressed. One good father in the Roman Catholic church when asked how he liked his new field of labor (he had been removed to Germantown), replied, "Heaven first, Emmitsburg next." We may seek other places and decry our own, but no where on the earth will you find more beautiful surroundings. The landscape could not be improved, the health resorts are no better. The genial clime of the 39th degree, with the exception of an occasional blizzard, which all sections are heir to; neither heat nor cold become excessive, a happy medium reigns. We know it. Do we appreciate it? The moun- tains hard by are a protection, many storms miss us, they are divided by these mountains; we see them as they flee away to the north or south. There is honor due Mr. Emmit for his perception and selection of such a truly lovely spot. Is it not the theme of the graduate as she pens her verses for the great day of her life, and deplores her departure from the shadow of Carrick's Knob? Do we not, with it in view from our infancy, stand and gaze upon it, not only when it is covered with leaves, but in its bar- renness, and when the snow covers its peak, and we await the rising moon to increase its splendor. When we ascend its Indian look out and gaze over the landscape, taking in the range of the mountain, then following the course of old Toms creek, in our vision we behold the grandeur of the valley as it lies beneath our feet, filled with the well- cared-for buildings and productive farms. There is a halo of satisfaction around every life, but to him who has proper appreciation of great and grand scenery, he can feast to his fullness here. Yea, if he has not seen the beauties, let him visit some locality where all is level for a hundred miles, and his eye will tire at the sameness of the place, and he will long for the hills and valleys to reinstate him in favor with himself.
This town was laid out in 1785. In was known as Pop- lar Fields prior to that date, when at a public meeting held
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at Hockensmith's Tavern (the farm now owned by Meade Fuss), John McGorgan was called to the chair. He pro- posed to change the name from Poplar Fields to Emmits- burg, in honor of Samuel Emmit, one of the largest land- holders in the district. All persons threw up their hats, clapped their hands and hurrahed for Emmitsburg.
The company had quite a merry time, having drank the health of the newly baptized town; they returned home full of sanguine expectation as to the rapid growth of the infant settlement. The population at this time consisted of seven families: Capt. Richard Jennings, merchant; Adamı Hoff- man, hatter; John Rogers, tavern keeper; Michael Smith, blacksmith; Frederick Baird, carpenter; James and Joseph Hughs, merchant and architect.
Capt. Richard Jennings built the first house, a one-story log house, on the lot No. 27, now owned by Eugene E. Zim- merman. The first brick house was built adjoining this log house by Capt. Jennings, known later as the Otter tav- ern; James and Joseph Hughs built on lot No. 28 where the Spangler house now stands, and lot No. II where the bank and Elder's drug store stands. Lot No. 12, Adamn Hoff- man, hatter, built a log house where Philip Lawrence lives; lot No. 13, John Rogers, tavern keeper, built the log house where Mrs. F. A. Adelsberger lives; lot No. 22, Michael Smith, blacksmith, built the house now Michael Hoke's; lot No. 24, the present Presbyterian parsonage, was built by Frederick Baird; said to be the third brick house built in town; lot No. 29, the large brick house burned in fire of 1863, was built by Jolin Troxell. The lots left by Samuel Emmit by will to his wife and children are No. I to his wife, where Kerrigan's shop stands; lot No. 4 to his son Abraham James, the lot of Wm. Lansinger; lot Io to his grandchild, Wm. Porter, the lot where Dr. C. D. Eichel- berger live, Rotering and Charles Zeck occupy; lot 16 to daugher Mary, the lot now owned by E. Payne; lot 17 to his his son Josiah, the lot where the Reformed church stands. Abraham James Emmit lived in house No. 126, the house now owned by Mrs. George Gillelan, where he died. Wmn.
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Emmit was the executor of his father, a magistrate, a bach- elor. . Deeds are still in existence with his signature at- tached.
EMMIT FAMILY.
Samuel Emmit, an Irish emigrant, in company with Win. Shields, who was married to his sister, came into this locality and took out patents for lands May 17th, 1757; they were not the earliest settlers; they were of the num- ber coming with the third influx, 1730, 1746, 1757. Amongst this third was Key, the father of the national song; the men coming at this period proved to be strong men, as their descendants have evidenced. Samuel Emmit and wife are buried in the Presbyterian cemetery in un- marked graves. Come with me to that hallowed spot where so many of the early settiers sleep, and drop a tear on these lonely graves, not for Mr. Emmit, but for the regret. Over a hundred years has witnessed the changing seasons, yet no man felt interested enough to place a tablet to Emmit's memory. I solicit a contribution of ten cents from each reader of the History of Emmitsburg towards a marker to the memory of Samuel Eminit and wife. Their family consisted of the following children:
Agnes, married Wm. Porter; William, bachelor, died 1817, dropped dead. Mary, Abraham James, Josiah, 1765, June 29th, 1821; Abigail, 1774, February 15th, 1838; children of Abraham James; John, 1811, 1847; Jane married Joseph Crooks 1806, 1858; Mary married - McKeehen; children of Joseph and Jane Crooks, Abigail, July 23rd, 1838, died January 17th, 1882; Robert Emmit, 1840, 1867; Wm. Wash- ington, 1842, 1870; Joseph David, 1846, 1853; children of John; married James B. Taylor.
Joseph Crooks and wife lived at Smithsburg, Md. ; he is buried in Chambersburg, Pa. Mrs. Crooks, Richmond, Ohio. The last property in the Emmit name was pur- chased by David Gamble in 1838, now the George Miller farm, the last record of Samuel Emmit; he was living in 1797.
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SHIELDS' ADDITION.
William Shields purchased from Samuel Emmit, Sep- tember 29th, 1787, 106 acres of land west and adjoining the west end of Emmittsburg, he continued the town and namned it Shields' Addition. He improved the lay out by widening the alley on south side, laying the alley out in lots:
I. Philip Nunemaker; 2. M. C. Adelsberger, 3. Jacob Oyster; 4. Jacob Oyster; 5. - - Sefton; 6. John Arm- strong; 7. Michael Row; 8. George Weaver; 9. Daniel Welty; Io. James Nickleson; 11. James Moore; 12. Bernard Welty; 13. Jacob Rickenbaugh; 53 Asa Webb; 54. Samuel Bom- gardner; 14. John Hengh; 15. Peter Honiker; 16. William Boner; 17. Frederick Row; 18. Mrs. George Smith; 19. Bowden; 20. Jacob Houck; 21. Mary Knox; 22. Margaret Knox; 23. David Agnew; 24. Joseph Row; 25. John Bader; 26. Joseph Danner; 55. McFadden; 56. Purcell; 57. --- Dugan.
A ground rent of ten dollars was included in the pur- chase of each lot, which was collected for many years and abandoned. At odd times prior to the dates of lot owners named, Dupliorn, Shockey, Walters, Smith, Cunningham, Moreland, Dugan, owned lots on Main street. Burket, Duncan, Lucket, colored people lived on alley. The tear- ing away of the tanyard and sale of lots of the Jacob Motter property was the extention of the west end, as well as the sale of the lot formerly connected with the hotel, Black's Tavern.
FROM THE HUGHS' FAMILY RECORD.
John Hughs, son of James, was a hatter in Emmitsburg. Capt. William Jennings came here a single man and mar- ried Lucy Brawner, daughter of Richard Brawner; James Hughs was the first captain of the militia of Eminitsburg in 1793, and had to march with his company against the whisky boys in 1794; he was one of the four trustees who built the Roman Catholic Church-James Hughs, Richard Jennings, Henry Arnold and Joseph Hughs; James Hughs
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was the principal conductor of the building and planned the same in 1793; James Hughs also built the church at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, two miles from town, in 1809. Christian Flautt, a tanner, who had the first tanyard in Emmitsburg, which he sold to Lewis Motter in 1798; he married Hannah, daughter of Patrick Hughs; C. Flautt died in December, 1815. In 1783 Dr. Wrench, of Emmits- burg, and Dr. Coats, of Taneytown, held a consultation; in 1783 Joseph Hughs says he attended school, the teachers, old master Lawrence and William Hutchinson, very good teachers; Joseph and Daniel Hughs kept store in a house on the land of Richard Elder in March, 1786; in August we moved to Emmitsburg to a house my father had built between Adam Hoffman, hatter, and a large frame then raised and under roof belonging to Samuel and William Shields; James Hughs purchased half of the lot and after- wards the other half, then joined the frame of his house together in which we kept store, until 1787, when I took out tavern license and we kept tavern and store together; times were hard, and we paid 20 per cent per annum for money; Richard Jennings had settled in Emmitsburg in the fall or winter of 1785 or '86, had purchased a small house, one story high from Samuel Shields on the corner of the Diamond, the centre of Emmitsburg, where he sold some store goods and sold rum and whisky by the sinall, until he purchased the next lot adjoining, where he began his brick house where brother James lives and his present wife, Lucy, formerly Mrs. Jennings; at the time we came to Emmitsburg there was only a few families that lived in it, viz., Richard Jennings, bachelor; John Rogers, who kept a tavern in the house where old John Troxell now lives, and Adam Hoffman, hatter, to trade adjoining us. In the house now owned by Peter Honiker and Michael Smith, a blacksmith, who built the house owned by George Winter, and Frederick Beard, who had the small house now built on Reed's lot; then built on the lot where Patrick Reed now lives, William Shields lived in the house where Jenny Burket now lives, and this composed Eminitsburg in
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1786. We had very rough beginning in this town, everything was in the most plain and common way; the country peo- ple met almost every Saturday; John Ripley was all the Justice of Peace for this place, Taneytown and Pipe Creek; card playing began and the game of loo, which was prac- ticed very much, though in a small way at first; long bul- lets and fines were our general exercise and a little dance, and when the town becomes thicker inhabited, then comes dancing masters amongst us, also in the country, which improved us that practice; there was always three Sundays we had no church and many holidays, but poorly. Joseph Hughs, the writer, married Polly Buchanan April 30th, 1792, daughter of Dr. John Buchanan; he had removed from Taneytown in 1791. I sold to Henry Arnold and Christian Flautt in the year 1791 my house and lot where Agnew's tavern now stands, and six lots where Motter's tan- yard now stands for 250 pounds, and then I purchased the corner house where Quin now lives from brother James Hughs for 425 pounds. I had purchased the house and lot from Daniel Gorden, that Jacob Troxell now owns, for 26 pounds, just under roof, then sold the house and lot to John Troxell, father of Jacob Troxell, hatter, for 55 pounds.
My brother Henry Hughs paid me fifty dollars yearly rent for the tavern part of the house, and I furnished him in all the articles for his tavern and all his liquors until my sister Hannah and Christian Flautt got married; then brother Henry quit the tavern and Henry Arnold took it on rent until I got tired of having a tavern so near me, and in 1793 I sold my house to George Hockensmithi for 360 pounds and I purchased a farm house from Eminit for 200 dollars where James Storm now lives. I built a chimney in same and finished in 1794; had my store in lower part, I raised a kitchen and built a stable; dug a draw well; sold it in spring of 1795 to Joseph Flautt of Littlestown for $1,200. Sometime before I had purchased from Richard Jennings on the Diamond a lot 30 feet square for 80 dollars, and built a frame house on it, where Bartholomew Mc- Caffery now lives, and I lived and kept store until 1804.
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CHARACTER OF EARLY SETTLERS.
In localities settled by the early emigrants a great deal of superstition prevailed, spooks, tokens, hobgoblins, &c. The different nationalities settling here appear to be free from this humbug, as no reference is made by the oldest citizen. It has its origin amongst the ignorant. The class of per- sons settling here give evidence of being men of more than ordinary culture for that age. Hence, the lack of super- stition, take the first named person and his occupation, Capt. Richard Jennings, merchant. The merchants of that day and long after were all trained men, having served an apprenticeship; not so now. I would put a wager, if we could decide it. Capt. Jennings was an educated man, and a trained merchant; Adamı Hoffman, hatter, a trained ine- chanic; John Rogers, tavern keeper. That did not mean the keeper of a grogery. Oh, no. It meant a fine gentle- man. Such as engaged in that occupation at that time. Michael Smith, blacksmith, an expert at the anvil, an in- telligent mechanic; Frederick Baird. carpenter, he has left evidence of his handiwork in the house he built; James and Joseph Hughs, merchants and architects. Could we suppose for one moment they, practical men, could hartor such deception. Never ! Samuel Emmit, a far-seeing man, a man of intelligence, Wm. Shields, a surveyor, always true to the compass; John Hughs, who built a two- story brick house; Christian Flautt, who built the first tan yard; John Ropley, a justice of the peace for Emmitsburg, Taneytown and Pipe creek; Martin and Margaret Cocoran, who taught the school in 1800. If the settlers unknown to us were of this class, which no doubt they were, we are assured superstition was below par. Later, the men who came, as settlers, evinced they were men of strong charac- ter. Whether in church, professions, merchants, mechan- ics, or what not, they gave a moral and religious tone to this entire community that it feels today, and is demon- . strated by their decendents. The foundations laid by these first men, have never been dug out, nor will the structure they built upon them; their names are unknown; none of
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their posterity in many cases live here, but scattered through the West can be found, those whose ancestry were born here, and Emmitsburg is remembered.
TAN YARDS.
The first tan yard in the town was built by Christian Flautt. He sold it to Lewis Motter in 1798, who success- fully carried it on until his death in 1837. Opening a store in part of his house, also acting as magistrate. It passed into the hands of his son Lewis, who continued the enter- prise until 1880, when he closed the vats and abandoned the business.
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