History of Reading, Pennsylvania, and the anniversary proceedings of the sesqui-centennial, June 5-12, 1898, Part 1

Author: Montgomery, Morton L. (Morton Luther), b. 1846. comp. cn; Board of Trade of Reading (Reading, Pa.) cn
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: Reading, Pa. : Times Book Print
Number of Pages: 375


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READING, PA. TIMES BOOK PRINT 1898


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by MORTON L. MONTGOMERY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


CHARLES F. HELLER, BOOK BINDER.


PREFACE.


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T HE Committee on History, appointed by the Executive Committee of the Sesqui-Centennial Anniversary of Reading for the compilation of a concise history, together with a brief sketch of all the industries of the place and of the pro- ceedings relating to the Anniversary, submit this volume as the result of their labors, after having given it their patient attention for more than six months. The undertaking was both difficult and laborious, and the reader will doubtless appreciate this as- sertion upon noting the numerous details and statistics in the several chapters of the volume. All the particulars had to be collected and systematically arranged by the compiler and sub- mitted by himto the Committee, and in doing so much persis- tent inquiry was necessary. They can not hope to have pub- lished with absolute correctness so many pages as this volume contains, embracing such a large collection of names, details and statistics, but they did the best they could under all the trying circumstances and they would ask the public to measure criticism accordingly.


Most of the manufacturers replied cheerfully to the circular issued for supplying data for the chapter relating to the indus- tries, and the remaining facts, wherever obtainable, were gathered from other sources. They had expected to present a statement, showing the total employees, wages, investment and production of Reading in 1897, in order to give the public a satisfactory idea of its extensive business relations, but they found this impracticable, and therefore that part of the under- taking had to be abandoned. However, sufficient information is published in the volume to indicate that Reading is indeed a great manufacturing centre, and that its productions have come to be shipped to all parts of the civilized world; and it is made apparent that this industrial situation has been the great means which effected the remarkable development of the place.


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There are over five hundred shops, factories, foundries and works at Reading which produce over two hundred kinds of articles varying in size and weight from a clip, a small fastening for a spectacle lens, to an enormous cotton press, and of these over three hundred are briefly described as to character and ownership. It is a matter for general congratulation that the direction of local enterprises by business men and capitalists has resulted in establishing industries so greatly diversified in character, and the wisdom of this course has been fully demon- strated by the prosperous condition of affairs here during the past several years in spite of the trying times and the discourag- ing state of trade elsewhere.


It may be mentioned that this is the first attempt at present- ing in a convenient form concise sketches and tabulated state- ments of the several industries of Reading in connection with its general history, and on this account the volume will be found of great value. The purpose of the Committee having been to supply the community with a complete and comprehen- sive book containing all the important facts relating to the founding and development of Reading, to the industrial estab- lishments which brought about that development, and to the proceedings of the Anniversary, they are now pleased to say that this purpose has been successfully accomplished.


The compiler, Morton L. Montgomery, Esq., who was recommended by the Committee on Statistics of the Board of Trade, and appointed by the Executive Committee of the Sesqui-Centennial, spared no efforts in the discharge of his duties to make this publication a valuable souvenir of the extra- ordinary occasion. The Committee on History are highly gratified at the result of his labors. They express the belief that all persons, who are interested in the local affairs of Read- ing, will be equally gratified after having become acquainted with the contents of the volume, and they will doubtless unite with the Committee in saying that the publication reflects not only the ability and industry of the compiler, but the public spirit of the Executive Committee and also the liberality and appreciation of the people in behalf of the Anniversary.


CALVIN K. WHITNER, Chairman of Committee on History.


Reading, July 8, 1898.


CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I .- HISTORY OF READING. PART I-TOWN, BOROUGH AND CITY.


TOWN, 1748-1783 :- First Occupants-Grant to Penn-First Patents -Town Laid Out-Lots Sold-County Seat-County Erected- Taxables of 1759-Town District Established-First Store-Public Buildings-Oldest Buildings-Educational Affairs-Nationality of Inhabitants-French and Indian War-Revolution-Nagle's Com- pany at Cambridge-Store-House for Supplies-Prominent Men. BOROUGH, 1783-1847 :- Borough Erected-Surrounding Towns- Stage Coach-Bridges-Public Buildings-Turnpikes-Canals- Railroad-Banks-Panic of 1837-Industrial Affairs-Water Com- pany-Lighting-Fire Companies-Newspapers-Churches and Schools-Street Names-Early Exhibitions-Distinguished Visi- tors-Liberty Poles of 1799-English War-Mexican War . . ..


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CITY, 1847-1897 :- Review of Reading in 1847-Development of City by Decades from 1847 to 1897, mentioning the most important matters that occurred in the progress of Reading for fifty years- Civil War


PART II-INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.


PUBLIC STRUCTURES :- Court House-Market Houses-County Prison-State House-Water Works-Public Roads-Streets-Lo- cation of City-Sewers-Ferries and Bridges-Schuylkill River- Freshets-Fire. Company Buildings-City Hall-Public Parks- Post Office-Cemeteries 34


PRIVATE ENTERPRISES OF A PUBLIC NATURE :- Turnpikes-Stage- Coaches-Canals-Steam Railroads-Street Railways-Mountain Railroads-Telegraph-Telephone-Gas Light-Electric Light and Power-Halls-Private Market Houses. . 44


PART III-CHURCHES, SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS.


Churches-Schools-Early Education-Common School System- Private Schools-Newspapers and Periodicals 53


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CONTENTS.


PART IV-ASSOCIATIONS.


Military-Protective-Secret-Financial-Industrial-Literary-Pro- fessional-Musical, vocal and instrumental-Charitable-Re- ligious


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PART V-GOVERNMENT.


Town, Borough and City-Wards-Officials for the City; for the Wards; for the Precincts-Board of Water Commissioners- Board of Health-Board of Common Commissioners-Board of Public Works-List of Burgesses and Mayors-State Representa- tives from City .


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PART VI-CENSUS.


Getz Enumeration of 1847-Levan Enumeration of 1877-Compara- tive Statistics 1856, 1885, 1897-Assessment for 1898- Dwellings 1898-Census, 1790 to 1898-Mayor's Enumeration of 1898-Com- parative Statement of 1898-Population north and south of Penn street-Colored Population 87


CHAPTER II-INDUSTRIES.


PART I-EARLY EMPLOYMENTS.


Employments before 1783-Industrial Character-Early Traffic- Ware-house in 1826-Reading in 1840-Employments, Manufac- tories, Public Buildings and Enterprises . 91


PART II-DEVELOPMENT OF READING.


Status, 1783-1847- Status, 1847-1897-Surviving Business Men of 1847-Cause of Development 95


PART III-INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.


Table of Industries, 1898- Description of Industries, treating the several kinds alphabetically . 100


PART IV-SITUATION OF READING IN 1898.


Important Improvements of a public and private nature described briefly-Table of miscellaneous employments arranged alphabeti- cally 208


CHAPTER III-SESQUI-CENTENNIAL.


PART I-ACTION OF BOARD OF TRADE.


Celebration of Sesqui-Centennial of Reading proposed and adopted, and Committee selected to make the necessary arrangements . . 217


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PART II -PROCEEDINGS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.


Executive Committee -- Committees appointed-History of Reading authorized-Work of Committees-Official Design-Official Pro- gram 218


PART III-ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS.


Religious Services and Sacred Concerts-Civic Parade-Signal Corps-Fireworks-School Parade- Preparation for Parade- Prize Flag-Illumination and Concert-Sesqui-Centennial Hymn -Firemen's Parade ·- Fire on Penn Square-Waynesboro Delega- tion-Industrial Parade-Cavalcade and Corso Parade-Bicycle Races-Bicycle Parade-Regatta and Serenata-Distinguished Visitors Entertained - Escutcheon and Flag-Reading Artillerists in Camp-Greetings from Reading, England-Report of Finance Committee


PART IV-BOARD OF TRADE AND READING OFFICIALS. Board of Trade, Officers, Committees and Members-Officials of Reading, elective and appointive, including all departments- School Board, Officers and Controllers-Post Office Officials and Employees 284


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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


Acme Bicycle Works. 108


Adler Building .


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Bingaman Street Bridge .


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Board of Trade Building 69


Boys' High School


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Branch Bank Building 67


Brewery of P. Barbey & Son II7 Cavalcade and Corso, View of, 265


Charles Evans Cemetery En-


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City Hall .


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Civic Parade, View of,


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Consumers' Gas Co. Plant


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County Prison 1770-1848


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First School House at Reading 54


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HISTORY OF READING.


CHAPTER I.


PART I .- TOWN 1748 TO 1783.


First Occupants .- The Indians were the first occupants of this territory. They were called the Minsi, who constituted one of the tribes of the nation which was known as the Lenni Lenape. It is not known that other occupants preceded them, for no evidences of any kind have been found to prove a pre- vious possession. When they first migrated here, has not been ascertained. It is supposed they came here from the North and West.


Grant to Penn .- The English came to own the territory by conquest from the Dutch in 1664, and King Charles II in 1681 granted the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn in satis- faction of a debt due to his deceased father Admiral Penn for meritorious services. Notwithstanding this grant, William Penn recognized the claim of the Indians to the land, and there- fore obtained their release. He died in 1718, possessed of this section, and devised it to his children.


First Patents .- In the general desire to dispose of lands in this section, the Penns directed surveys to be made and patents issued, which will appear by the following statement:


I. Richard Hockley, tract for 1150 acres; survey, February 19, 1733.


2. Thomas Lawrence, tract for 300 acres ; survey, March 19, 1733; patent, October 27, 1733.


3. Thomas Lawrence, tract for 13772 acres ; survey, April 22, 1738; patent, February 16, 1739.


4. Samuel Finney, tract for 150 acres ; survey, February 19, 1733.


5. Proprietary land, tract for 126 acres ; survey, July 3, 1741.


6. Part of tract I; on which lots were laid out, afterward called "Hockley Out-lots."


The tract for 1150 acres adjoined the river and extended from a line now occupied by Hockley and Woodward streets to


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a line beyond the Charles Evans Cemetery, occupied by what was known for many years as Hiester's Lane.


Some years after these patents had issued, about 1740, N 70 E while efforts were being made to 191 PS. 120 172 erect a county, (Berks) the Penns conceived the idea of laying out a town at this point, S 20 220 but finding that the land had 3 E been sold, they endeavored to 1 77147ANH35 21 FORD RIVER re-purchase it. Lawrence, how- 364 ever, declined to re-sell his two 174 6 tracts. Their agent then inves- 100 tigated the matter, and on Sep- 40 - 207 120 80 N tember 28, 1743, addressed a 5 . 100 34 106 letter to them in reference to the S 20 E proposed "Town of Reading." N 70 E This is the first mention of a 310 town at this place. In 1745, A 28 6 96 220 lots were laid out on part 6, and DRAFT OF FIRST PATENTS. this action induced Lawrence to 268 re-convey his tracts.


Town Laid Out .- During the Fall of 1748, Penn's two sons, Thomas and Richard, caused a town to be laid out by Nicholas Scull, their surveyor general, on the land adjoining the Schuylkill, (Lawrence tract, ) at the "Ford," in the road that extended from the Tulpehocken? settlements to Philadel- phia. It was named Reading, after the county town in Berkshire, England.


The town plan comprised 520 lots, and 204 out-lots, num- bered consecutively. The lots between the river and King (3rd) street were laid out in 1776. The double line through these lots, on the accompanying plan, indicates the canal which extended through that section of the town from 1822 to 1834.


At that time there was not a town, not even a village in all the surrounding territory for many miles. The nearest town was Lebanon, 28 miles to the west, which had been laid out in 1740 ; and the next was Lancaster, 33 miles to the southwest, which had been laid out in 1728.


Lots Sold .- Penn's sons then appointed Conrad Weiser, Francis Parvin and William Hartley as commissioners to sell


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time there were six other counties in Pennsylvania, and in Berks county there were twenty townships, twelve east of the Schuylkill with Philadelphia as the county seat, and eight west with Lancaster as the county seat. The population was about 12,000 as near as it can be estimated, which was located almost entirely south of the Blue mountains. The early settlers were Swedes, Germans, English and Welsh ; the first named being situated in Amity township (south-eastern section), the second in all parts of the county excepting Robeson and Caernarvon, the third in Oley, Exeter, Maidencreek and Richmond (in the central section), and the last in Brecknock, Caernarvon, Cumru and Robeson (southern section.)


Taxables of 1759 .- In 1759, there were 269 taxables in Read- ing, whose names were as follows :


Benezet, Daniel


Diehm, Thomas


Fichthorn, Andrew


Bright, Michael


Dehaven, Edward


Fasig, Ph. Jacob


Bird, William


Debler, Melchior


Geissler, George


Biddle, James


Dorff, Samuel


Gibson, Francis


Bishoff, John


Depoy, Widow


Garrett, Henry


Bucher, Jacob


Deible, George


Geiger, John


Bernhisel, John


Dengler, John


Geiger, Adam


Barret. Joseph


Dorst, Paul


Gross, John


Burkhardt, Jacob


Dick, Nicholas


Graff, William


Buckman, Matthias


Diel, George


Gerst, Henry


Boyer, Christopher


Evans, Amos


Gosler, Henry,


Becktold, John


Engel, Andrew


Gotschall, Nicholas


Baum, Peter


Ege, Adam


Haga, Wolfgang


Bernhard. George


Ermel, William


Hause, Peter


Balde, Jacob


Early, John


Hottenstein, William


Brendlinger, Joseph


Eissenbice, John


Bower, Conrad


Ege, Martin


Henry, John Hause, Peter


Brosius, Abraham


Eplar, Adam


Henderson, David


Brown Conrad


Earman, William


Henig, Balthaser


Bridenbach, Philip


Feather, Peter


Creek, Francis


Fisher, Jacob


Heiner, Krafft Huth, Samuel Holdzader, Peter


Cluse, William Dalman, William


Frick, William


Daum, George


Fix, Lawrence


Diehm, Jacob


Fass, Adam


Diehm, Adam


Feagle, Matthias


Dick, Jacob


Fricker, Anthony Fichthorn, Michael


Hauck, Joseph


Drury, Edward


Fetter, Michael


Heinlein, Matthias Haag, Michael


Diehm, Peter


Fisher, Dorst


Hartman, John Hollig, Barbara Hugh, Owen Hughes, John


Hiddings, William


Degenhardt, Henry


Fox, Adam


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TAXABLES.


Leibrook, Jacob


Lutz, Jacob


Lehman, Christopher


Loch, Peter


Meyerly, David Martin, Eberhard Moyer, Jacob


Morgan, Francis


Meng, Melchior


Rapp, Peter Rush, Michael, Jr.


Jacob, John


Messersmith, Val'tine


Sammet, Christian Sweitzer, John Smith, Christopher


Jung, Martin Jung, Isaac Jacobs, Israel Joh, George


Maurer, Ernst


Kuhn, Adam


Megly, Jacob


Koch, William


Meyerly, Balthaser


Kerper, Abraham


Mergen, John


Shower, Michael Schultz, Samuel Smith, Peter


Kern, Jacob Kline, Peter


Milleisen, Christopher


Seister, Michael Snyder, Jacob


Kerper, Julius


Marckle Christian


Stichter, Conrad


Kendel, Catharine


Neidly, Nicholas


Stedman, Alexander


Klinger, Philip


Neidly, Christopher


Newhardt, Conrad


Shapport, Nicholas Schultz, George Sowerbry, Widow


Koch, Johannes


Nagle, Simon Nagle, Philip


Strohacker, Gottlieb Smith, Philip


Krimler, Henry


Pearson, Benjamin


Shaaber, Andrew


Kemrer, Agath


Philipi, John


Snider, Henry


Klinder, Conrad


Perlet, Paul


Seiler, Philip


Klinger, Alexander


Perlet, Prederick


Keiser, Jacob


Price, Evan


Shorp, John Shop, Gabriel Shreck, David


Keim, Nicholas Kortz, John


Read, James, Esq


Rush, Michael


Spatz, Lawrence


Krauser, Sebastian


Riehm, Edward


Spatz, Michael


Krafft, Martin


Reitmoyer, Henry


Sleagle, Adam


Kost, Martin Kurrer, Adam Daniel


Rice, Michael Reiffle, Adam


Reasor, William Reiff, Peter


Rule, Henry


Sump, George


Smith, Abraham


Riehm, George


Riehm, John, Sr Reiff, Conrad


Roreboust, Bernhard Rabbold, Jacob Rose, Everhardt Reitmoyer, Michael


Reitner, Joseph Reese, Josiah


Morgan, Jacob


Marx, William


Rieser, Jacob, Jr.


Jäger, Jacob


Miller, Andreas


Moritz, Nicholas


Meyer, Matthias


Shomon, Joseph


Miller, Frederick


Springer, George Shrite, John Spang, Lenhart


Miller, William


Kiney, Christian


Marsteller, Henry


Koch, Adam Klinger, Peter


Kerber, Valentine


Parvin, Francis


Sprincker, Philip Senger, Henry Sassamanhousen, H. Seitzinger, Nicholas Salsgaber, Andreas


Kepner, Joachim Lincoln, Thomas Lesher, John Lapler, Lorentz Lebo, Paul Levan, Isaac


Rhine, David Ruth, Peter


Suder, Barbara


Heist, George Hillegas, Michael Heyman, Moses Hahn, Henry Hitner, George Hausihl, Michael Hetler, Jacob Hart, Philip Handshoe, George Imler, Ludwig Jack, George


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Witman, Adam


Whitehead, James


Witman, Ludwig


Wolf, Henry


Wicks, Christian


Witman, Christopher


Weiser, Peter


Weiser, Conrad


Wickersham, Isaac


Wirtenberger, George


Williamson, James


Wenrick, Francis Weis, Philip


Wunder, George


Witman, John


Zinn, Frederick


Barger, Thomas


Lebo, Isaac


Sheirer, Adam


Hartley. Richard


Lightfoot, Benjamin


Spindler, Lorentz


Jackson, Samuel


May, Thomas


Sowermilk, John


Josephson. Myer


Nathan, Lyon


Starr, James


Kemrer, Matthias




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