Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 86

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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Major William Trent, son of Colonel William Trent, by his second wife, Mary . Coddington, was born, reared and educated in Philadelphia. He engaged in the

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mercantile trade with his father, and was largely identified with the India trade of that city in early colonial times. He entered the military service of the colony in 1746, as Captain of a Philadelphia Company, and was active in the war on the extreme frontiers of the province during the French and Indian War of 1752-56. He was a Captain on the Ohio in 1753, and was at Braddock's defeat in 1755. He assisted in negotiating the treaty with the Indians, 1757, for the governments of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and received large grants of lands on the Monongahela and Kenahwak for his services. He was a Major during the Revolutionary War. and died in Philadelphia. 1787. He married Sarah Wilkins, who accompanied him in his campaigns on the frontier, where their children were born, William, at Wills Creek, Virginia, 1754; Ann and Martha, at Lancaster, 1756, and 1759, respective- ly, and Mary. Sarah and John, at Carlisle, 1762, 1764 and 1768.

Mary Trent, the fourth child, born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1762, married Nathan Beakes, of New Jersey, who was a son of William Beakes, Sheriff of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1689, later of Burlington county, New Jersey, by his second wife, Ruth, born March 30, 1680-81, daughter of Mahlon Stacy, from Dore-House, Hansworth, Yorkshire, of noble and ancient lineage, who came to New Jersey, 1678, with his wife, Rebecca Ely, and four of his eight children, and became one of the most prominent men of the province. He erected a mill on the site of Trenton, the first in that locality, and which, with his large holdings of land adjoining, was conveyed by his son and heir, to Colonel William Trent in 1714.

William Beakes was a son of William and Mary (Waln ) Beakes, who came to Pennsylvania from Backwell parish, county Somerset, England, 1682, and settled in Bucks county, which county William Beakes represented in the Provincial Assembly, 1684-85, and he was also a Justice of the County Court from 1683 up to the time of his death in 1687.

Nathan and Mary (Trent) Beakes had at least two sons and one daughter, Morgan Beakes, who married Hannah Miller, of Trenton; Nathan Beakes, Jr., and Lydia Beakes, before mentioned, who became the wife of Major Zachariah Rossell.

Major Zachariah and Lydia (Beakes) Rossell had issue:

Mary Trent Rossell, b. Dec. 1815: m. Lewis Pemberton Higbee (who d. in 1859) ; no issue, and she died in 1887;

NATHAN BEAKES ROSSELL, b. 1817, d. 1862; of whom presently;

William Henry Rossell, b. Sept. 1, 1820; became a physician and afterwards a Major in the Tenth Infantry, U. S. A .; m. (first) Lucinda Gayle Eastin, by whom he had William Trent Rossell, b. Oct. 11, 1849; m. (second) Margaret Daugè Martin, by whom he had Sophie Martin Rossell, b. Nov. 14. 1853, and Henry Daugè Rossell, h. Feb. 8, 1855; William Henry Rossell d. July 20, 1885;

Anna Rossell, b. Sept. 25, 1828: she was for many years a prominent figure in Trenton, N. J., where she died July 21. 1909.

MAJOR NATHAN BEAKES ROSSELL, eldest son of Major Zachariah and Lydia ( Beakes) Rossell, was commissioned, August 1. 1838, Second Lieutenant in Fifth United States Infantry ; promoted to First Lieutenant, November 3, 1840, and to Captain. September 8, 1847. He served with his regiment during the Mexican War, with great distinction : being brevetted Major, September 8, 1847, "for gallant and meritorious services at Melino del Rey, Mexico." He was commis- sioned Major of Third United States Infantry, September 25, 1861. and was made

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Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. June 27, 1862, "for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gaines Mills, Virginia," where he was killed. Major Rossell mar- ried Fanny Mann, December 1, 1841, and had four children :

Marion Trent Rossell, b. Oct. 2, 1842; m. Oct. 1, 1873, in Trenton, N. J., Baron Carl August Ludwig Alexander Lang von Langen, the son of General Baron Lang von Langen of Carnstadt, Würtemburg, Germany; she died Feb. 22, 1875;

CLIFFORD BEAKES ROSSELL, b. June 4, 1845; d. March 19, 1888; of whom presently ; Anna Morgan Rossell, b. July 6, 1849; she lives in Catskill, N. Y .: Randolph Lewis Rossell, b. Dec. 6, 1852; d. Dec. 2, 1894.

CLIFFORD BEAKES ROSSELL, was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was the eldest son of Major Nathan Beakes Rossell and Frances A. Mann, his wife. She was the daughter of Jonas Mann and Mary Negus; born on November 12, 1819, and died on June 2, 1892. Clifford B. Rossell married Lydia Simmons Wister, on October 31, 1878. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. William H. Furness, in Philadelphia. They had one child. Annis Wister Rossell, already mentioned. He was for many years superintendent of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and later was made manager of the coal lands belonging to the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, which latter post he held until a few years prior to his death in 1888. He died in Philadelphia.

Issue of Dr. Joseph Price and Annis W'ister ( Rossell ) Tunis :

Annis Lee Tunis, b., 1426 Pine st., Phila., Dec. 14, 1903;

Lydia Wister Tunis, b., York Harbor, Me., Aug. 12, 1906.

WAGNER FAMILY.

The Wagner family of Philadelphia was founded in America, 1743, by Rev. Tobias Wagner, pastor of the Reformed Church at Horkheim, near Heilbronn, Kingdom of Würtemberg, who came as a missionary to Reading, Pennsylvania, 1743.

The earliest ancestor of the family, of whom we have any record, was Tobias Wagner, at Nördlingen, in Bavaria, whose son, H. George Wagner, was a coun- cilman of the ancient town of Heidenheim, formerly called Ara Flavia, Würtem- berg. He married Mary Reuter, of the city of Ulin, Würtemberg, and their son,

TOBIAS WAGNER, D. D., was born in Heidenheim, February 21, 1598. Since he gave signs of a capable ingenium, 1609, he was sent to his grandfather at Nördlingen, where he attended a classical school, until a similar school was estab- lished in Heidenheim, 1611. In 1616, he entered the lower school in the Mon- astery of Adelberg, and, 1618, the higher school at Mulifontanum. In 1621 he began his theological studies at the Ducal University of Tübingen. Here he made such rapid progress and was so distinguished for the piety of his life, that he was appointed a deacon, or assistant pastor of the Church at Esslingen, 1624, and its pastor, 1632, and filled that charge with distinguished ability and piety more than twenty years. In 1653 the Duke of Tübingen made him Superintendent of the University and Professor of Theology. In 1662 he became Chancellor and Dean of the University of Tübingen, and filled these offices with great honor and use- fulness until his death, August 12, 1680. He married, 1624, Catherine, daughter of Dr. Melchoir Nicolai, his predecessor as Dean and Chancelor of University of Tübingen, one of the most distinguished scholars and divines of his time. Dr. Melchoir Nicolai was born at Schorndorff, December 4, 1578. His father, who bore the same name, was a man of noble rank, and his mother was a daughter of Michael Sattler, Archdeacon of Schorndorff. He received the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Tübingen, 1598, became a Deacon, 1601, at Weiblingen, and 1603, pastor of Marpacensis and Superintendent of the Diocese. He became Extraordinary Professor of Theology, University of Tübingen, 1605, Chancellor, 1638, and Dean, 1650. He was also Privy Councilor and general Visitor of Schools and monasteries for the Duchy of Würtemberg. He was a theologian of great ability, of profound learning and most dignified manners ; under his charge the church in Würtemberg was much advanced. He died August 13, 1659, and was buried in the Cathedral Church at Stuttgart. where a Latin epitaph records the honors he held in Church and State. By his first wife, Catherine Nuzbeck. a widow of noble rank, he had three sons who became clergymen, and one daughter, Catherine, who became wife of Chancellor Wagner. From a history of theology published at Ulm, 1710, we extract the following :

"Dr. Melchoir Nicolai was an acute, independent and very zealous theologian of great uprightness in his life and conversation. His controversy with the Jesuit Forer, at Del- bingen, is the best known & most suggestive of his controversial writings. His services to the University (Tübingen) during the most trying period of its existence were very promi- nent, for as Professor he maintained the doctrines of the Evangelical Church, and as Vice Chancelor he fearlessly and thoroughly defended its rights.

TOBIAS WAGNERTHEOL Doct: Paftor Elsfingenfis. Patienter et Conftanter,

Sculpere quce potuit Sculptor, que pingerePidor; Cuncta patent oculis: catera magna latent . Fec. Eckhard.

Nyt pinkit Pet-dory july

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His writings were remarkable for an elegant and scholastic style, which he form- ed especially by reading the writings of Augustine. Among the most remarkable is his Compendium theol. didacticum et Elenticum, which in his lifetime was published in Würt- emburg & subsequently, with polemical additions, by the Chancelor of Tübingen, Mich. Müller, at Ulm in 1688. His life was written by his son in law Tobias Wagner in 1662."

From August Friedrich Böks' history of the University of Tübingen, we quote the following, in reference to Dr. Tobias Wagner : "He was a profound scholar & as teacher and preacher on various occasions showed himself an accomplished theologian ; he was singularly clear in his expositions and moderate in his treat- ment of controversial subjects. In theological casuistry he possessed extensive knowledge and experience, and for this reason his counsel was often sought from various and distant places in the most complicated cases." He was described in the "Biographic Universelle" (Ed. 1827, vol. 50) : "Un des théologiens les plus habiles et les plus féconds du dix-septième siecle."

Among his most distinguished works, comprising seventy-five in all, are, "In- quisitio Theologica in acta Henotica," 1664, and "Inquisitio in Oracula Sybillarum de Christo," 1664; one of his works, "Examen Elenticum Atheismi Speculativi," had the honor of being included in the "Index librorum prohibitorum Benedicti XIV, Romae, 1758."

Chancellor Tobias Wagner died Angust 12, 1680, in the eighty-second year of his age, the fifty-sixth of his ministry, and the twenty-seventh of his residence at Tübingen as Professor and Chancellor of the University. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Henry Keller. His epitaph, written by Bened. Hopffer, Professor of Philosophy, is as follows :

"Hic, Hic Romanae requiescit malleus urbis Hic Evangelici conditur orbis honor; Canitie et gravitate nitens, et fulmine zeli Quantus in aeternae firmimento lucis erit."

A list of the works written by him is given in the above quoted work; it com- prises thirty-eight in Latin and thirty-seven in German, in almost every depart- ment of literature, those on theological subjects of course predominating. His wife, Catharine (Nicolai) Wagner died 1670. They were parents of sixteen chil- dren ; two of the sons became ministers of the Gospel, and two eminent physicians ; a daughter married Rev. John Hafner. Chancellor Wagner lived to see forty- four of his descendants surviving.

REV. GEORGE CONRAD WAGNER, son of the Chancellor, was assistant pastor at Herrenberg, Würtemberg, 1659-61, and later pastor at Bergfelden, Würtemberg, where he died 1679, a year before his father.

REV. GEORGE CONRAD WAGNER, son of the above, was born at Herrenberg, Würtemberg, near the close of his father's pastorate there, 1661. At the time of the death of his grandfather, the Chancellor, he was a student at the Seminary at Tübingen, and in the "Egicedia" of the Chancellor, is a poetic eulogy written by him. He was pastor at Hansen in Tüttlingen, Würtemberg, from 1690 to his death in 1727. He married Anna Mary Merklin, born September 17, 1667, who survived him, and after his death resided with her son, Tobias, at Horkheim, until her death, December 28, 1740.

REV. TOBIAS WAGNER, the American missionary, was a son of Rev. George Conrad and Anna Mary (Merklin) Wagner, and was born at Hansen, in the

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town of Tuttlingen, Duchy of Würtemberg. He was many years pastor at Hork- heim, near Heilbronn, and married there, 1733, Mary Christina Dorothea, daughter of Franciscus de Gregorüs, Professor of French and Italian Languages at the Uni- versity of Tübingen. The last official record at Horkheim in the handwriting of Rev. Tobias Wagner, bears date June 13, 1742. Some time in that year he re- signed his pastorate at Horkheim, to become a Lutheran missionary to America. Leaving his residence in the little village of Nordheim, on the Rhine, in Würtem- berg, he came first to New England, and thence to a German colony near Scho- harie, New York, but soon afterwards came to Pennsylvania. His first residence in Pennsylvania has not been definitely ascertained. On the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, on Tulpehocken, near Stouchburg, Berks county, Pennsylvania, the cornerstone of which was laid May 12, 1743, and the consecra- tion of which took place at Christmas of the same year, appears the following entry in German :

"After the above named Evangelical Church was completed to such an extent by the Building Committee appointed by the Congregation that the same could be occupied for the first time on the high festival of Christmas, the Congregation requested from the Most Reverend Heinrich Melchoir Mühlenberg, a Lutheran Minister of the Augsburg Confession. As M. Tobias Wagner had come as a Lutheran Minister from Würtemberg, via New England, Mr. Mühlenberg prom- ised the congregation that he (Wagner ) Would Move Up and serve this Church and Congregation. He followed in God's name and not only solemnly consecrated the Church on holy Christmas Day, with the word of God as the basis according to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and set it apart for the holy service of God with the name of Christ Church, that many souls might be edified in the same and led to eternal life, but he also performed the following ministerial acts by preaching, Catechetical instruction, baptizing, administering the Lord's Supper, marriages and burial of the dead. God grant his blessing on the same that he may . find the fruits of the same with joy in eternal life."

Pastor Wagner remained as pastor of this church until April 3, 1746, when he resigned his charge and for the next six years preached at Reading and other points in Berks county. On the organization of Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading, 1752, he became its first pastor, and filled that charge until 1759, when he resigned and returned to Würtemberg, again taking up his residence at Nord- heim on the Rhine, where he died April 1, 1764, as shown by the ancient church records of that place. He was accompanied on his return to his native country by his wife and their youngest daughter Maria, who remained in Germany; the rest of the children, though at least three of them were minors and the youngest but eleven years of age, were left behind in America. The widow was still living at Monchheim, Würtemberg, in 1769, when Tobias Wagner, her son, paid a visit to his mother and sister.

Rev. Tobias and Mary Christina Dorothea (Gregorüs) Wagner had issuc:

Tobias Wagner, b., Horkheim, Germany, Aug. 7, 1734;

Friedericka Dorothea Wagner, b. Horkheim, Germany. Sept. 26. 1735; m. at Reading, Berks co., Pa., Nov. 2, 1756, George Yoh;

Johan Frederick Wagner, b., Horkheim, May 17, 1737;

Christian Leibrecht Wagner, b., Horkheim, Jan. 5, 1739;

Catharina Elizabeth Wagner, b., Horkheim, July 9, 1741, and bapt. there, July 10; came to Pa. with her parents when an infant; m. at Reading, Pa., Jerome Heintzelman, of

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Lancaster, and was the great-grandmother of Maj .- Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman (1826-80), a graduate of West Point, and a distinguished officer of the Union Army, both in Mexican and Civil wars;

Godlove (Gottleib) Wagner, b., Berks co., Pa .;

JOHANN CHRISTIAN WAGNER (later known as John Wagner), b. Reading, Pa., June 26, 1748; d., Germantown, Feb. 15, 1832; m. Mary (Ritz) Baker; of whom presently;

Maria Wagner, b. Reading, Berks co., Pa .; returned to Würtemberg, Germany with her parents; m. there, Frederick Kemp; had a son, John Christian Kemp, b. April 17, 1798.

JOHN WAGNER, or as his baptismal record names him Johann Christian Wagner, youngest son of Rev. Tobias and Mary Christina Dorothea (Gregorüs) Wagner, was born in Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1748, and came to Phil- adelphia and engaged in business there when a young man. He was engaged in the business of importing woolen goods, from which he acquired a comfortable fortune. He married, February 28, 1784, Mary (Ritz) Baker, daughter of Christian Ritz. a native of Germany (born January 28, 1734, died December 7, 1823) ; and widow of Charles Baker, who died August 12, 1780. She was born June 28, 1760, and died August 23, 1839. She married Charles Baker, 1778, and had by him a daugh- ter Elizabeth Baker, born October 3, 1779, died February 28, 1867.

On his marriage John Wagner took up his residence at what is now No. 25 South Second street, above Chestnut, where all of his children were born, later removing to a house on the east side of Eighth street, between Market and Arch streets, then the residential portion of the city. In 1794 he purchased as a country seat, an estate on the banks of the Wissahickon Creek, near Germantown, then known as Roxborough, extending along School House lane, a portion of which has been the country seat of the family for five generations. Here the family found an asylum during the prevalence of the yellow fever in the city. Here John Wagner died February 15, 1832. His widow, Mary, died August 23, 1839.

Issue of John and Mary (Rits) Wagner:

Phebe Wagner, b., Phila., Feb. 11, 1785; d. June 20, 1825; m. (first), Feb. 14, 1805, Thomas Shipley, a prominent merchant of Phila., d. s. p., May 31, 1813; she m. (sec- ond), Nov. 20, 1821, John White, and had issue :

Phebe Wagner White, b. July 13, 1823; d. June 7, 1906; m., Feb. 12, 1846, George F. Hoffman, of New York, b. Dec. 2, 1808, d. March 4, 1884; issue :

John White Hoffman, b. Feb. 19, 1847; d. Aug. 18, 1810; m. (first), June 25, 1872, Elvira, dau. of John C. Soley, of Boston, d. April 1, 1873; m. (sec- ond), Dec. 16, 1886, Florence, dau. of S. Kingston McCay, of Phila .;

Edward Fenno Hoffman, b. Feb. 9, 1849: m., Oct. 16, 1887, Elizabeth, dan. of Gen. George McCall;

Josiah Ogden Hoffman, b. Sept. 5, 1858; d. 1909; m., April 19, 1883, Helen Scott, dau. of John T. Lewis, of Phila.

Edward Wagner White, b. Nov. 17, 1824; d. April 7, 1887.

Maria Wagner, b. May 19, 1786; d. Oct. 28, 1858; m., Dec. 19, 1811, John Stillé, descend- ant of Oloff Stille, who emigrated from Sweden, 1641, and settled in what was later known as "The Neck," the extreme southern part of Phila .; she was mother of Dr. Alfred Stille, the well-known physician of Phila., and Charles Janeway Stille, provost of Univ. of Pa .;

John Wagner, b. May 8, 1788; d. April 16, 1789;

Susan Wagner, b. Nov. 12, 1789; d. June 21, 1851; m., Oct. 28, 1813, Andrew Byerly, b. Oct. 5. 1782, d. Nov. 3, 1827; they had issue :

John W. Byerly, d. at sea, Aug. 20, 1835;

Elizabeth Byerly, m. (first) George B. Innes, (second) Rev. Erastus De Wolf ; Mary Byerly, d. May 25, 1843; m., Feb. 13, 1838, William P. Wells:

Edmund Byerly, b. Jan. 13, 1823; d. Dec. 9, 1898; unm .;

Phoebe Byerly, b. Dec. 29, 1820: d. Nov. 10, 1855; m., June 25, 1839, James Wilson, who d. Nov. 21, 1848:

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Susan Byerly, b. 1829; d. April 7, 1906; m. Morris Meredith;

William H. Byerly, b. 1826; d. April 21, 1851; unm.

SAMUEL WAGNER, b. March 6, 1792; d. Feb. 11, 1879; m. Emilie Obrie Duval; of whom presently ;

Tobias Wagner, b. Nov. 21, 1793; d. Feb. 19, 1868; was educated in Phila., and entered into an apprenticeship with George Nugent, merchant, 1810, and, Feb. 27, 1815, became partner in the business with his employer, which lasted until April 5, 1818, when he entered into partnership with Robert Taylor; on March 26, 1821, formed a co-partner- ship with William Milnor, and his brother, Samuel Wagner, under firm name of Mil- nor, Wagner & Co., to carry on the auctioneering business, but the firm was dissolved June 4, following, and the business continued by the Wagner brothers, under firm name of T. & S. Wagner, until March 26, 1831, when he retired from active business, but up to a few years previous to his death, took an active part in public business as a director for and manager of various institutions and companies, "and," says an ohituary notice of him, published at the time of his death, "it is not too much to say that his name in connection therewith commanded unbounded confidence." He was a member of board of managers of Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, Dec. 23, 1837, until his death, and at a meeting of the board, held March 4, 1868, resolutions were adopted, expressing the deep sorrow of his late colleagues in his loss, the preamble to which was in part as follows: "In recording on the minutes of their proceedings this notice of Mr. Wagner's death, the Board desire to express their high appreciation of his virtues-illustrated during the whole course of his long life by word and by ex- ample,-and in all the relations of life, whether as a private citizen, a man of busi- ness or as a Christian Gentleman, he was a model which all men might be proud to imitate; possessing great amiability of character, a sound discriminating judgment, with the purest integrity of heart and mind,-he was a safe counselor and valuable friend." He was also a director of Franklin Fire Insurance Co. many years, and the resolutions adopted by board of directors, Feb. 24, 1868, testify in a like manner to his noble, generous, and amiable characteristics. Mr. Wagner was a member of vari- ous benevolent and philanthropic organizations, and contributed largely to the cause of uplifting and Christianizing the human race. He was thirty years a member of the vestry of St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, Manayunk, Phila .; one of the most active managers of Corporation for Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen in Communion of Protestant Episcopal Church in Commonwealth of Pa., and member of the Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for Advancement of Christianity in Pa., to which he left a large bequest. He was also member of American Philo- sophical Society; a trustee of Univ. of Pa., and a director of Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Wagner was stricken with paralysis, at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, Oct. 27, 1853, and though he survived four and a half years, was for practically all of that period almost a helpless invalid. An account of his last illness, and a beautiful tribute to his character was written by his nephew and physician, Dr. Alfred Stille. Tobias Wagner m., June 10, 1841, Mary, dau. of Samuel Rhoads, who survived him;

William Wagner, b. Jan. 15, 1796; d. Jan. 17, 1885; spent most of his boyhood days at the old family country seat, and there began the collection of curious specimens of nature's handiwork of great variety,-a work which was kept up with unfaltering interest dur- ing his long life,-and which culminated in the large and valuable collection now con- tained in the Museum of Wagner Free Institute of Science, founded by him. At an early age he was placed in the academy of Dr. James Abercrombie, on Fourth st., be- low Arch, from which he graduated with high honors in 1808. His desire to study medicine under the celebrated Dr. Physick, was opposed by his father, who thought it best for him to enter upon a mercantile life, and in 1812 he was employed in the count- ing house of his brother-in-law, Thomas Shipley, but soon after became an apprentice to Stephen Girard, though still keeping up his studies of Latin, French and mathe- matics, as well as such researches into the realms of science as his duties in the count- ing house would permit. In 1816 he was sent, by Stephen Girard, as assistant super- cargo, with his elder brother, Samuel Wagner, in charge of the ship, "Rosseau," on a long trading voyage to foreign ports, from which he returned in the autumn of 1818. During this voyage he made large collections of minerals, shells, plants, and numerous organic remains, which now enrich the museum. Leaving Mr. Girard, he engaged in various business ventures, until 1840, when he retired from commercial pursuits. On his second marriage, 1841, he went abroad on a two years' trip, and on his return bought the suburban property then known as Elm Grove, now Seventeenth and Mont- gomery ave., where he took up his residence and lived until his death. Here he ar- ranged his collections, and in 1847 began to give lectures thereon; and the place be- coming too small to accommodate the multitudes who flocked to hear him, 1852 the hall at Thirteenth and Spring Garden sts. was secured for "Professor Wagner's Free Scientific Lectures," and on May 21, 1855, the "Wagner Free Institute of Science" was formally inaugurated, and an able corps of well-known lecturers began their work. The edifice now occupied by the institute and museum, built by Mr. Wagner on his own estate, at Elm Grove, was dedicated May 11, 1865, and a deed of trust made by

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 86

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978