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Aside from the above cases of execution in Dauphin county are the following :
July 9, 1874, Lewis Rosentine and John Moody, for the mur- der of Farmer Abraham Behn, of Londonderry township, Novem- ber 14, 1873.
July, 1887, Frank Wilson, for the murder of a rag-picker, John B. Rudy, near the Home of the Friendless, May 16, 1876.
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March 24, 1882, Henry and Frank Romberger, for the shoot- ing of Daniel Troutman, near Uniontown, November 14, 1880.
December 7, 1893, B. F. Tennis, for the murder of little Agnes Cooper Wright, near Hummelstown, September 19, 1893.
June 29, 1899, Joseph Hollinger, for the murder of his wife, near Hummelstown, August 26, 1898.
July 11, 1899, Albert Smith, for the murder of his wife, Decem- ber 17, 1897.
July 23, 1901, Elmer E. Barner, for the murder of his broth- er-in-law, Isaac W. Miller, near Halifax, January 15, 1900.
January 28, 1902, Weston Keiper and Henry Rowe, for mur- dering Charles Ryan, a banker, at Halifax.
SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY FROM REPORT OF JUNE 5, 1905.
Districts.
Schools.
Average Attendance.
Berryburg borough
2
56
Conewago township
6
I4I
Dauphin borough
3
85
Derry township
I 5
368
Elizabethville borough
6
168
Gratz borough
3
99
Halifax borough
4
109
Halifax township
IO
184
East Hanover township
IO
218
South Hanover township
7
18I
West Hanover township
5
156
Harrisburg city
218
7,095
Highspire borough
8
288
Hummelstown borough
8
306
Jackson township
9
I60
Jefferson township
2
55
Londonderry township
I2
220
Lykens borough
II
530
Lykens township
8
187
Middletown borough
24
835
Mifflin township
7
99
Millersburg borough
7
286
Upper Paxton township
9
215
Middle Paxton township
8
18I
Lower Paxton township
9
235
Penbrook borough
4
163
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Reed township.
3
26
Royalton borough
6
154
Rush township.
2
33
Steelton borough
48
1,633
Susquehanna township
I 5
465
Upper Swatara township
2 I
815
Lower Swatara township
5
130
Uniontown borough
2
47
Washington township
9
18I
Wayne township
4
74
Wiconisco township
1 2
496
Williams township.
7
202
Williamstown borough
13
453
Total
562
17,317
DEVELOPMENT.
The growth of the county, in an industrial way, may some- what be judged from the following extract from the United States Census of 1840, which not only shows the meagerness of her manu- facturing interests at that date, but also the character and the crude way of making different articles, as compared to this, the morning of the Twentieth century.
There was the natural ground work of about .240,000 acres of land within the county. From the soil was produced 300,000 bushels of wheat; 400,000 bushels of oats; 200,000 bushels of rye; 300,000 bushels of corn; 130,000 bushels of potatoes; 25,000 bushels of buckwheat and 25,000 tons of hay.
There were but three furnaces, making 3,000 tons of cast iron, and three forges and rolling-mills, producing 466 tons of bar iron. These furnaces and forges consumed 5,537 tons of fuel and em- ployed 224 men; the capital invested was $120,000. One para- graph found in a book six years later (1846) remarks that "the in- dustries have considerably increased since then." As compared with a report of the 1900 United States Census this remark can be fully ap- preciated !
The 1840 report goes on to further state: There are 8,000 tons of anthracite coal mined annually, thirty miners employed, and a capital of $150,000 invested. There were 24,000 pounds of wool grown ; 600 pounds of hops produced ; 1,000 pounds of beeswax ; 322 pounds silk cocoons ; 46,700 pounds of tobacco; 20 tanneries, pro- ducing 14,900 sides of sole leather; 6,000 sides "upper" leather-
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capital in tanneries, $82,200; 20,000 pounds of soap was made and 60,000 pounds of candles ; there were seven distilleries, making a to- tal of 14,700 gallons of liquor ; four breweries, making a total of 461,000 gallons of beer; there were four potteries, working on a capital of $850; there were made fifty barrels of tar, one man doing the work. The total output of machinery of all kinds within the county, of home manufacture, was valued at $2,000; of small arms there were forty-seven pieces reported; the value of all products from the brick and lime kilns was $21,209 with 91 men employed; there were nine fulling mills and six woolen mills; value of goods produced, $6, 115; 31 men employed, and capital invested $4,056. There were one paper factory ; twelve printing offices ; six binderies ; eleven weekly newspapers; two rope-walks, (yards where hemp rope was made by twisting by hand), capital invested $2,800, and product annually valued at $7,000. There were twenty-nine flour- ing mills, making 15,400 barrels of flour; 35 grist mills; 76 saw mills ; two oil mills. Furniture was made to the value of $14,750, and 44 men were employed. During 1840 there were erected in Dauphin county sixteen brick or stone houses, and thirty-seven built of wood.
CURRENT PRICES IN 1800.
As shown by the newspapers at Middletown, Pennsylvania, in February, ISoo, the following were the current prices: Wheat, $1.50 per bushel; rye, 67c .; corn, 50c .; plaster of paris, $1.33 per bushel; salt, $1.67 per bushel; whiskey, 47c. per gallon ; bacon, 9c. per lb .; bar iron, $106.67 per ton.
At about the same date, at the earliest in 1793, the Schuylkill and Suusquehanna Canal Company advertised for workmen, offer- ing five dollars a month for the winter months, and six for sum- mer, with board and lodging. The next year there was a debate in the House of Representatives, which brought out the fact that soldiers got but three dollars a month. A Vermont member, dis- cussing the proposal to raise it to four dollars, said that in his state men were hired for eighteen pounds a year, or four dollars a month, with board and clothing. Mr. Wadsworth, of Penn- sylvania, said: "In the states north of Pennsylvania, the wages of the common laborer are not, upon the whole, superior to those of the common soldier." In 1797 a Rhode Island farmer hired a good farm hand at three dollars, and five dollars a month was paid to those who got employment for the eight busy months of the farmer's year.
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A strong boy could be had at that time, in Connecticut, at one dollar a month through those months, and he earned it by work- ing from daylight until eight or nine o'clock at night. He could buy a coarse cotton shirt with the earnings of three such months. Women picked the wool off the bushes and briars, where the sheep had left it, and spun and knit it into mittens to earn one dollar a year by this toilsome business. They hired out as help for twenty- five cents a month and their board.
By a day's hard work at the spinning-wheel a woman and girl together would earn twelve cents. Matthew Carey, in his letter on the Charities of Philadelphia ( 1829) gives a painful pic- ture of the working classes at the time. Every avenue of employ- ment was choked with applicants. Men left the cities to find work on the canals at from sixty to seventy-five cents a day, and to encounter the malaria, which laid them low in numbers. The highest wages paid to women was twenty-five cents a day; and even women who made clothes for the arsenal were paid by the government at no higher rates. When the ladies of the city begged for an improvement of this rate, the Secretary hesitated, lest it should disarrange the relations of capital and labor throughout the country.
AGRICULTURE.
While there are many more superior farming districts in the country than Dauphin county, and many greater agricultural states than Pennsylvania, yet in the territory embraced in Lancaster, of which Dauphin was at one time a part, there are but few finer farming sections in the Keystone State. Those residing in the boroughs and cities imagine, many times, that the wealth of this goodly domain is chiefly derived from the manufacturing and rail- way interests solely, but far from it. Long before the forge and the loom, the rolling mill and other vast ramifications of factories found within its borders had been established, the broad acres of rich land had cast forth its golden wealth in prolific crops of field and garden. The early-day boats, on river and canal, were heavily laden with the valuable products of the soil. The county has ever been rich in grains, grasses, dairy products, fruits from the orchards planted out by the hand of the early pioneers and kept intact by their descendants. Notwithstanding the soil of Pennsyl- vania does not rank with that of the great prairie-land, with its deep rich alluvial composite, yet, by care and diligence, the many generations of the past have been enabled to produce much upon which her vast population has subsisted.
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In the vicinity of Middletown there are a large number of farms which for more than a quarter of a century have, by reason of their high state of cultivation, been known as "The Pride of Dauphin," and they have been frequently visited by scientists, statesmen and even presidents of the republic, as well as appreciated and commented upon by foreign travelers and nobility from Euro -- pean countries. A dozen or more of these farms are situated in Lower Swatara and Londonderry townships. Some are given to high-grade stock, some to cereals, some to tobacco culture, and others, by a rotation of crops, are devoted to mixed farming. The land is annually enriched by manures and fertilizers, and to-day seem to yield forth as bountifully as they did a century ago. But here, as in all other parts of the world, there are good and bad farmers-the one succeeds while the other fails.
According to the State agricultural reports for 1903, the fol- lowing agricultural showing is made; also extracts will be quoted from the 1900 United States Census reports :
In 1900 Dauphin county had 2,844 farms, averaging 82 acres each, the average for the entire State being about 87 acres. Two hundred and fifty-one of these farms were less than ten acres each; 552 were twenty acres and under, 792 were 50 and under 100 acres each, 124 were 175 and under 260 acres each, six were 500 and less than 1,000 acres each, one farm contained 1,000 acres. Two hundred and sixty-eight of the farms were rented to cash tenants, and 834 to share renters.
The total value of all domestic animals was $1,251, 134. There were 9,529 horses, 1,672 mules, 8,500 sheep, 21, 156 swine, 13, 124 dairy cows. The value of animals slaughtered on the farm was placed at $238,157.
The value of all orchard products was $149,315, value of grapes and wines $10,056, value of small fruits $14,261. The number of apple-bearing trees, 152,736, yielding 14,000 bushels of apples; 14,000 cherry trees, bearing 10,000 bushels of cherries; barrels of cider made, 13,372; pounds of grapes grown, 383,230; gallons of wine made, 3,200; acreage of strawberries, 50; quarts produced, 1,000,000; nut-bearing trees, 1,140, bearing 1,029 bushels.
TABLE OF PRODUCTS.
Corn
29,819 Acres
926,560 Bushels.
Wheat
27,030 66
287,360
Oats
23,796 66
715,000 66
Rye
6,757 66
83,820
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Clover (grass)
12,917
14,262 Tons.
Timothy (grass), etc.
39,000
43,468
37,020 Pounds.
Broom Corn
5
1,660
Buckwheat
268
3,410 Bushels.
CURRENT PRICES IN 1903.
Wheat, per bushel $ .73
Mules, per head
$125.00
Corn, per bushel
.58
Cows (milk ), per head
35.00
Oats, per bushel
.36
Fat Hogs, per pound
.08
Rye, per bushel
.60
Fat Steers, per pound .05
Buckwheat, per bushel .50
Eggs, per dozen
.17
Clover Hay, per ton
12.50
Butter, per pound
.22
Timothy, etc.
15.00
Potatoes, per bushel .60
Horses, per head
140.00
Apples, per bushel
.50
The average price per acre for farm land in 1903 was $50; wages for farm hands per annum, with board, $148; per month in summer, $17; per day and board, $1.
Aside from the general farming-thefield crops and stock grow- ing and feeding-comes another kindred branch not especially noted in the above calculation-that of truck gardening, which is carried on very extensively within many parts of Dauphin county, especially near the larger towns and cities. Surprisingly large crops of potatoes, cabbage, onions, beans, sweet corn, tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, wine-plant and sweet potatoes are annually produced and consumed by the residents of the county.
COAL MINES OF THE COUNTY.
While the mining interest of Dauphin county is not as great as many of her sister counties, yet it is a goodly factor in the indus- tries which go to produce her wealth. During early days explora- tions were made for coal and other minerals, in this section of the commonwealth, and really more interest, in proportion, was then manifested than at the present time, since the vast mineral wealth of other portions of Pennsylvania has been developed to such a large extent. From 1820 to 1840 discoveries of various grades of both bituminous and anthracite coal were made, and April 5, 1826, the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company was incor- porated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. Middle Paxton township was among the richest coal fields then developed. Near Port Lyon (now Dauphin) extensive mines were operated, from one to five hundred feet beneath the surface. Both hard and soft coal were successfully mined and shipped by canal
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boats. Mines were also operated at Fort Lookout, Bear Town, Big Flats and Rattling Run Gap. Trial, or test, pits were sunk five hundred feet, and good grades of coal found in veins varying from two feet to four feet in thickness. Many of the mines were provided with large air shafts for ventilating purposes. With the building of many railroads and the opening up of more paying mines the industry did not prove as profitable as in the earlier canal-boat days.
According to the 1903 Mining Reports of Pennsylvania, there were during that year mined within Dauphin county 654,437 tons of anthracite coal. The total number of men employed was 2, 140; number of days per annum worked in mines, 283; number of kegs of powder used in mines, 6,890; number of pounds of dynamite employed, 37,600.
Vast quantities of both hard and soft coal are annually shipped to this county from other sections of the State, both for domestic and manufacturing purposes. The number of tons of anthracite coal mined in Dauphin county in 1905 was 713,000.
Among the stone quarries of much value and commercial im- portance, within Dauphin county, is the Hummelstown brown-stone quarries, about three miles out from Hummelstown. These quar- ries were opened about 1867, and for about thirty years have been very extensively operated by a company owning a line of three or four miles of railroad, several locomotives and many freight cars. The plant was equipped with immense stone saw mills with many gangs; also stone planers and cutters. Dozens of steam-hoist der- ricks lift the stone from the quarry to workshops and cars. As many as six hundred men are employed in the busy season of the year. From forty to sixty freight cars of brown-stone are shipped from this place and sent to all parts of the country. No finer, more lasting or more easily worked and durable building stone is found in America, and this plant is among the largest in Pennsylvania. Tests by experts show the strength of the stone to be seven hundred tons per square foot.
DAUPHIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
A preliminary meeting to take measures to organize a historical society was held on the evening of May 10, 1869. At a subsequent meeting, held in the lecture-room of the Market Square Presbyterian Church, a constitution and by-laws were adopted and signed, and an election for officers held. Upon application to the commissioners of the county a room in the court house was secured for their use,
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subsequently fitted up, and where the society has ever since held its meetings and preserved its already valuable library. Files of all the newspapers of the country are kept and properly bound, and its collection of newspapers is a special feature. The society was incor- porated in January, 1870, and measures have been adopted to the end that whatever may be donated to the society will be permanently pre- served. What is needed is a fire-proof building for its valuable col- lection of manuscripts. The officers for 1907 are: John P. Keller, D. D. S., President ; Hon. Theodore B. Kline, First Vice-President ; Robert Snodgrass, Esq., Second Vice-President ; Benjamin M. Nead, Esq., Third Vice-President; William H. Fry, Recording Secretary; James M. Lamberton, Esq., Corresponding Secretary; William S. Rutherford, Treasurer; Donald C. Haldeman, Esq., Librarian; Lewis S. Shimmell, Ph. D., Asistant Librarian.
CHAPTER X.
THE NEWSPAPERS-THE LEGAL PROFESSION-THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
There is no instrumentality, not even excepting the pulpit and bar, which exerts over society such power as does the press of the land. The high-salaried and sometimes talented minister of the Gospel on the Sabbath day preaches to a few hundred people for thirty minutes ; but if his thoughts are well chosen and of the higher order, they are reproduced, more than a thousand fold, and are read and talked about by thousands of people. The attorney at the bar makes his eloquent plea before twelve men as jurymen, and a few score of onlookers, but the daily journals take the pathetic or sarcastic arguments there produced, and by means of type send his words, sentences and paragraphs broadcast to an eager world, who may read them thousands of miles distant. The newspaper of to- day is a great civilizing, moving and even Christianizing factor of the twentieth century, as it ever has been in the century just passed. There are but few deeds of crime or benevolence which men can enact in America to-day, that through the medium of the press may not be known and read of all men before the going down of another sun. If one desires to succeed in a business sense, he must consult the daily and weekly newspaper; if one hopes to be well informed in regard to any given line of thought or action, he must be the reader of a journal (their name now being legion) edited especially for his own calling. Every trade, school, profession, science, art, now has its own special organ, talking and arguing its specialty to the multi- tude through the medium of printer's ink. To the common people, none is sought after more than the local, or county paper. The Press is an index of any people, and Dauphin county is not wanting in this direction.
The history of newspaperdom in Harrisburg is both interesting and eventful. When the town became the capital of the State, in 1812, unnumbered ventures were made-nearly all tell the same story-premature decay! In 1830, when the place had a population of but four thousand, Harrisburg contained twelve printing offices ; six book-binderies ; published eleven newspapers and one periodical. The invested capital was $73,000.
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The history of the newspaper press in Dauphin county is quite lengthy and full of more or less interest. Much of the early-day his- tory was compiled by A. Boyd Hamilton, who edited the Platform, a campaign paper in 1854, and he is given for our authority on many points herein narrated.
It appears that the first attempt to conduct a newspaper at Har- risburg was the establishing of the Harrisburg Journal and Adver- tiser, later known as the Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburg Adver- tiser. It was founded by T. Roberts & Co., in 1789. The first issue was printed from a house "adjoining the Register's office," which was then on the northwest corner of Second and Walnut streets, near Bombach's Tavern. But shortly the office was moved to "Mulberry street, opposite the residence of Adam Boyd, Esq., near the bank," where the postoffice was also kept, then to the northeast corner of Market Square and Market street, where it remained as long as it was published. When founded the paper had a clear field, as the territory included that now known as Lebanon and Dauphin coun- ties up to 1813. It was edited with much care, great prudence, but void of any false attempt at brilliancy. Messrs. Allen & Wyeth had a well equipped office for those early times; they had both English and German type, and published neatly bound "Reflections on Courtship and Marriage, in Two Letters to a Friend." price three shillings.
October 20, 1792, the Oracle of Dauphin and Harrisburg Advertiser was controlled and conducted by John W. Allen and John Wyeth. It continued under the management of the Wyeths (John, John Jr., then by Francis) for about forty years, up to the days of anti-Masonry. Partial files are still to be seen, but some have been lost by fire. Early volumes are in the State Library collection of papers.
The imposing title of the first German newspaper in Dauphin country was Die Unparthenische Harrisburg ( Morgenrothe ) Zeitung. Its initial number bore date of March 1, 1794. It was conducted by Benjamin Mayer and Conrad Fahnestock. It was changed in August, 1800, to Die Harrisburger Morgenrothe, and in 1811 was purchased by John S. Weistling, who took as his partner Christian Gleim. During the "thirties" it was published by Babb & Hum- mel, and the name changed to The Harrisburg Morgenrothe und Cumberland County Anzeiger. It was finally discontinued in November, 1840. Christian Gleim was "a young man from Lebanontown," and was subsequently sheriff of Dauphin county. Weistling became an iron-maker.
The Farmers' Instructor and Harrisburg Currant, published
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by Benjamin Mayer, was issued January 2, 1800, first a folio, then a quarto, and, so far as we can learn, it treated almost every other subject at large except agriculture !
The Dauphin Guardian, from the press of Jacob Elder, in Second street, "next door to the Sign of the Seven Stars," com- menced in June, 1805, and continued six years. Its founder was one of the many grandsons of Rev. John Elder, of Paxton. Young Elder died early in 1816. His paper merged into the Republican in ISII.
The Times, "printed by David Wright," was first issued Sep- tember 21, 1807. It soon moved to Lancaster, the seat of gov- ernment. Its editor was Hugh Hamilton, a young lawyer. He continued to edit the organ for almost thirty years.
The Harrisburg Republican was issued by James Peacock in 18II. He conducted it about ten years, when he was made post- master. The paper was sold to others, and finally merged into the Intelligencer.
The Chronicle or Harrisburg Visitor was first issued May 8. 1813, "by William Gillmor, next door to Dr. Agnew's, and one door from the postoffice, on Walnut street." In 1815 Hugh Hamilton became a partner and its editor. It was under control of Mr. Hamilton and his son, A. Boyd Hamilton, until 1836, then was conducted by others until 1842, when its mission ended !
The Commonwealth, by John McFarland and William Green, began publication in 1818. It survived with little or no success for five years, and was numbered among the defunct.
The Pennsylvania Intelligencer, on December 5, 1820, made its appearance in the field of local journalism. In 1822 Simon Cameron became a partner of its founder, Charles Mowry, and in various hands it appeared until 1838. . The State Library contains many of its interesting volumes. Its first editor, as well as some who followed him, were masters of trenchant pens, of which they made warlike use. When political complications arose respecting a successor to Mr. Monroe, that portion of political opinion which had been led by this paper refused to follow. Then General Cameron, with happy fortune, sold to Judge Krause, who carried on a stout contest with the Jacksonians until 1828.
Der Unabhaengige Blobachter, a German weekly, commenced by William White & Co., May 22, 1822, and existed ten years. It commenced as the German oracle of Governor Hiester's friends, and was a trusted organ in Jacksonian days.
The American Patriot was issued in 1812 and 1813, with
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Alexander Hamilton as its editor. Copies of it are now very scarce.
The Ladies' Souvenir, by George E. Ludwig, issued July 21, 1827, continued six months.
The Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal, by John S. Wiestling, first issued August 12, 1827, was merged in December of the same year with the Intelligencer, under the title of Pennsylvania Intel- ligencer and Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal.
The Pennsylvanian, by Christian Gleim, in 1824 died a natural death; no file is now to be found.
The Christian Monitor, a weekly religious paper by John M. Klagy, M. D., appeared in January, 1826, and survived but three issues.
The Pennsylvania Telegraph was founded September, 1831, by Theophilus Fenn, and succeeded the Statesman Anti-Masonic Republican, founded in 1828 by John McCord. The Telegraph was published by Fenn and James A. Wallace from July, 1840, to 1843 ; by Mr. Fenn to July, 1849 ; by Fenn & Rea to August, 1849; by Fenn, Rea & Co., to October, 1849; by Fenn & Beerbower to December, 1849; Fenn & Co. to November, 1853, and sold to John J. Patterson, who consolidated it with the Whig State Journal, founded in 1850 by John J. Clyde. It also absorbed the Harrisburg Daily American, founded in December, 1850, by George Bergner & Co., and the Daily Times, founded by William H. Egle (who was later State Librarian) and Theodore F. Scheffner in 1853. Patterson, Clyde and Stephen Miller sold to Alexander K. McClure (founder of the Philadelphia Times) and James Sellers, in 1856. They sold to George Bergner and John J. Patterson, in June, 1856. McClure was retained as its editor until October, 1856. Charles H. Bergner, son of George Bergner, was publisher from August, 1874, to 1882, with Thomas F. Wilson as editor. It was purchased by the Harrisburg Telegraph Company, January, 1882, with Mr. Bergner as manager, and Mr. Wilson as editor. In October, 1883, M. W. McAlarney bought the interests of Mr. Wilson, and A. C. Nutt became managing editor. It has been published by the Harris- burg Publishing Company, with Mr. McAlarney, as manager until his death, December, 1900. It is now owned by a company recently formed, with E. J. Stackpole as its president. It began as a weekly, was published as a semi-weekly, during the legislative assembly, and the weekly has since been discontinued. The daily edition began in 1856 and has had a continuous publication. During the Civil war it was issued twice each day. It was first styled The Pennsylvania Telegraph; in December, 1857, changed to Daily Telegraph, and
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