History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Part 128

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1150

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Carpet-Factory. - In May, 1882, Wolfenden, Brother & Chism began the erection of a two-story brick carpet-factory, forty by fifty feet, which was completed and put in operation in July of that year. The mills mannfacture from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five yards of body Brussels carpet daily, employing four looms and fourteen oper- atives.

The Horntown Tannery .- In 1790, John Horn, of Horntown, owned and carried on a tan-yard at Horn- town, which was discontinued prior to 1812.

Crime .- On Monday, Nov. 25, 1844, the body of a female child was found in Darby Creek, near Calcoon Hook, at "Deep Hole," inclosed in a grain-sack, a napkin tied around the neck and head so as to cover the whole face. The indications were that the body

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had been in the water nearly two weeks. A post- mortem examination was made, which disclosed the fact that the child was three months old, and alive when thrown into the water. Alexander Harris, alias Dobson, was tried for the murder of the infant on May 27, 1845, and acquitted by the jury.1

At the May conrt, 1850, George W. Horner, a young man, and Lonisa Howard, a young woman with whom he lived, were tried on several indict- ments charging them with a number of robberies in Upper Darby, Haverford, and other localities in the northern section of the county. The house of Ben- jamin D. Garrignes was entered, and a hired man, returning at a late bonr, discovered that the dwelling had been broken into. Pursuit was at once made, a wagon was overtaken, from which the driver sprang and ran away. The stolen property was found in the vehicle. The horse the next day was placed in the custody of a detective officer, who, finding that the animal manifested a desire to go towards Darby, gave him a free rein, and he continued until he stopped at Horner's house, on the Haverford road just north of the village. The dwelling was searched, and much stolen property found therein. Horner was convicted on three indictments, and sentenced to five years in the Eastern Penitentiary on each indictment. Lonisa Howard was convicted of receiving stolen goods, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. In May, 1851, Governor Shunk pardoned Horner, leaving his woman accomplice to serve her term of punish- ment.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR DARBY TOWNSHIP.

Benjamin Brannon ... Aug. 19, 1791

Israel Elliot ..

.Oct. 28, 1791

Benjamin W. Oakford ..

.Feb. 14, 1794

Caleb S Sayere ...

Aug. 6,1799

Benjamin Hayes Smith April 3, 1804

Samuel Davie.

Feb 20,1810

Thomas Smith

.July

3, 1821

Joseph G Malcolm

July 30, 1831

Thomas Maddock

Jau. 8. 1834

Charles Sellers.

.. June 20, 1836

Philip Sipler.

.. Ang. 14, 1840

Thomas Smith .Aug. 14, 1840

Philip Sipler. .April 15, 1845

Anthony J. Jordan. June

1, 1850

William Russell, Jr

April 15, 1855

William Russell .April 14, 1857

Samuel Taylor

May

3,1859

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

JAMES ANDREWS.

James Andrews was born Dec. 1, 1795, in Darby township within the present limits of Darby borough, his father, James Andrews, having removed from Wilmington, Del., to the township of Darby when a yonng man, where he married Martha Bunting, danghter of Josiah Bunting, thus connecting the subject of this sketch through his mother with the oldest residents of that early-settled township. When a boy he attended the Friends' school in Darby,

where so many of his ancestors had received their education, and filled the position of teacher in this school while still in his minority. He early left to accept a position in the lumber business with the firm of Watson & Bnnting, of Philadelphia, a brother of his mother being a member of the firm. In connec- tion with the late James R. Greaves, he later suc- ceeded to the business under the firm-name of Greaves & Andrews, and still later as J. and J. B. Andrews & Co. Owing to failing health, abont the year 1837, James Andrews purchased a farm in Darby with the intention of making it his summer home, but soon became so much interested in the occupations of a farmer as to give np his winter residence in the city and make the country his permanent home. He was a birthright member of the society of Friends, the ancestors of both his father and mother having emi- grated to this country on account of their religions belief. He was always a consistent member, taking an active part in the affairs of the society, and fre- qnently accompanying as companion public ministers in their religions visits. A useful, public-spirited citizen, benevolent, modest, and unassuming in his in- tercourse with his fellow-citizens, he was in all re- spects a model man, through life being honored with many positions of trust and responsibility. In politics he had decided views, and took an active part, first as Whig and afterwards as a Republican, in the ques- tions of the day. In 1851 his fellow-citizens elected him to the office of associate jndge of Delaware County, which position he assnmed on his fifty-sixth birthday, and held for fifteen years, declining a re- election on account of his age. In 1825 he married Hannah, danghter of Charles Lloyd, whose children were two sons and five danghters, one son and four danghters surviving him. In his domestic life Mr. Andrews was extremely happy. After the decease of his wife, on the 20th of June, 1868, life seeming to have lost its chief attraction, his health failed rapidly. On the 24th of September, 1869, his children laid him to rest in the old graveyard at Darby, by the side of her whom in life he had loved so well.

CHAPTER XLI.

DARBY BOROUGH.

DOUBTLESS the early settlers in the neighborhood of Darby, where the mills were located, soon began to regard the locality, which subsequently became the village, as an important centre, and there donbtless soon settled the blacksmith after the custom of horse- shoeing came in vogue,-which was not generally recognized until the middle of the last century,-and wagons were in nse among the farmers-still later than horseshoeing-it became a place of consequence

I See ante, p. 177.

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to the surrounding districts. In all the early orders of courts and reports of grand juries, in which Darby is mentioned as a particular point where a road begins or ends, the allusion is doubtless to the village, and there were located the stocks, erected in 1731, for which the then overseers of the poor, Samuel Horn and Edward Williams, in the quaint "Record for the Poor of Darby Township" claim credit,-

By Cash payed to Benjamin Peirson, Jun" for Building Stocke £ 8. d.

for the Township of Darby. 0 10 0 By Cash payed to David Thomas for Iron Work Done for the 0 2 8 Stocks.

Dr. Smith, who had access to the early township books1 of Darby, gave the following extracts from the proceedings in 1694 :

" Agreed that this meeting begin at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, and that the constable give notice the first day before.

" And it is also agreed that the said town's meeting be held on the third day of the last week in the twelfth month to appoint officers for the Ensuing year, at which time the officers is to give up their accounts.

" Agreed that none of the inhabitants of this Town take any horses or maree either to keep in winter or summer, nor no cattle in summer except they keep them within their own fenced lande, upon the penalty of five shillings per head for every month."

The freemen of the township at these gatherings also exercised legislative powers, as is evident from the following extract from the township books:

" Agreed at a town meeting, 1697, that all plantations ye lands not Joyning upon the road, that four of the Neighbours shall be chosen to lay out a convenient way as they shall see meet to the next convenient road, and beiog so done shall stand firm and not be blocked up with trees or plantations.

"Signed on behalf of the " Town by " THO. WORTH."2

The first direct mention of Darby village, for the allusion of Gabriel Thomas to " Derby town," in 1698, does not prove that anything other than the mills were located there at the date given, is in the journal of Miss Sarah Eve, when, under date of Oct. 17, 1773, on returning from a visit to Chester, she says, " After we left Chester it began to rain pretty hard, and con- tinued until we were near Darby. I could not help thinking of what Thomson said of Brentford was very applicable to that place, that is, that it was a town of mud. Foolish creatures to build a town in such a hole and have such delightful hills on each side of them, but who knows the reason."3 During the official correspondence of the Revolutionary war, Darby is constantly mentioned as designating a particular locality, a village. At the beginning of this century it is thus described :

"Darby is situated about seven miles and a half from Philadelphia; on the east side of the creek of the same name that empties into the Delaware a little above Chester. It contains about fifty or sixty houses and has a Friends' meeting-house." 4

Thirty-four years later (in 1836) the Upland Union published a description of Delaware County, and the various boroughs .and villages contained within its territory. The account says,-

"Darby is next in importance to Chester. It is on the Southern great road about seven miles from Phil- adelphia by a good turnpike. It contains a Friends' meeting-house, Mount Zion Methodist church, a lyceum, a library company, a printing-office, four public-houses, three stores, a cotton-factory, a post- office, and about sixty dwelling-houses, and many elegant dwellings on the Haverford road."

The ancient village of Darby under the same time- honored name was incorporated into a borough, May 3, 1853, the act specifying the boundaries as follows :

"Beginning at a cedar tree on the Heverford Road on a line between A. Worrell and George Lincoln's land ; thence along the line of said Worrell and Lincoln to Darby Creek ; thence down said creek to the line of loxac L. Bartram and the heirs of John Ashland; thence along the line of said Bartram and Achland crossing the Springfield road and the Ganie line continned between Isaac Bartram and John B. Bartram to a point on said line that ie intersected by a line along a lane running from the Chester road between the lands of John Jackson and Samuel Cro- there to a corner of said John Jackson's land; thence along the line of said Jackson's land and passing through lande of Jonathan Hescock and Paxson Price to Darby Creek ; and thence up said creek to a point op- posite the line of between Elizabeth Grover and Benjamin E. Moore ; thence along said line of Moore and Grover and William Lincoln to the west side of a private lane; thence along eaid private lane to the Phila- delphis and Darby plank road ; thence along eaid plank road on the south side of Cobb's Creek ; thence up said creek to the corner of Hall Pennell'e aud Lewis Passmure's land; thence along the line of ssid Peo- Dell and Passmore to said Peonell and Benjamin Serrill's land; thence along the line of Pennell and Serrill to Thomas L. Bonsall'e land ; thence on the line of said Pennell and Boneall to the land late of Jacob Lincoln, deceased ; thence along the line of Pennell and Lincoln to Jabez Bunt- ing'e land; thence on the line of Jebez Bunting and said Penoell to Bunting's lane; thence crossing said lane on the line of Jabez Bunting and Anne Bunting to a corner continuing oo the same course to John H. Bunting's land; thence along a southwest course along the land of Jabez Bunting and John H. Buating to Josiah Bunting'e land; thence by the same course between Jabez and Josiah Buntiog to Joseph Bunt- ing's land ; and thence a straight course to the place of beginning."

The election for borough officers was held on the third Friday in May following the date of the act of incorporation. The names of the burgesses aud mem- bers of Council who have served from the organiza- tion of the borough to the present time, are as follows:

BURGESSES.

1853, William Jones; 1854, Anthony J. Jordao ; 1855-57, William Jones; 1858, Jacob S. Serrill ; 1859-63, William Jones ; 1864-65, Jacob S. Serrill; 1866, Joseph M. Bunting; 1867-68, George L. Patchell; 1869-73, Isaac T. Jones; 1874-75, Charles Lloyd ; 1876-77, Hugh Lloyd; 1878, Jacob S. Serrill; 1878-80, John W. Griswold; 1881, George L. Patchell ; 1882-84, W. L. Verlenden.

MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

1853 .- Philip Sipler, William D. H. Serrill, William Russell, Jr., John Verlenden, Samuel P. Serrill, William Lincoln, Joseph L. Sager. 1854 .- John Verlendeo, William Lincoln, Paxson Rice, James Andrews, George Serrill, Maris W. Lewis, Joseph M. Bunting. 1855 .- Philip Sipler, Maris W. Lewis, Anthony S. Jordan, Joho Verlen- den, Thomas L. Bonsall, Hugh Lloyd, William H. Malin. 1856,-Joseph M. Buntiog, Anthony S. Jordan, Thomas L. Bond, Wil- liam H. Malin, Philip Sipler, Hugh Lloyd, John Verlenden.

1857 .- Joseph M. Buoting, John Verlenden, Thomas L. Bartram, John M. Andrews, Thomas L. Boneall, Hugh Lloyd, Philip Sipler.

1858 .- Joseph L. Buoting, John M. Andrews; Philip Sipler, John Ver- lenden, Hugh Lloyd, Joseph Bunting.

1 History of Delaware County, p. 188. The township booke at that early period could not be found by the writer, although every effort was made to learo if they were still accessible.

2 Smith's " History of Delaware County," p. 384.

8 Penna. Mag. of Hist., vol. v. p. 201.

4 Travellers' Directory, Philadelphia, 1802.

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1859 .- Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, Joho Verlenden, Hugh Lluyd, Jacob S. Serrill, James B. Conover, George Mckenry.

1860 .- Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, John Verlenden, Jacob S. Serrill, Isaac L Bartram, Daniel S. White.

1861 .- Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, Daniel S. White, John Verlenden, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, Joseph L. Sager.

1862 .- Joseph M. Bunting, Thomas L. Bartram, Daniel S. White, John Verleoden, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, George S. Truman.

1863,-Daniel S. White, John Verlendeo, George Serrill, Thomas Palmer, Isaac L. Bartram, Joseph Bunting.

1864 .- Isaac L. Bartram, J. Charles Andrews, John Verlenden, Joseph Bunting, George Serrill, Isaac T. Jones.

1865 .- Daniel S. White, J. Charles Andrews, Isaac T. Jones, Thomas L. Bartram, John Verlenden, Joseph M. Buntiog.

1866 .- J. Charles Andrews, Daniel S. White, T. Chalkley Bartram, D. Taylor, John Lord, Washingtoo B. Levis.

1867 .- Daniel S. White, J. Charles Andrews, Hugh Lloyd, George Ser- rill, Charles Bousall, Jr., Charles Tribit.

1868 .- Daniel S. White, J. Charles Andrews, Ilugh Lloyd, Charles Bon- sall, Jr., Hugh Lloyd, Charles W. Lloyd, W. Inne Verlenden.

1869 .- Daniel S. White, Charles W. Lloyd, George Serrill, George S. Patchell, Daniel S. White.

1870 .- George Serrill, Charles Bonsall, Hugh Lloyd, Charles W. Lloyd, W. L. Verleoden.

1871 .- Charles W. Lloyd, Daniel S. White, George Serrill, Hugh P. Lloyd, Charles Bonsall, W. L. Verlenden, George Ash, Jr.

1872 .- Hugh P. Lloyd, Charles Lloyd, D. S. White, George Serrill, Charles Booeall, J. Charles Aodrewe, W. L. Verlenden.

1873 .- J. Charles Andrewe, Charles Lloyd, John W. Griswold, Mordecai Sheldrake, Samuel W. Shaw, Oswald Patchell.

1874 .- J. C. Andrews, Jobo M. Miller, Charles Bonsell, George Serrill, Harry Peale, John Knowlton.

1875 .- J. C. Andrewa, James A. Lloyd, Charles Boosall, Harry Peale, W. L. Varlenden, Eoos Verlenden, John Guest.

1876 .- T. Chalkley Bartram, Hugh Lloyd, John Guest, O. C. Armstrong, Peter Clark, W. R. Taylor, Henry W. Nagle.

1877 .- Daniel S. Whits, T. C. Bartram, Joseph Buntiog, Jr., William R. Taylor, Peter Clark, A. J. Russell, Charles Lloyd.

1878 .- Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, Samuel Mackey, W. S. Bunting, Thomas Brooke, John Wolfenden, Daniel S. White.

1879 .- Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, James M. Damon, Alonzo Heapes, Hugh Lloyd, Charles Tribit, Richard Lancaster, Jr.

1880 .- Charles Lloyd, Peter Clark, George Grayson, John Wolfenden, Alonzo Heapee, George W. Bunting, James E. Combs.

1881 .- Joseph Bunting, Jr., Peter Clark, John M. Damon, George Gray- son, Robert Green, Charles Lloyd, Edward D. Sipler.

1882 .- George Grayson, George N. Griffith, Elwood H. James, Parkhurst Mclaughlin, William Maris, George B, Painter, Jacob K. Ulrich.

1883 .- Joseph Buntiog, Jr., Peter Clark, George Drewes, Alonzo Heapes, Daniel W. Kelly, Jobn Massey.

1884 .- Joseph Bunting, Jr., Nathan D. Bartram, George Drewes, Thomas Garvin, Alonzo Heapss, D. W. Kelly, John Massey.

Darby Mills .- The history of the Griswold Mills is particularly interesting, for it connects the present with the early industries of colonial days. Iu the summer of 1671, Capt. Carr, the English Deputy Governor on the Delaware, in a letter to Governor Lovelace, in New York, made certain suggestions as to affairs on the South River. Under the eleventh point he wrote,-

" That there being s mill or most (if not all) the appurtenances there- unto belonging, up Delaware River, at ye Carcoon'e Hooke, woh did here- tofore appertain to ye Publique & now is endeavoured to be engrossed by some particular persons for their private use. It may be recommended to be taken into his Royall Highness, or his Deputyes hande, hy web some Beneftt will accrew, & being kept in good Repaire will be of a publique and Gen" Good to ye Inhabitants." 1

On June 14th the Governor and Council replied,-

1 " Proposal of Capt. Carr," Penna. Archives, 2d Series, vol. vii. p. 737.

" As to ye 11th concerning ye mill, as aleo oue paire of millstones not used but lying in y. Mud or Water. It is ordered that care be taken for ye Letting out ye said Mill for ye best advantage to some persone who will undertake ye game & that ye proffitt thereof be reserved for ye pub" lige, & for ye milletones not used. They are to be taken up and preerved till further Ordr. "12

The mill mentioned in Capt. Carr's letter was the old Swede mill at the Blue Bell, on Cobb's Creek, which, after acquisition of the territory by William Penn under his charter from the crown, gradually fell into disfavor with the public. It was, how- ever, in use in 1684, for in an account of the early times, preserved among the descendants of Isaac Mar- riot, of Bristol, Pa., it is stated that when Friends' Yearly Meeting was held at Burlington, N. J., in that year the family wanting some fine flour, Isaac Marriot took wheat on horseback to this mill, which was twenty-six miles from his residence, to be ground.

The first record of a mill in Darby township occurs in the evidence given in a case tried at the court held March 10, 1687, when Thomas Bowles was arraigned for shooting hogs not his own running in the woods. The animals belonged to Thomas Smith. John Hen- drickson testified that in the preceding fall (1686) "he was up at the mill on Darby Creek when he heard two gunnes go off," aud when he went to where the firing was, he saw the defendant with his gun pre- sented." John Hay, who was with him, said " Bowles was an old fool for shooting twice and missing."

At that time the old Swedish mill had fallen iuto disuse or was unable to do the work required of it, and the demand for a mill was pressing, for at the Novem- ber court, 1678, five years before William Wood set- tled at Darby, the matter came before the justices, who declared that " Itt being taken into Consideracon that itt was verry necessary that a mill be built on the Schuylkill, and there being no fitter place than the faall Called Capt. hans moensen's faall ; The Cort are of opinion that Either Capta hans moens ought to build a mill there (as hee sayes that hee will) or Else suffer an other to Build for the Common Good of ye parts."" The location of this proposed mill was on " Hans Moensen's Great Mill Fall"' or " Run," which was the stream which empties into the Schuylkill south of Woodland Cemetery and north of Gray's Ferry.

William Wood emigrated from Nottingham, Eng- land, with his wife and family, in 1683, and settled at Darby, where he acquired three hundred and twenty acres, which plot included all the land on which the original village of Darby stood, the tract reaching northward to Friends' meeting-house lot and south- ward to the junction of Cobb's and Darby Creeks. On the latter stream William Wood built the mills, or if he did not his son Joseph Wood did, to whom the property descended in 1685, on the death of his father, William. In 1693, John Bethel took charge of these mills, which he subsequently purchased, for June 7,

2 Th., p. 739.

3 Recorde of Upland Court, p. 115.

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1695, Joseph Wood, in open court acknowledged a deed for nine acres-the mill tract-to Bethel. The next year, Dec. 8, 1696, John Bethel sold to Samuel Carpenter, the noted merchant of Philadelphia in those early days, a half-interest in several tracts of land, one being nine acres on Darby Creek, "Upon which last-mentioned piece of land there is three water grist-mills and a fulling mill lately erected." In the same deed it is stated that on the same day of the date of the deed to Carpenter, Bethel had purchased from John Blunston "all that millcat race or Trench digged in and through the said Blunston's land and meadow, from the said Darhy Creek toward the said mills." This mill-race to-day follows the course " digged" nearly two centuries ago through Blunston's land. There seems to have been some defect in the deed made to Samuel Carpenter in 1696, for on Jan. 14, 1698, John Bethel, by his friend David Lloyd, ac- knowledged in open court a deed to Samuel Carpen- ter, " for the moiety of Darby Mills with the Houses, Improvements, and impliments thereunto belonging," the deed being dated Oct. 13, 1697. Previous to the sale to John Bethel, on the 9th of Twelfth month, 1687, the road leading from Darby to Radnor was laid out. In the assessment made in 1695, the Darby and Chester mills were each rated at one hundred pounds, and they were the most valuable properties in the county.

In Gabriel Thomas' " History of Pennsylvania," printed in 1698, he mentions " the famous Darby River, which comes down from the country by Darby town, wherein are several mills, viz.,-fulling-mills, corn-mills," etc. On a draft of the Queen's road from Darby to Chester, now in possession of Hon. Jacob Serrill, of Darby, made in 1705, these mills are dis- tinctly marked. John Bethel remained at these mills until his death, which occurred before 1708, for on the 26th of August, in that year, John Bethel, of Darby, miller, son and heir of John Bethel, late of Darby, also a miller, confirmed the sale of a part interest in the mills to his brother-in-law, Job Harvey, "Stuffor." This deed recites that John Bethel, Sr., was seized in his lifetime of all those water-, corn-, or grist-mills, and a fulling-mill, " commonly called or known by the name of Darby Mills," and John Bethel, Sr., in his lifetime had sold to his son-in-law, Job Harvey, one-fourth part of the messuage "whereon the said Job now dwells, and also of said fulling-mill." From this it is evident that John Bethel, the younger, was carrying on the grist-mill, and Job Harvey the fulling- mill at the time John Bethel, the elder, died. About 1725, Job Harvey purchased the fulling-mill on Ridley Creek, now the site of the Media Water-Works.

purtenances. The fulling-mill was not mentioned in the deed. In 1764, Richard Lloyd having died, and his widow married to Lewis Davis, the property was vested in Lewis Davis, Isaac Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd, the two last named being the sons of Richard Lloyd. From 1764 to 1802 the mills were assessed to Isaac Lloyd, who, in 1782, built a saw-mill, and from 1802 to 1814 to Richard Lloyd, at which date they were the property of Thomas Steel. While the Darby Mill was operated by Isaac Lloyd, Capt. James Ser- rill was one of his apprentices, and learned the trade of a miller.

The first mention of the name of Steel is in an assessment of the county in 1766, in Upper Darby township, when James Steel was assessed on a grist- mill. He is later followed by Thomas Steel, who ap- pears in Upper Darby until 1814. He removed to Darby township the next year, where he had the old Darby Mills. In 1826 the capacity of these was thirty to forty thousand bushels of grain, and of two to three hundred thousand feet of lumber per annum. They were owned by Thomas Steel until 1861, but while he held title he had sold them several times, but for some reason was compelled to take them from the purchasers. On one occa- sion they were sold to an Englishman, who tore out the grist-mill machinery, with the intention of enlarging the buildings, which he failed to do, and Thomas Steel was compelled to refit them at a con- siderable outlay of money. In 1861 the property, including the fulling-mill, was purchased by Simeon Lord, and occupied by Joseph L. Saeger. On July 2, 1862, they were destroyed by fire. The same year Simeon Lord built Mill No. 1, which, on May 15, 1867, was partially burned. Again the owner repaired the mill, which he operated as a worsted-factory for several years, when they were sold by the sheriff to John Cattell, who enlarged the building and sold the property to William A. Griswold. It is now used by the Griswold Worsted Company (Limited) as a worsted- factory. Mill No. 1 is a three-storied stone building, three hundred by forty-five feet. In 1880, William A. Griswold erected along the creek, and a short dis- tance farther down, Mill No. 2, a four-story brick building, one hundred and fifty-seven by fifty feet, for the manufacture of silk yarn. The machinery in these mills is driven by two engines of one hundred and sixty-five horse-power each. The Griswold Worsted Company (Limited) was organized in 1882, and the mills are at present operated by that com- pany.

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History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Part 128

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Ashmead, Henry Graham, 1838-1920
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : L.H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1150