History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 233

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534

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Fitzwatertown is situated in the southern part of the township, on the Limekiln turnpike, in the midst of the fertile valley of Sandy Run, abounding in' limestone and iron-ore. This is an old settlement, where Thomas Fitzpatrick followed lime-burning be- fore the summer of 1705 and had a grist-mill erected at an early period. It contains a store, hotel, wheel- wright and blacksmith-shop, grist-mill and about twelve ho uses. The post-office was established here before 1858. The value of lime produced in Upper Dub- lin for 1840 was stated to be twenty thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars, which was all pro- duced in this vicinity, but the business has since been greatly increased .through railroad facilities. Edge Hill Station, of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, is. only a mile distant ; yet, with all its surpassing ad-

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vantages, as may be observed, has made but very little progress for the last half-century. The grist- mill mentioned was long carried on by John Priee and is now owned by Samuel Conard. Sandy Run is a steady stream rising at the Moreland line, about three miles distant.

Jarrettown is the second largest village, and is situ- ated near the centre of the township, on the Limekiln turnpike, which was constructed in 1851. It contains a hotel, store, a three-story Odd-Fellows' Hall, two story public school-house and twenty-one houses. The post-office was established here in 1866. Gordon in his "Gazetteer," mentions this place in 1832, as containing five or six dwellings. The name of the place' was derived from Levi Jarrett, the owner of several farms in this vicinity in 1815. In 1776, John Jarrett was assessed for two hundred and thirteen aeres. The name of Jarrett, like those of Fitzwater and Dresher, has now become extinet in Upper Dublin. On the east side of the pike, in the lower part of the village, stands the Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1866. The pastors who have served are J. W. Haskins, Abel Howard, W. L. McDowell, R. Tumer, J. R. Bailey, M. Barnhill, E. C. Yerkes, A. J. Collom, E. Townsend and G. L. Schaffer. The elections of the township are now held at Jarrettown ; previous to 1840, strange to say, they had always been held at Whitemarsh, nearly five miles distant, since the origin of the county, over fifty-five years.

Dreshertown is situated at the intersection of the Limekiln turnpike with the Susquehanna Street road, and equidistant from Fitzwatertown and Jarrettown. As these two highways are ancient, they must denote an early settlement. It contains a store, grist-mill and eleven houses. A post-office was established here in 1832, and the township elections held here from 1840 until after 1856; both have since been removed to the more flourishing village of Jarrettown. George Dresher, the ancestor of the family, with his wife, Maria, arrived in Pennsylvania, in 1734, from Silesia, and settled in the vicinity of Towamencin. George Dresher, his grandson, shortly after the Revolution, moved to this vicinity, and was one of the supervisors of Upper Dublin in 1788 and 1792. Christopher Dresher, son of George, was born in 1771, and married Anna, daughter of Abraham Anders, in 1799. Their children were Agnes, Rebecca, George and Eli. Christopher Dresher, after whom the place was called, died Jann- ary 23, 1839. in this village. aged sixty-eight years. He was the owner of the farm now belonging to Jacob Barnet. Christopher Dresher was also a supervisor in 1810. George, the brother of Eli, died January 6, 1851, aged thirty-five years.

The village of Three Tons is situated in a fine, fertile section of country, at the intersection of the Horsham and Butler roads, the latter being turnpiked to Ambler, two and a half miles distant. It contains a store, hotel, school-house, several mechanic shops and five or six houses. The post-office was established

here in 1858; T. G. Torbert, postmaster. The Union Library of Upper Dublin is kept here, over the store of E. T. Comly, and now contains about two thousand volumes. It was incorporated May 25, 1840; E. T. Comly, treasurer, and Ellie Teas, secretary and librarian. The Upper Dublin Horse Company, organized many years ago, holds its annual meetings here. Recent researches establish the fact that before 1722 a well- traveled path led from Edward Farmar's mill, in Whitemarsh, through this place, to Richard Saunders' ferry, on the Neshaminy (now the village of Bridge Point, three miles south of Doylestown).

Gilkison's Corner is situated at the intersection of the Spring House and Butler road turnpikes. It con- tains a store, six or seven houses and the extensive steam tannery of Alvin D. Foust, established some thirty years ago. It was at this place where Andrew Gilkison kept a tavern in the Revolution and for some years thereafter. The Upper Dublin post-office was located here before 1827, but has been removed half a mile distant, to its more flourishing rival, Ambler, to which its name has only been recently changed.

Upper Dublin Lutheran Church .- In its vicinity this church is better known as Puff's church, and is located at the east corner of the intersection of the Susquehanna Street and Butler roads, about a mile northeast of Ambler. Concerning its history very little has heretofore been published; but with the assistance of the Rev. B. M. Schmucker, of Pottstown, one of the editors of the " Halle Reports," we are enabled to present an account of this early congregation. The organiza- tion of the church was effected in 1753 or 1754 by the Rev. John Frederick Handschuh, the resident pastor of Germantown. It is supposed, from the fact that the burying-ground was then here, that he preached several years previously at this place. The first builling was constructed of logs, of which the Rev. IT. M. Muhlenberg, of the Trappe congregation, gives us a relation in his report to Halle, dated June 18, 1754. He says,-

" Many German Lutherans reside in this neighborhood, and although new beginners and poor, they have erected a roomy school and meeting. house and have besought aid from us. Mr. Handschuh has visited them and administered the word. I visited them at their request and preached on a week-day, baptized several children in the presence of a large assemblage of German and English people, who had gathered from North Wales and other adjacent parts. As there was as yet no roof on the building, and it was difficult to preach in it, I urged the poor people to follow my example, and add their contributions to mine, so that at least one-half of the building might be roofed in, which was done."

Mr. Handschuh ministered to the congregation for several years, perhaps until 1757, when the charge devolved upon Mr. Muhlenberg, who sent his student, William Kurtz, to preach, and afterwards committed it to the care of his assistant, Rev. John Helfrich Schaum, who was settled at New Hanover, and took charge of Upper Dublin in the spring of 1758. He continued in the same until 1762, when he removed to Berks County. Mr. Muhlenberg, however, had the general oversight, and occasionally visited the con-

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gregation. In January, 1763, he administered the communion and stated that he was no longer able to minister to them. In the following June the Rev. Nicholas Kurtz took temporary charge of Germantown and Upper Dublin until June, 1764. This care of the two churches by the same pastor was now continued for many years.

The Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk had charge from 1765 to 1769; John Frederick Schmidt from 1769 to 1785. The time at which his labors ceased is uncertain, but in 1785 the congregation, in union with Tohickon and North Wales Churches, applied for the recog- nition and ordination of Anton Hecht, who had been a schoolmaster among them, which request was re- fused. Mr. Hecht, however, was ordained by some independent minister and served Tohickon and some other congregations for several years, and probably preached at Upper Dublin. In 1793, Mr. Van Buskirk settled at North Wales and probably again preached to this congregation. In 1797, Rev. Henry A. Geis- senhainer was licensed at the request of Upper Dub- lin and North Wales, and was pastor until 1801. Soon after this it was again connected with German- town, and Rev. Frederick David Schaeffer continued in charge at least until 1810, and possibly until his removal to Philadelphia, in 1812.

At some unknown time, not earlier certainly than 1810 and possibly several years later, services ceased to be held, the congregation became scattered or lost, the building disappeared and the burial-place re- mained the chief reminder of the past. Chiefly through the efforts of the Ilon. John B. Sterigere, whose kindred repose here, a charter was procured from the Legislature in 1852 for a Lutheran congre- gation at the old burial-ground so long known as Puff's. By the will of Conrad Amrich, proved in 1835, a bequest of six hundred and sixty-four dollars was made to keep the graveyard in repair. Services were held in the public school-house opposite, from 1852, with some regularity, until the erection of the present church by Revs. W. N. Baum and David Swope, of Whitemarsh Church. The corner-stone was laid October 15, 1857, and the church consecrated July 18, 1858, when Rev. John C. Baker, D.D., preached. Rev. Lewis Hippee was pastor until August, 1859; Rev. Edward J. Koons from March 3, 1860, to May 1863; Rev. George Sill from the following September to 1869; Rev. Mathias Sheeleigh from said date until the present time. The members now number about eighty.

The church is a one-story stone edifice, forty by fifty- six feet, with an iron railing in front. Worship is held here and at the Union Church of Whitemarsh alternately, the services being conducted in English. The graveyard contains about an aere of ground, and several of the earliest stones containing inscriptions are not legible. We find here the surnames of Baugh- man, Leonhart, Engard, Rodemiek, Stout, Broek, Webster, Shaffer, Rynear, Smith, MeAlonan, Fluck,

Dilthey, Rex, Baker, Collom, Hoffman, Behlmier, Swink, Thomas, Bates, Berkheimer, Snyder, Pruner, Houpt, Taylor, Sterigere, Aimen, Shay, Gilbert, Ul- rich and Timanus. The Houpts appear to be the most numerous. One stone was observed bearing the date of 1762 and another of 1770. A marble column about ten feet high has been erected here over the re- mains of the brothers Wm. L. and John B. Sterigere. The latter died at Norristown October 13 1852, aged upwards of fifty-nine years.

In connection with this subject, we may add that the aforesaid was the son of Peter and Elizabeth Sterigere, and was born in Upper Dublin in 1793. He taught school when a young man in the school-house opposite, and at the age of twenty-five received a commission as justice of the peace and also followed surveying and conveyaneing. In 1821 he was elected to the Assem- bly and continued for three years. He was elected to Congress in 1826, aud now left his native township to study law and was admitted to practice in the fall of 1829. In 1839 he was elected to the State Senate and served two terms. As a member of the Borough Coun- cil of Norristown he contributed much towards its improvement. He died unmarried and left a hand- some estate, the result of his own almost unaided ex- ertions, having been born of poor parents, and in his youth receiving but a very limited education. He was a man possessed of mental ability and force of char- arter.

Wm. Homer and his Reminiscences. - Wm. Homer was descended from a family that by an an- cient document dates back to 1684 in Byberry and per- haps Bensalem, adjoining. Mention is made of one of this name owning a farm of fifty acres in the former township in 1734, and in 1782 of two hundred aeres. It is likely the former was his grandfather, as he bore his name. His father was also William Homer, who moved from Byberry, in the spring of 1767, on the farm he purchased from James Thornton, containing one hundred and forty-four acres, sitnated in the east corner of Upper Dublin, a little over a mile north- west of the Willow Grove. Here the subject of this notice was born in July, 1767, and resided during his long life, extending nearly to a century. After he grew to manhood he married Hannah, the danghter of Morris Edwards, whom he many years survived. He had an only brother, Chilion, and two sisters. While young, in addition to working on his father's farm, he followed carpentering, and in the winter, in his work-shop, made bureaus, tables and other articles of furniture. As a mechanic he was self-taught, hav- ing a turn that way. He received a very ordinary education, having gone but to two places to school, one was near the present Dreshertown. His father, in the assessor's list for 1776, is rated for keeping two horses, four cows and six sheep,-a fair example of the amount of stock then generally kept on farms of similar size.

Several traits in the character of William Homer

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deserve mention. He had his farm divided with the requisite buildings to each, which were rented to his two sons, Cyrus and Jesse, on shares, while he re- tained for his nse a part of the old mansion. Being of a rather retiring and unassuming turn, he was given to spending a portion of his leisure with tools. He had a peculiar fondness for rearing bees, and an at- tachment to straw hives, also for pigeons, having often over a hundred together, which he loved to feed. The latter would often be shot at during autumu by dep- redating sportsmen hailing from Philadelphia and Germantown. He estimated men by their intellect or for holding landed estates like himself. He never went farther from home than to Philadelphia, Bristol, Newtown, Norristown and Doylestown, which would not exceed twenty miles. The latter place he re- membered when it contained but three or four houses. He had also been to "Buekingim" as he called it. It is supposed that he had never ridden in a stage-coach, omnibus, steamboat or railroad car. He thus passed a contented and unambitious life, was of good habits and respected by his neighbors. On the 31st of January, 1860, he died at the advanced age of ninety-two years and six months, retaining good health till near the last. Athis funeral, Henry Woodman, of Buckingham, delivered an excellent sermon. In religion he was a Friend, and he was buried in the graveyard attached to Horsham Meeting-house. He left two sons and three daughters; the former are now both deceased. Jesse Homer, the last, died on the estate March 6, 1883, in his eighty-fifth year. Extracts will now begiven from his reminiscences, taken down by the writer in casual visits to liis house fully one-third of a century ago.

He saw wild turkeys in his father's woods oeea- sionally as late as the year 1785. Turkey buzzards were frequently seen as late as the beginning of this cen- tury. Wild pigeons, at times, were seen in immense flocks, particularly in 1793, the year of the yellow fever in Philadelphia. He remembered well one flock particularly, that appeared to be about one and a half miles long and all of half a mile in breadth. Previous to 1810 they bred in great numbers in the woods, and he had counted as many as twenty nests on one tree. He had himself caught, in nets, many thousands in the spring and fall. Horses and wagons were used to convey what were thus taken. One of his nets, now almost a century old, is still preserved in the family. The last bear seen in the vicinity was in the woods, nearly a mile northeast of his house, in 1772. In his woods he also showed traces of three saw-pits, which had been used in his father's day to convert logs into boards with a whip- saw.

Concerning the Willow Grove, he related the follow- ing particulars : Here he first went to school, in a log school-house that stood near the forks of the old York and Easton roads. Joseph Butler kept the

tavern there in the Revolution, being the stand so long known as the Red Lion. While the British held possession of Philadelphia a detachment came out and took him prisoner. Divisions of the American army encamped several times in the orchard back of the tavern. The soldiers appeared to be chiefly Vir- ginians, who practiced shooting at a mark one hundred yards distant with rifles, and he stated that they got him to cut out the balls for them with a hatchet. In the skirmish of December 8, 1777, on Edge Hill, near the present Susquehanna Street road, where Morgan's regiment had twenty-seven either killed or wounded, some of the latter were brought in a wagon to Butler's tavern, where the scholars beheld them so bloody that it frightened them so that they hurried back to the school-house. Where is now the Mineral Spring Hotel lived Nathan Bewly, who followed seythe-making, and had a mill for grinding them immediately baek of his house, in the meadow, the dam being on the west side of the York road, now Rittenhouse's meadow. Ile caught sunfish there with a hook and line. Near the present intersection of the railroad and turnpike there then lived a woman called Nanny McSween, whose husband followed hunting at the Blue Moun- tains.

On the formation of Montgomery County, in 1784, the elections for thirteen townships were held at the village of Whitemarsh, nearly four miles from his farm. On those occasions a great many pugilistic encounters took place, fighting being postponed for those occasions. He remarked the great diminution taking place in streams, through elearing the land and drainage. He remembered in his vicinity the sites of three grist-mills that had long ago disap- peared, owing to a want of water. Apple-cuttings, apple-butter boilings, flax-pullings, flax-spinnings, corn-huskings and shooting-matches had become things of the past. About 1790 there resided about two miles west of him a famed " witch doctor," as he was called, of considerable practice. He was chiefly called upon to relieve children, horses and cattle thus afflicted. He was a witness more than once to his operation. He carried with him on these occasions, a large black-letter volume, bound with brass clasps, which he would open and repeat a peculiar lingo, and use certain powders to exorcise and ward off the evil influences under which it was supposed the victim had been laboring. That he possessed supernatural powers, and that witchcraft actually existed, was really believed in at this time by not a few throughout the country. Those that practiced the "doctoring " were really looked up to as following a beneficial ealling.

ASSESSMENT OF UPPER DUBLIN, 1776.

James Spencer, assessor, and Edward Burk, Jr., collector.

John Trump, 158 acres, 1 horse and 1 cow ; John Fitzwater, 300 a., 5 h., 5 c. and a grist-mill ; Mathew Fitzwater, 1 h. ; John Fitzwater, Jr. ; Ellis Lewis, 280 a., 5 h., 5 c .; John Lewis, 1 servant, 3 h., 2 c. ; Jacob llowell, 1 h., 1 c .; Joseph Nash, 100 a., 2 h., 2 c .; Jacob Tima- Ius, 100 a., 2 h., 2 c., aged ; Peter Shoemaker, 14 a., 2 b., 2c .; An-

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drew Kastner, 140 a., 2 h., 2r .; George Kastner, 140 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Stephen Brown, 75 a., 1 servant, 2 h., 2 c .; John Mann, 150 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Isaac Tyson, 150 a., 4 h., 5 c. ; Jonathan Tyson, 123 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 3 c. and a grist-mill ; Abraham Charlesworth, 200 n., 3 h., + c., aged and helpless ; John Heston, 150 a., 2 h., G c. ; Leonard Knorr, 1 h., 2 c. ; Martin Faringer, G h., &c. ; Michael Rapp, 1 h., & c., 1 servant ; Rynear Lukens, 100 a., 5 l., 4 c. ; Joseph Lukens, 100 a., 5 h., 3 c .; Isaac Kirk, 200 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Rynear Kirk, 200 a., 4 h., 5 c. ; Mathias Smith, 100 a., 1 h., 1c. ; John Culer, 7 a., 1 c. ; Davil Coler, 3 a. ; Caspar Slater, 50 a., 2 h., 2 c., has 9 children ; Mathusala Evans, 100 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Daniel Rynear, 83 a, 1 h., 3 c. ; Samuel llonpt, 95 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; George Regan, 100 a., 3 h., 5 c., 1 servant, aged : Mathew Tyson, 50 n., 1 h., 3 c .; Samuel MeCiory, 30 a., 1 h., 2c. ; Abrabam Hollis, 3 h., 2 c .; Ilenry Inghart, 100 a., 3 h., 3 c .; Edward Wells, 3 h., 3 c .; Daniel McVangh, 3 h., 2c .; Edward Burk, 50 a., nged ; Arthur Broades, 24 a., 2 h., 3 c. and a fulling-mill ; John Weiss, SO a., 2 h., 4 c. ; Lewis Kynear, SO a., 2 l., Sc. and a grist-mill ; William Homer, 140 a., 2 h., 4c. ; Christian IIerner, 150 a., 4 h., 7 c., has 7 children ; Michael Trump, 140 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Abraham Trump ; Catharine Inghart, 90 a., 1 h., I c. ; Bastian Wol- finger, 1 c .; James Sloane, 1 c .; Peter Cleaver, 150 a., 1 b. ; Na- than Cleaver, 2 h., 4 c .; John Cleaver, 100 a., 2 h., 3 c .; Jacob Romer, 50 a., 2 h., 1 c .; Henry Romer ; Isaac Cleaver, 100 a., 3 h., 2 c. ; Alexander McDowell, 130 a., 2 h., 4 c. ; Isaac Shoemaker, 100 a., 4 h., 2 c., has 7 children ; Edward Burk, 78 a., 2 h., 4c. ; Isaac Wood, 40 a .. 3 1., 2 c. ; John Burk, GO a., 3 h .; 8v. ; Jacob Cobler, 14 a., 1 h., 1 c. ; John Chestnut, 2 h., 2 c. ; John Martin, 75 a., 1 h., 1 c .; Mathias Martin, 75 a., 1 h., 1 servant ; John Trump, Jr., 100 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; John Jarrett, 213 a., 4 h., 8 c. ; John Potts, 150 a., 2 h., & c. ; John Spencer, 150 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Sammel Spencer, 150 a,, 2 h., 2 c., aged ; James Spencer, 150 a., 3 h., 3 e .; Jacob Shaneline, 2 h., 1c. ; John Robinson, 70 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; llenry Grubb, 1 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Benjamin Walton, 5 h., 3 c. ; Hannah Walton, 1 h., 1 c. ; William Brown, 2 h., 1 c. ; John Inghart, 2a., 1 h., 1 c. ; John Baker, 1 h., 1 c. ; Mark ('upp, 25 n., 1 l., 2 c .; James McDowell, 1 h., 1 c .; James Mccrory, 15 a. : John Whitcomb, 1 c. ; Peter Budey, 2 h., 2 c. ; Jacob Woolrich, 140 a., 2 h., 4 c. ; Jonathan Thomas, 9 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Rudolph Bartholomew, 2 h., 3 c. ; George Snyder ; John Jannson ; Paul Brown, 19 a., 1h., 1v. ; John Eman, Ga., 1 c. ; Joseph Seifert : Jacob Fulmore, 1 c. ; Joseph Cartwright ; George Hoffman, 1 c. ; Sammel Spencer, 30 a., 2 h., 2 č. Henry Fret. Single Men .- Amos Lewis, John Mellathery, James Brit- ton, John Faringer, George Faringer, Jacob Lukens, Christian Herner, Jr., John Sterner, Peter Lensor, John Dunlap, Benjamin Stemple, Wil- liam Inghart, Peter Inghart, John Burk, Nicholas Rynear and Amos Regan.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

CHARLES PAXSON.

Charles Paxson was the son of Joshua and Mary (Willett) Paxson, of Middletown township, near Lang- horne, Bucks Co., Pa, where he was born on the 19th of August, 1803. He was one of the younger of a family of nine children, all of whom lived to pass the middle age, and one of whom (Mrs. Anna P. Burton, widow of Anthony Burton, of Bucks County) is still living, at Germantown. It is related of these nine children that they were all possessors of vigorous health, stout and robust in person, and that at one time their ag- gregate weight exceeded two thousand pounds.

In 1808, Charles Paxson removed with his parents from Bucks County to Cheltenham township, Mont- gomery Co., where he resided with them for eigh- teen years, on the farm which is now of the estate of John W. Thomas, deceased. In 1826, he removed from the paternal homestead in Cheltenham to Upper Dublin township, where he located on a fine farni

which his father, Joshua Paxson, had purchased a few years earlier, it being a section of the old Spen- cer property, patented from William Penn. In later years it became known as the "Spring Farm," on which Mr. Paxson lived for more than half a cen- tury, until his death, and which is now the residence of his widow.

Charles Paxson was married, January 4, 1844, to Agnes, daughter of John and Sarah (Paxson) Tyson, of Abington. The families on both sides, from their early ancestors down to the present time, have been of the Society of Friends. The children of Charles and Agnes Tyson Paxson have been Sarah T. (now living at the Paxson homestead), Joshua W., Anna B., Josephine (died in July, 1883) and Charles S. Paxson. Their father, Charles Paxson, died at his home, in Upper Dublin township, on the 2d of March, 1880, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His re- mains were interred in the family lot in the Friends' graveyard at Abington.

At the time of his death Mr. Paxson was the owner of two farms, situated on the Limekiln, Horsham and Welsh roads, and aggregating two hundred and eighty-five acres of excellent and well-watered lands. He was a practical farmer, of advanced ideas, who pursued his chosen vocation with the intelligence, enterprise and industry which seldom, if ever, fail to yield the return which they gave to him,-that of abundant success. He possessed a firm will, a noble spirit and a genial nature. He ever gave his sup- port to the wise reforms of his day, as opposed to traditional wrong and depredation, and he took es- pecial delight in the eloquence of orators who, like Phillips, uttered what he termed sublime truths in advocacy of the righteousness which exalteth a nation. At the time of his death a gifted writer, who had known Mr. Paxson well and intimately through life, paid this truthful tribute to his memory : "The deceased was possessed of traits of character that, wherever found, adorn human nature. He was a good neighbor, a kind friend, an affectionate hus- band and a kind, considerate father; beyond these he was a just man, a liberal Christian, a patriotic citizen and an earnest reformer ; a lover and helper of every good work that was going on in the world, that came within his cognizance. He was one of a half-dozen noble men in his neighborhood who uplifted the ban- ner of anti-slavery in the beginning, in the time that truly tried men's souls, and maintained it to the end, not aggressively, but patiently, steadfastly, and with- out a thought of consequences or of giving up the contest while the wrong existed."

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History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 233

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1534

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534