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David Nathan, Norristown. Milton K. Neiffer, Wyncote. Howard Y. Neiman, Pottstown.
Percival Nicholson, Ardmore.
Percy H. Corson, Plymouth Meeting.
Edward F. Corson, Cynwyd. George Cordonna, Norristown. Malcom S. Councill, Bryn Mawr. A. J. Craig, Fort Washington. Sumner H. Cross, Jenkintown.
James Crowe, Huntingdon Valley. A. Lovett Dewees, Haverford.
Wallace W. Dill, Norristown.
Charles F. Doran, Phoenixville.
H. H. Drake, Norristown. J. Lawrence Eisenberg, Norristown. Alexander Rae Evans, Norristown.
Robert E. Elmer, Wayne.
Joseph M. Ellenberger, Norristown.
Remo Fabbri, Norristown.
Clarence T. Fairies, Narberth.
DeLorme T. Fordyce, Conshohocken. Robert G. Gamble, Haverford.
Albert Rowland Garner, Norristown.
Alfred O. Gery, East Greenville.
Henry Graber, Royersford. Andrew Godfrey, Ambler.
J. Elmer Gotwals (outside county). Paul D. Hanley, Pottstown. George F. Hartman, Norristown. John Harvey, Bryn Mawr.
Richard H. Harris, Elkins Park.
Howard W. Hassell, Bridgeport.
Oliver C. Heffner, Pottstown.
Robert S. Heffner, Pottstown. A. C. Herman, Lansdale. George N. Highley, Conshohocken. Mary H. P. Hough, Ambler. B. F. Hubley, Norristown. J. N. Hunsberger, Pennsburg. Isadore Hurwitz, Norristown. George R. Irwin, Norristown. Jessie P. Janjigian (outside county). Arthur H. Jago, Ardmore. Elmer A. Kell (outside county). George A. Kerling, Pennsburg. Alexander H. O'Neal, St. Davids. Frank C. Parker, Norristown. W. M. Parkinson (outside county.) John D. Perkins, Jr., Conshohocken. Henry C. Podall, Norristown. J. Elmer Porter, Pottstown.
T. Elwood Quinn, Jenkintown. Norman H. Rahn, Souderton. Frank M. Ramsey, Chestnut Hill.
Robert W. Randall, Royersford. Alfred H. Read, Norristown. Henry D. Reed, Pottstown. Willis Read Roberts, Norristown. Isaac B. Roberts, Llanerch. C. Atwood Rose, Ardmore.
John A. Roth, Red Hill.
John Rouse, Fox Chase. Aaron L. Roth, Conshohocken.
Harvey F. Scholl (outside county).
N. Nathan School, Kulpsville.
J. Howard Seiple, Center Square.
George W. Stein, Norristown. Walter J. Stein, Ardmore. Warren B. Shaner, Pottstown.
Isaac H. Shelly, Ambler.
James A. Shelly, Ambler.
John S. Sharpe, Haverford. Frederick C. Sharpless, Rosemont.
Herbert B. Shearer, Worcester. John B. Sherbon, Pottstown. William C. Sheehan, Chestnut Hill.
John C. Simpson, Norristown. H. Forsythe Stapp, Pottstown. Samuel B. Sturgis, Ardmore. Herbert W. Taylor, Haverford. J. Quincy Thomas, Norristown.
Munroe H. Tunnell, Bryn Mawr. Howard E. Twining, Glenside.
Benjamin A. Tyler, Royersford.
Frederick W. Van Buskirk, Pottstown.
Wentworth D. Vedder, Pottstown. William J. Watson, Norristown.
Vincent Z. Keeler, Harleysville.
Russell R. Keeler, Harleysville.
James M. Keaton, Ardmore. Ammon C. Kershner, Norristown.
Reinoehl Knipe, Norristown.
William H. Knipe, Limerick.
Jeremiah A. Klotz, East Greenville.
Elmer G. Kreible, Norristown. E. A. Krusen, Norristown. H. Pearce Lakin, Lansdale. James C. Landis, Pennsburg. Frederick B. Little, Norristown. John A. Logan, Hatboro. Clark S. Long, Lansdale. George T. Lukens, Conshohocken.
W. Stuart Watson, Cheltenham.
S. Nelson Wiley (outside county). T. Edmond Wills, Pottstown. John G. Wilson (State Hospital). J. R. V. Wolfe, Norristown. W. J. Wright, Skippack. Charles R. Wylie, Pottstown. Walter A. Yeakle, Norristown.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
David H. Bergey, Philadelphia. Samuel C. Seiple, Center Square. Samuel Wolfe, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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HILL SCHOOL, POTTSTOWN
POTTSTOWN HOSPITAL
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Hospitals-This county is listed among the sections of country where up-to-date public and private hospitals obtain, tending to show the advanced methods of the humane side of life. While near the city of Philadelphia where numerous hospitals abound, there are ample accom- modations in this county, a manufacturing center, too, for all who need the scientific care given by modern hospitals with their corps of trained nurses and skillful physicians and surgeons. Norristown has two hos- pitals-the Montgomery Hospital and Riverside Hospital. The former was known as "Charity Hospital" until 1920, when its name was changed. This hospital was established in 1889, history of which see later. River- side Hospital is a private institution, of which Dr. McElhatton, of Nor- ristown, is the proprietor.
Pottstown has two creditable hospitals-the oldest one is known as the Pottstown Hospital, and is fully equipped for doing good service in the community in which it is situated. The other hospital of that bor- ough is the Homeopathic Hospital, of more recent origin, and is con- ducted along the latest known usages of homeopathic treatment. The hospital at Bryn Mawr is not of the class receiving State financial aid, but is an old, well regulated and highly successful institution. The only other hospital within Montgomery county is the one at Abington, which is taking care of most of the local cases in its community and is well equipped and carefully conducted. See history later in this chapter.
The Montgomery County Hospital at Norristown is the largest hos- pital in the county. It was first conducted in 1889-90. The first move toward its establishment was January 10, 1889. The ladies of the com- munity held bazaars, and other means were used to create a building fund, and the first year $6,667 was raised, after which the Commonwealth made an appropriation to the institution amounting to $5,000. Land was purchased, and the building went forward. The total cost of the real estate and all improvements up to 1890 was $17,110. The buildings stand at the corner of Basin and Powell streets. The present number of beds for patients is eighty. The legal abstract of the name and changes, shows the following: January 23, 1889, was filed petition for the hospital incorporation to be known as the "Norristown Hospital and Dispensary." March 4, 1889, on motion of Theo. W. Bean, a charter was granted, and it was recorded March 15 that year in Miscellaneous Book No. 29, page 414. The name was changed May 19, 1890, on motion of J. W. Berkel, and it was decreed that the name should be changed to "Charity Hospital of Montgomery County." June 20, 1890, this was duly recorded in Miscellaneous Book 31, page 298. Again the name was changed in the spring of 1920 to "Montgomery Hospital." Its original officers and directors were as follows: President, N. R. Haines; vice- presidents, R. Wilson Perry and Remandus Sheetz ; secretary, J. Clinton Sellers; treasurer, Mrs. Sarah S. Rex. Directors-Rev. Isaac Gibson.
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Dr. John W. Loch, William Rennyson, J. Morton Brown, I. N. Harrar, Joseph Shaw, Isaac W. Smith, John W. Bickel, John Slingluff, Walter H. Cooke, and J. P. Hale Jenkins
The present (1923) officers and directors are as follows: President, Nicholas H. Larzelere ; vice-presidents, Charles Major, A. T. Eastwick ; secretary, Walter R. Moyer; treasurer, Norristown Trust Company ; solicitor, John M. Dettra. Directors-Mrs. Louis M. Childs, A. T. East- wick, Henry I. Fox, H. H. Ganser, Harvey C. Gresh, George F. Hart- man, M. D., A. Markley Harry, John Kearns, Miss Mary H. Loch, Charles Major, H. Severn Regar, David H. Ross, Hon. William F. Solly, Mrs. Henry C. Wentz, Howard Wood, Jr .; superintendent, Agnes C. Shore, R. N .; resident physician, Dr. M. Weimer. The Medical Board includes Chief Surgeon Dr. Alfred C. Wood, with six surgeons and two assistant surgeons. The medical staff includes twenty local physicians, covering specialties in various classes of diseases. Then besides this array of medical men, is the auxiliary staff of thirty-two physicians, from nearly every borough in the county. Of the Women's Department, it may be said that the president is Mrs. Henry C. Wentz ; vice-presidents, Mrs. George H. Coughlin, Mrs. John M. Dettra. The auxiliary also has a full set of officers.
The abstract of the Pottstown Hospital show these dates: Filing of application for charter, February 12, 1889; charter granted, May II, 1889; recording of charter, April 8, 1889; dedicated and open for patients, May 30, 1893. The buildings were secured at first by an endowment from John H. Krause, of $20,000, if the town would raise $20,000 more. Miss Annie Engle, with the help of the King's Daughters Circle, made it possible to secure the needed $20,000. The first president was Wil- liam Beecher, he being at the head of the board of trustees. Dr. John Todd was the first president of the staff of physicians. The present esti- mated value of the entire plant is $105,000. The institution is an eighty- bed hospital, located in the northeastern part of the borough of Potts- town. The buildings are of handsome red brick. The board of trustees at present : Frederick H. Keiser, president; William H. Maxwell, sec- retary ; Harrie H. Burdan, treasurer; Harry F. Hallman, Comly B. Shoemaker, Frank Auchenbach, William E. Mills. The present board of managers : Mrs. John B. Evans, president ; Mrs. James Reigner, vice- president; Mrs. F. E. Kelley, second vice-president; Mrs. George E. Faber, secretary ; Mrs. L. F. Nagle, treasurer ; Miss Minnie Miller, cor- responding secretary; and twenty-five other ladies (local and out of town) complete the list of managers, who meet the second day of each month at the Hospital. The president of the medical staff is J. E. Por- ter, M. D .; W. B. Shaner, M .D., secretary.
This is one of Pennsylvania's fully up-to-date hospitals in the fullest extent of the term. On December 28, 1922, a bronze tablet with cast por-
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trait, in memory of Miss Harriet Lorraine Kulp, a Red Cross nurse, a graduate of the Pottstown Hospital's Training School for Nurses, who lost her life in a military camp at Valdahon, France, December 28, 1918, was placed on the walls in the corridor of the hospital, and was dedi- cated with appropriate ceremonies in the presence of the parents of Miss Kulp, the members of the alumni of the Training School, the board of managers, the nurses, the staff, the trustees, and the public.
Number of patients admitted to the hospital in 1922 was 803; num- ber of free patients admitted, 397 ; operations performed, 459; deaths dur- ing the year, 57; births during the year, 113; daily average patients, 33; per cent. of free treatment, 65 ; average cost per patient per day, $3.47.
The Bryn Mawr Hospital, according to information just received, was established by Dr. George S. Gerhard in 1895, and has beds or rooms for ninety patients at this time, and is this season building a separate building as a maternity hospital or ward and this when finished in the autumn will accommodate twenty-five more. The present officers are: President, S. M. Vauclain ; vice-president, Charlton Yarnall; secretary, Dr. Arthur H. Gerhard; treasurer, Robert E. Strawbridge; solicitor, Neville D. Tyson ; superintendent, Miss Katharine Brown, 1922-23. The chief resident physician is Dr. George L. Carrington, 1922-23. During 1922 there were 1,505 patients in this hospital, 417 from foreign countries ; free patients, 1,248; Catholic patients admitted, 722; Protestants, 1,199.
Abington Memorial Hospital is located in Abington borough, Mont- gomery county, and is in every manner a modern medical institution. It was incorporated under the State laws in 1913. The original tract and buildings were given by George W. Elkins. The first officers were: George W. Elkins, president; John Gilbert, vice-president; Robert Sewell, treasurer ; Leon H. Gilbert, secretary. This institution receives no State financial aid, but depends upon donations and endowments. It is beautifully situated in one of the most charming places in the county. The eighth annual report shows that the patients have been in number, by years, as follows : 1914-15, 456; 1915-16, 635; 1916-17, 754; 1917-18, 817; 1918-19, 1,156; 1919-20, 1,104; 1920-21, 1,110; 1921-22, 1,332. The report also shows the religious denominations to which the patients in 1922-23 belong: Atheist, I; Baptist, 210; Roman Catholic, 310; Christ's Disciples, 2; Christian Scientist, 3; Congregational, 4; Episcopal, 3; Evangelical, 3; Friends, 24; Jewish, 32; Lutheran, 82; Mennonite, 6; Methodist, 185; New Church, 4; Presbyterian, 270; Reformed, 28; Uni- tarian, 3; United Brethren, 5; Unknown, 12.
The present officers of this hospital corporation are as follows : George W. Elkins, Jr., president; Samuel L. Schively, vice-president ; Marmaduke Tilden, Jr., secretary; Robert Sewell, treasurer. J. Dean Elliott, M. D., is the chairman of the executive committee of the medical staff. In the year ending March 31, 1922, the membership of this incor- poration was 685, and the receipts from their membership $5,330.00.
CHAPTER XIX. BENCH AND BAR. By William F. Dannehower, Esq.,
Secretary of the Montgomery County Bar Association.
The Bench-In early Colonial days, judges were appointed annually by the Governor from lists elected by the Provincial Council. Later, the Governor was authorized to appoint and commission "a competent num- ber of Justices of the Peace" for each county; and they, or any three of them, could hold the court of Quarter Sessions. He could also appoint and commission "a competent number of persons" to hold the Court of Common Pleas. At first the same persons were appointed for both courts. This was prohibited, however, by the Act of September 9, 1759, which provided for the appointment of "five persons of the best discre- tion, capacity, judgment and integrity" to the Common Pleas, any three of whom could hold the court. The appointments were for life, or during good behavior. The Constitution of 1776 changed the term to seven years, but the old rule was restored by the Constitution of 1790. Under the Provincial system, the justices of the peace elected their president as presiding judge. The Act of January 28, 1777, however, provided for the appointment and commission of a president judge by the President and Supreme Executive Council. When Montgomery county was erected, September 10, 1784, the Constitution of 1776 and the Act of 1777 were still in force.
On the 19th of March, 1784, just prior to the erection of Montgomery county out of Philadelphia county, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of the county of Philadelphia, was appointed and commissioned by the President and Supreme Executive Council, "in the name and by the authority of the Freemen of Pennsylvania," as a justice of the peace with "full power and authority to execute and perform all the several acts and things which any justice of the peace in the county aforesaid (Phil- adelphia) by the General Commission assigned, lawfully can, may or might do both in the Courts of Common Pleas, the Orphans' Court, or elsewhere." He took the oath of office on the following day, March 20, 1784. On the 10th of September following, the new county, wherein Muhlenberg resided, was created, and his commission became effective in the new county, and was duly recorded in the Recorder's Office. It was the first commission recorded in the first Commission Book of the new county. Eleven days thereafter, September 21st, Muhlenberg was commissioned as register, and also, by a separate commission, recorder of the new county. On the Ioth of September, the date of the new county's birth, Thomas Craig was appointed as justice of the "pleas," and also as prothonotary, and. on the following day, the IIth. clerk of
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the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace and of the Orphans' Court. On September 29th James Morris was appointed a justice of the Com- mon Pleas of Montgomery county and a justice of the peace for the townships of Norrington, Whitpain and Worcester. On the Ist of Novem- ber, John Richards was commissioned as a justice of the County Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county. On the 13th of December, Henry Scheetz, and on the 17th, Peter Evans, were respectively appointed justices of the Common Pleas, and the latter also a justice of the peace for the townships of Montgomery, Gwinedth (sic) and Hatfield. On the 14th of October a commission dedimus postatem was issued to Fred- erick Augustus Muhlenberg and Thomas Craig, Esqrs., to administer oaths to persons appointed to any office by the Supreme Executive Coun- cil. On the same day, Zebulon Potts was commissioned as sheriff, and a writ of assistance was issued to the judges, justices and magistrates, and other officers of the new county.
Therefore, when the first session of court was held in Montgomery county, the newly commissioned justices of the peace or justices of the Common Pleas therein, were Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Thomas Craig, James Morris, Henry Scheetz, Peter Evans and John Richards; Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg was register and recorder; Thomas Craig, prothonotary, clerk of the Quarter Sessions Court and clerk of the Orphans' Court; and Zebulon Potts was the sheriff.
The first session of court held in the new county of Montgomery was a special session of the Orphans' Court. It convened "at Providence" (Trap, Providence township), on December 1, 1784. Justices Muhlen- berg, Morris, Richards and Scheetz were on the bench. The second session of court was that of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace. This was held December 28, 1784, before Justices Muhlenberg, president ; Morris, Richards, Scheetz and Dean, at "the house of John Shannon." After court had been opened and silence commanded, the commissions from the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania were read, appoint- ing as justices of the peace: William Dean, Esq., bearing date July 14, 1783; Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, March 19, 1784; John Richards, June 24, 1784; Henry Scheetz, June 24, 1784; James Morris, September 29, 1784. There was also read the commission of Thomas Craig appoint- ing him clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace.
Sheriff Potts returned the grand jury, which were sworn. Francis Swaine was chosen foreman of the grand jury. President Judge Muh- lenberg delivered the charge of the Court to the grand jury. The first proceeding brought before the Court was an appeal, Overseers of the Poor of New Hanover Township v. Overseers of the Poor of New Provi- dence Township, from the order of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and Michael Croll, Esqrs., for the removal of Isaac Boulton and Alice, his wife, from New Hanover township to New Providence township. The case was continued to the March Sessions, 1785. [On June 29, 1785,
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on argument, the order for removal was quashed.] There was also a similar appeal of the Overseers of the Poor of Whitemarsh Township v. Overseers of the Poor of Springfield Township for the removal of Mar- garetta Jance, a pauper, from Whitemarsh to Springfield township. It was continued to the March Sessions, 1785. Twenty-one constables were in attendance at this session of the Court.
On the following day, September 29th, the first session of the Court of Common Pleas was held, but before what justices the record does not disclose. The December sessions of court, 1784, as well as the March and the June sessions of 1785, were held at the "house of John Shannon," or at "John Shannon's," where the precepts, orders and writs were made returnable. Now where was "the house of John Shannon" or "John Shannon's?" Local historians differ. Bean's "History of Montgomery County" (1884) says: "The first court was held in Norri- ton township, the 28th day of December, 1784, in the barn on the 'Barley Sheaf' Hotel property, now owned by Benjamin Baker, located on the Germantown turnpike, a short distance northwest of Hartranft station, on the Stony Creek railroad. The hotel was kept at that time by John Shannon." The authority for this statement is given to have been Eliz- abeth Shannon, grandchild of the proprietor named, then residing at Norristown (1884).
Feather's "Political Handbook of Montgomery County" (1899) says: "While the Court House was being erected, the sessions of the Court were held at the public house of John Shannon, located near Stony Creek. The first session was held on the 28th day of December, 1784, opening at 12 o'clock noon."
Hon. Irving P. Wanger in a paper entitled "The Forming of Mont- gomery County," read before the Historical Society of Montgomery County, October 7, 1907, concludes that "John Shannon's" meant his Egypt Road Tavern, later the site of the Hartranft Hotel, on Main street.
It appears that in 1785 there was assessed in the name of John Shan- non a tavern on Egypt road, now Main street, and in the name of Josiah Wood a tavern and a 150-acre farm on the Maxatawny road in Norriton township. The assessor's books for 1784 are lost. In 1785 Shannon resided in the Egypt road tavern. That year, in March, he applied for a tavern license-"John Shannon, Norris Town." However, there was no hotel within the limits of the town of Norris, but a little westward on Egypt road, or Main street, there was a hotel (later the Hartranft House), belonging to Josiah Wood, and later to John Shannon.
The September Sessions, 1785, were held at "Norris Town," and writs, etc., were there returnable.
The county offices were opened in the small stone residence of Thomas Craig, prothonotary and clerk of the courts, at the south cor- ner of Egypt or Main street and Cherry alley, but in 1789, upon comple-
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tion of the first court house they were removed to the new structure "on the hill."
President Judge Muhlenberg, who served from December 28, 1784, until September, 1785, was succeeded by James Morris, who served until 1789. Judge Morris was, on the 23rd of July, 1785, commissioned presi- dent of the Court of Common Pleas and Court of General Quarter Ses- sions of the Peace in and for Montgomery county. On January 26, 1786, Michael Croll, and on November 27, 1786, Christian Weber, were com- missioned justices of the pleas and also justices of the peace.
There appears no question, according to the records, that for the first five years, from 1784 to 1789, the courts in this county were presided over by judges not learned in the law. They were, however, men of high character for honesty and integrity, and by study acquired sufficient legal knowledge to enable them to discharge their duties with more than ordinary credit to themselves and the judicial office. This was notably the case with the first president judge, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, who had been educated for the ministry.
In the Act of 1784 it was provided "that the Justices of the Supreme Court of this State shall have like powers, jurisdictions and authorities within said County of Montgomery as in other counties within the State, and are authorized and empowered from time to time to deliver the gaol of said county of capital or other offenders in like manner as they are authorized to do in other counties in the State."
Under the Constitution of 1790 and the Act of April 13, 1791, judges were required to be learned in the law, and the State was divided into five judicial districts or circuits, the First comprising the city and county of Philadelphia and the counties of Montgomery, Bucks and Delaware. Section 3 of the Act of 1791 provided that in each of said circuits a "per- son of knowledge, and integrity, skilled in the laws, shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor to be president and judge of the Courts of Common Pleas within such circuit; and that a number of other persons, not fewer than three nor more than four, shall be appointed and commissioned judges of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for each and every county of this Commonwealth."
Soon after the approval of the Act of 1791, the first Governor-elect, Thomas Mifflin, appointed and commissioned James Biddle presiding judge of the First Judicial District, for the county of Montgomery. He served until 1797, when he was succeeded by Judge James D. Coxe, who filled the office until 1805, when he was succeeded by William H. Tilgh- man. Upon Judge Tilghman's promotion to the Supreme Bench, Bird Wilson succeeded him in 1806 and served until 1818, when he resigned because unwilling to pronounce sentence of death upon a prisoner con- victed of first degree murder. In 1806 the counties of Montgomery, Chester, Bucks and Delaware were constituted the 7th Judicial Dis-
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trict. Judge Wilson was the presiding judge, followed by Judge John Ross in 1818.
By Act of March 12, 1821, Delaware and Chester counties were con- stituted the Fifteenth Judicial District, leaving Bucks and Montgomery counties to constitute the 7th Judicial District. In the 7th District so constituted, the president judges were Judges John Ross, Fox, Burnside, Krause, Smyser, Chapman, and Henry P. Ross.
In 1874, however, Montgomery county became in itself a single judicial district, the 38th. Judge Henry P. Ross became its first presi- dent judge, followed by Judges Stinson, Boyer, Swartz, and Miller.
Judge Ross died on April 13, 1882, just as he had entered upon his second ten-year term of office. Four days thereafter, Governor Hoyt appointed Charles H. Stinson to succeed him. Judge Boyer at the fall election defeated Judge Stinson, and on the 13th of December, 1882, was commissioned to serve ten years from the first Monday of January, 1883. Before the end of his term he died, August 16, 1887. Additional Law Judge Swartz then became president judge by commission from Gover- nor Beaver, dated 23rd of December, 1887, and continued as such until April 2, 1923. Additional Law Judge Miller was then commissioned by Governor Pinchot as president judge, and took the oath of office on the 18th of April, 1923.
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