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1,714
Marion
1,530
1,62S
1,837
1,392
Maxatawny
929
1,630
1,847
2,108
1,897
1,740
2,093
2,531|
2,843
Oley .
968
1,284
1,4IO
1,469
1,877
1,799
2,956
1,986
2,175
Penn
731
1,135
1,379
1,997
2,056
2,575
2,874
2,226
Robeson
1,232
1,807
2,065
1,966
2,016
2,404
2,461
2,458
2,322
Rockland
848
1,026
1,130
1,342
1,649
1,369
1,707
1,45I
1,527
Ruscomb-manor
375
932
1,057
1,256
1,189
1,235
2,004
2,253
2,340
Topton (bor.)
515
Tulpehocken
2,119
2,294
3,238
3,200
2,94I
1,803
1,956
2,013
2,092
Tulpehocken, U.
. .
.
.
1,456
1,58I
1,983
1,125
1, 196
1,274
Union .
669
766
921
1,046
1,272
1,665
1,968
2,165
1,540
Washington
1,210
1,154
1,600
1,60g
1,924
Windsor .
993
1,358
1,950
2,298
2,882
I, II5
1,450
1,2II
830
Womelsdorf (bor.)
370
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.
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849
947
1,076
1,03I
1,097
Total of County .
32,407 43, 146 46,275 53, 152 64,569 77,129 93,818 106,701
122,597
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1,216
1,346
1,392
1,529
1,627
Fleetwood (bor.)
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640
915
945
1,198
Muhlenberg
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1,476
1,444
1,515
1,530
Perry
1,320
1,526
1,680
1,527
Pike .
645
752
790
883
1,178
925
921
Spring
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* Hamburg in 1840-648.
+ 103 Taxables.
# Population, 727.
In 1790 the population of Reading was 2235, and of the county, 30,179.
2,010
Heidelberg
.
1,569
2,398
2,480
2,862
Heidelberg, N.
.
Jefferson
1,122
1,133
1,072
Longswamp
863
1,676
J,547
1,913
Ontelaunee
1,045
1,398
1,339
1.265
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.
.
1,566
1,408
1,466
1,035
1,334
1,590
690
1,099
Brecknock
Colebrookdale
457
405
Bethel . .
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.
.
Richmond
693
294
SCHOOL HISTORY OF BERKS COUNTY.
The valuation of all property in 1885, for the county, was nearly $50,000,000; and for the city nearly $30,000,000 ; total, $80,000,000. The real value is believed to exceed $100,000,000.
POPULATION OF READING.
In 1847, when Reading became a city, the popu- lation was 13,044; of which 4634 was north of Penn street, and 8410 south. As to sex, there were 6641 males and 6403 females. The families numbered 2398 ; and the houses 2138.
In 1876, the population was 40,109,-distributed as follows :- North of Penn street, 20,869; south, 19,240 ; as to sex, -males, 19,552 ; females, 20,557 ; and as to age, -under 21 years, 20,549 ; over 21 years, 19,560. The city then contained 8186 dwellings, 1044 stores, 117 manufactories.
In 1880 the population, by the census enumera- tion, was 43,278 ; north of Penn, 21, 167 ; and south, 22,III.
In 1886, the taxables of the city were as follows : -Resident owners, 4668 ; tenants, 6881 ; and single men, 1172.
In 1889, the registered voters numbered 13,543, distributed as follows :- North of Penn, 7379 ; south, 6164.
923
Ist Ward . . 6th Ward . . : 1414 Ioth Ward . . . 1245
2d Ward . . I282 7th Ward . . . 1352
IIth Ward . 883
3d Ward . II6I Sth Ward .. 1064 12th Ward . . 832 4th Ward . 667 9th Ward . . II33 13th Ward . 701
5th Ward . . . 886
The population in 1889 is estimated to be over four times the number of taxables, or about 60,000.
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295
READING.
CONCLUSION.
In the pages of this volume, the Author has en- deavored to present the important historical facts of the people of Berks County, whilst acting under the forms and requirements of law. In the beginning, the country was a wilderness, without cultivation or improvement of any kind, and possessed by Indians, -a race of people who had no idea of civilization, though having lived here a long while, possibly for centuries ; but now, after the lapse of less than 200 years, we see its hills and valleys improved in every section, exhibiting the unmistakable results of pos- session by another race of people who had a just conception of social progress.
In the several departments of life, whether in government, industry, education, or warfare, a per- sonal energy was shown by them, indicating that they directed their affairs for the accomplisliment of a common end, -the general welfare,-just as the · natural energy of gravity directed the flowing waters through the streams of the county into a common channel ; and as the Schuylkill River had its waters to roll onward year after year without diminution, replenished by a Power Divine, so did this people, under the guidance of His love and wisdom, show increasing manifestations of life from generation to generation, until they came to constitute a govern- ment truly representative, to carry on works suc- cessfully in every avenue of labor, to bestow knowl- edge freely upon the whole community, and to make patriotism the noblest impulse of citizenship.
296 SCHOOL HISTORY OF BERKS COUNTY.
From a wilderness, we find that the country has been developed into an extensive garden ; from bar- barism and the ruling of men by inight, the prin- ciple of equality has been firmly established ; from 1000 uncivilized persons, with property of no gen- eral value, a civilized population has multiplied to 130,000, whose possessions have a fixed value now estimated to be worth $100,000,000 ; and from a few rude relics left half-buried by an improvident race, the change has become so great, including founda- tions and buildings and improvements of such a per- menent nature, that, if this succeeding race in the wonderful fluctuations of time should also be obliged to depart, or be exterminated by warfare, many evi- dences would remain to demonstrate their social progress and intellectual greatness.
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INDEX.
ADLER, proprietor of, flogged
.
139
Agriculture .
. 96-100
Amish, denomination of
71
Preachers
72
Amusements
194, 216, 228, 249
Area of County
38
Associations
268-281
Protective
268
Secret
275
Banks and Banking
275
Libraries
277
Musical
278
Charitable
279
Industrial
280
Auditors, office of
43
BANKS and Banking
204, 275
Baptists, denomination of
68, 267
Berks County, adjoining counties of .
II
Position of .
15
Erection of
37
Area of
38
Name of .
38
Bernville
18I
Birdsboro'
179
Board of Trade
280
Boone, Daniel, the Kentucky Pioneer, 171 Boot and Shoe-making at Reading . . 235 Boroughs 40, 178-185
Bernville
18I
Birdsboro'
I79
Boyertown
183
Centreport
181
Fleetwood
184
Hamburg
182
Kutztown
182
Lenhartsville
184
Topton
I84
Womelsdorf
178
Government of .
184
Census of
293
Boyertown
183
Brewing at Reading
238
Brickmaking at Reading
233
Bridges
104
Building Associations .
211, 280
CALENDAR, Old Style to New
Style
197
Canals
104
Cemeteries
73
Census of County
290-294
Table, 1800 to 1880
293
Centreport .
181
Charitable Associations
279
Churches of County
63-73
Lutheran and Reformed
64
Friends
67
Baptists
68
Dunkards
69
Moravians
70
Roman Catholics
71
297
298
INDEX.
Amish .
71
Episcopal
72
Other denominations
72
At Reading
266
Cigar-making at Reading
234
City Hall at Reading
247
Districts of
39
Civil War, 1861-65 .
148-163
Counties of State previous to Berks .
37
County Superintendents
78
Court-House, 1762
113
Court-House, 1840
I18
Crier and the Boys
II5
Customs, Manners and .
91, 215, 229
DECLARATION of Independence,
46
Names of 13 Colonies
46
Delegates to Conventions
56
District Attorney, office of
43
Districts of County
39
Divisions of County
38
Duel at Reading, during Revolution .
133
Dunkards, denomination of .
69
EARLY Settlers of County
24-36
Situation of County before
24
Education
63-95
Early encouragement of .
74
Churches
63-73
Schools
74-80
Newspapers
80-88
Language
88-90
Manners and Customs
91-95
At Reading
255-266
Educational government at Reading . 285
Presidents of School Board
287
City Superintendents
288
Elections, day for general and local
.
57
Election Districts of County
53
Electors-Male tax-payers
58
No female tax-payers .
58
State-House, 1793
118
County of Berks, erection of
37
Area of
38
Name of . .
38
Sub-divisions of
38
Townships of
39
Ringgold Light Artillery
152
Patriotism of County
152
Partisan Protest
153
Appropriations
I55
Ladies' Aid Society.
155
Reading Hospital
156
Drafts in County for
156
Companies from County in . 157-159
Confederate Armies surrender . 159
Summary of Battles
160
Sacrifices of War
160
Clock-making at Reading
235
Commissioners, office of
43
Commons at Reading
248
Common School Education
75
Common School System, Origin of .
78
-
Accepted by Districts
78
At Reading
213, 259
Congressmen of County
45
Constitution of Pennsylvania .
49
Constitution of United States
46
Continental money
I35
Conventions, necessity of .
56
State, at Reading .
60
Conway Cabal, not at Reading,
135
Coroner, office of
44
County Buildings
113-119
Court-House, 1762
113
Court-House, 1840
I18
County Prison, 1770
II8
County Prison, 1848
119
Poor-House, 1824
119
Electric Fire-alarm
271
INDEX.
299
Electric Light, Gas and, at Reading . 252
Elevation, Relative, of sections . 17
Embargo of 1807 . 140
English-third settlers of County
32
Names of first families
32
Connected with Friends .
32
Named most of townships
33
Named County
33
Tories
34
Some, Episcopalians
34
English War of 1812-15 .
141-145
Companies from County, in .
143-144
Episcopal, denomination of .
72
Erection of Berks County
37
F
AIR-DAYS at Reading
215, 242
Female Seminaries at Reading . 263
Ferries and Bridges at Reading
203
Fire-alarm
271
Fire Companies
205, 212, 268
Fire Company Buildings
247
Fireman's Union
269
Fishing, Early
103
Fleetwood
184
Fords of Schuylkill
104
Friends, denomination of
67
Glossary of names
23
Churches
68
Industrial Associations
280
Membership
68
Industries of County
100-102
Early preachers
68
French and Indian War, 1755-63 .
124-128
Freshets
105
GAS and Electric Light at Reading . 252
Geography of County
II
Geology of County
17
Germans, second settlers of County
27
First Settlers in Oley .
27
Redemptioners
27
Immigration
28
Huguenots
29
Named three original townships .
30
Selection of land
30
Representative positions
30
Extreme Revolutionists
30
Descendants of, in County
31
Government of County
41-62
Of Townships
167
Of Boroughs
184
Of Reading
282-289
HALLS at Reading
249
Hamburg
182
Hatters and Hat-making, Reading
. 231
Hessian Prisoners in County
I32
House-tax and Liberty-poles of 1799 .
138
High School at Reading'
260
Statistics
260
Huguenots
29
INDIANS
19
Tribes
19
Clans
19
Manners
20
Departure
21
Weapons
21
Relics .
22
Internal Improvements of County
.
103
Of Reading
202, 239
Iron establishments at Reading .
236
Iron masters of County
102
TURY Commissioners, office of
44
Judges, office and names of .
42
KUTZTOWN
182
TABOR and Internal Improvements
of County
· 96-123
Of Reading
230-254
.
300
INDEX.
Language
88-90 | Militia
163-165
Latitude of County
18
Legislature --
National
48
State
51
Lenhartsville
184
Liberty Poles of 1799
138
Libraries
277
Light
123, 207, 216, 219
Lincoln family
172
Local officers of county .
42, 43, 44
Locomotion, Progress of
IO8
Longitude of county
I8
Lutherans, denomination of .
64
Churches
63, 67
Membership
67
Navigation
103
Early preachers
65, 66
At Reading
266
MANATAWNY Section of town-
ships
169
Names of Townships
39
Derivation of Names
170
Manners and Customs
91, 215, 229
Market Days at Reading .
214, 241
Market-Houses at Reading
239
Mass Meetings at Reading
61
Mexican War, 1846-48
145-148
Reading Artillerists in
146
Battles of company
147
Military Institute at Reading
265
Military Periods .
124-165
French and Indian War
124-128
Revolution
128-136
Whiskey Insurrection
136-138
House-tax and Liberty Poles 138-140
Embargo of 1807 .
140-14I
English War
141-145
Mexican War
145-148
Civil War
148-163
Legislative Provisions for
163
County Battalions
164
State National Guard .
165
Minority officials of County
52
Moravians, denomination of
70
Morgantown
180
Mountains of County
15
Musical Associations
278
NAME of County
38
National Banks .
162
National Currency .
163
Legislature
48
Representatives
45
Newspapers
80-88
Weekly
84
Daily
85
Nominations for office
56
)FFICES by Special Legislation for
(
County
52
Offices, Nomination for .
56
Ontelaunee section of townships
I72
Names of Township
39
Derivation of Names
173
Origin of Common School System
78
PAROCHIAL schools
266
Pay-schools .
80
Pennsylvania, Constitution of .
49
Legislature of
5I
Political Festivals at Reading
62
Political Parties
55
Poor Directors, office of
44
Poor-house of County, 1824
119
Post-office of Reading established, 120
20I
Post-offices in County
I2I
Postal service
119-122
INDEX.
301
British service
119
United States service
I20
Post-offices in County
I21
Stamps
121
At Reading
243
Pounds Sterling
196
Precincts, divisions of district
56
Presbyterians, denomination of
72
At Reading
266
Presidential Electors
57
Prison Inspectors, office of
44
Prison of County, 1770
I18
Prison of County, 1848
119
Progress of Locomotion
108
Protective Associations
268
Prothonotary, office of
43
P. & R. R. Co. works at Reading .
237
Public Buildings of County
113
Pumps
192, 206, 217
Q UARTER Sessions, Clerk of . . 43
RAILROADS in County .
107
Influence on Reading .
210
Reading
186-289
Town, from 1748 to 1783
.
186-198
Borough, from 1783 to 1847 . 198-209
Schuylkill River
I2
Principal branches of
13
City, from 1847 to 1889 . . .
209-230
Advantages of
103
Review of Reading in 1847 . 209-218
Schuylkill Section of townships
173
Development by Decades . 219-226
Names of Townships
39
1847 and 1889 contrasted . . 226-230
Derivation of Names
174
Labor and Int. Imp. . . 191, 202, 230
Schuylkill Valley
14
Schools and Churches
255-268
Secret Associations
211, 275
Sections of County
38
Associations
268-281
Government
281-289
Settlers, Early, of County
24
Post-office established at
120,201
Schools
74-80
Mass Meetings at
61
Newspapers at
80, 199, 214
Political Festivals at
62
State Conventions at
61
Reading Academy
257
Recorder, office of
43
Redemptioners
27
Reformed, denomination of .
64
Churches
67
Membership
67
Early preachers
66, 67
Register, office of
43
Rehrersburg
180
Relative Elevation of several sections I7
Representatives National from County
45
State, from Reading
288
Representation, principle of
58
Revolution, 1775-1783
128-136
Companies from County in
130
Roads from Reading .
105
Roman Catholics, denomination of .
71
Churches
71
Membership
71
Early preachers
71
Churches at Reading
71, 267
Round Head
16
SAVING Associations
2II, 281
Early Encouragement in County, 74
Common School Education .
75
Constitutional provision for
76
Progress of Schools
77
302
INDEX. ·
County Superintendents
78
Origin of Common School System
78
System accepted by Districts
78
Teachers' Institute .
79
Pay-schools
80
At Reading
· 190, 213, 255-266
School Progress
77
School Statistics of County .
79
Of Reading
263
Sheriff, office of
43
Stages
107
Stamps, Postal service
I2I
State Banks
16I
State Conventions at Reading
61
State Legislature
51
State-House, 1793
II8
State Representatives
44
From Reading .
288
Streams of County .
II
Street Railways at Reading
253
Streets of Reading, Change of Names, 208
Subdivision of County
38
Sunday-schools
267
Surveyor, office of
44
Swedes, first settlers
25
Oldest building in County
26
TEACHERS' Institute, County
.
79
City
288
Telegraph
I22
Telephone
123
Topton
I84
Town-clock and " Yorrick "
116-118
Towns in County
40
Townships of County
39, 166-177
Derivation of names
170-177
Government of .
167
Manatawny Section
169
Ontelaunee Section .
172
Schuylkill Section
173
Tulpehocken Section .
175
Census of
293
Treasurer, office of .
43
Tulpehocken Section of townships
175
Names of townships
39
Derivation of names
177
Tulpehocken Valley
15
Turnpikes
106
TALLEYS of County
13
Vote for Governor
59
For President
60
For Party
60
For Liquor
60
WATER-WORKS at Reading, 206, 244
Washington visits Reading in
I794 .
I37
Welsh-fourth settlers of County
35
Named three townships
35
Names of first families
36
Whiskey Insurrection of 1794
136-140
Womelsdorf
178
VORRICK, Town-clock and . 116-118
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