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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e of the Norristown Herald, then the leading Democratic paper ofMontgomery county. When he reached his twenty-first year, he was offeredan interest in the Herald establishment at a reasonable price, but preferred tostart a newspaper of his own, and with that intention came to Germantownon the day that he reached his majority, February 22, 1830, bringing withhim the names of sixty-five citizens of Norristown subscribers to the proposedjournal. A few weeks after his arrival in Germantown, on Wednesday, March 17,the Village Telegraph appeared. Although but a small sheet comparedwith newspapers of the present day, it was then one of the largest journals inPennsylvania. Germantown at that time was a straggling village of a fewhundred inhabitants; the sidewalks in a number of places along the main *This statement is very questionable. I have a letter written by Gen. Aguews orderly, who doesnot mention it, though describing his burial, and saying that he was buried in a church-yard. C. J. W.
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GERMANTOWN. 41 street were not paved; a railroad was not yet contemplated and an old rat-tling four-horse stage took a few passengers to the city in the morning andbrought them home in the evening, nearly three hours being consumed inthe round trip, and this was the only source of communication with the city.In a short time, however, suggestions in regard to the construction of a rail-road between Germantown and Philadelphia began to appear in the Telegraph,and in 1832 the project had so far advanced that the stock subscription bookswere simultaneously opened in Germantown, Philadelphia and Norristownand the rush of people anxious to buy shares was so great, that windows werebroken, iron railings demolished by the swaying crowds and a number ofpersons were carried home in a fainting condition. When the Native American riot broke out in Philadelphia, in 1844,during which fifty people were killed or wounded, two Roman Catholicchurches destroyed by incendiary fires and fifty houses burne

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