Identifier: ancientmodernger01hotc (find matches)
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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ania Railroad depot,for erecting a fine building. Mr. H. H. Houstons deer park, green-houses and his large collection of rosescome in for attention. The Trustworthy Police Force consists of eleven patrolmen, undercommand of Police Sergeant J. S. Currier, a very capable officer, and inti-mately conversant with the surrounding country. The district is four and ahalf miles on Main street, and is three miles wide. Among prominent residents are Hon. Richard Vaux, ex-Mayor, who usedto walk into the city, eleven or twelve miles, daily; Samuel Hollingsworth, ofSummit avenue; Joim H. Mitchener, of Township line, near Evergreen avenue;Gen. Russell Thayer, Superintendent of Fairmount Park, who lives on Twenty-ninth street, near Highland avenue; Hon. Furman Shepherd, residing on Newstreet, near Prospect avenue; S. M. Janney, on Prospect avenue, near Summitstreet; Joseph Baker, Evergreen avenue; J. E. Terry, Union avenue. SamuelGoodman, Bethlehem pike and Summit street; Alfred C. Harrison, Reading
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■SIS. CHESTNUT HILL; 483 pike, and F. 0. Allen, on Township line, are named among other prominent,citizens who have already been mentioned in these sketches. The old stone house on Evergreen avenue, not far from the PennsylvaniaRailroad depot, where Washington stopped, receives attention, and the traditionis given that the bodies of dead American soldiers were carried into the houseon the retreat, and that the British destroyed everything in the house exceptingan old clock, which is still preserved. CALEBCOPE. The Philadelphia Inquirer of May 14, A. D. 1888, had a long sketch of thisgood man, which I will condense. He died on May 12, 1888. Born in 1797,in Greensburg, Pa., and losing his father in infancy, he early entered a store inthe town. At eighteen he came to Philadelphia to the counting house of his-uncles, Isreal & Jasper Cope. A third uncle, Thomas P. Cope, came to this cityin 1786. The^^ were in the East India trade. The young man became apartner when the firm was chang

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