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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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ns house stood where Mr. Adamsons does.John Grigg occupied it several years. John Lorain had eight daughters, theyoungest being named Octavia. One married Mr. Swift, of Easton. Mr.Charles J. Wisters painting of the Shoemaker mansion contains the two MissesLorain who taught school in it. His father is speaking with them from thepavement. No. 4429 was William Mehls house, but its appearance has been changedby the present occupant, Mr. William Henson. Another of the old land-marks on Germantown avenue is the unpretentious stone and plastereddouble house, No. 4431, above Wakefield Church, built in 1776 by ChristopherOttinger, a soldier of the Pennsjdvania line, who volunteered at the age of 17.His widow drew a pension for his service as 1st Sergeant. Capt. DouglassOttinger, son of Christopher, was born in this old mansion Dec. 11, 1804, andstill occupies the same bed-roona in which he was born. The Captain made hisfirst voyage in 1822 on the ship Thomas Jefferson, of Philadelphia, and was
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GERMANTOWN. 33 commissioned a Lieutenant in the U. S. Revenue Cutter service in 1832, byPresident Andrew Jackson. By order of the U. S. Government he expendedthe first appropriation for the Life Saving Service, and invented and namedthe Life Car. In 1849, he constructed and furnished with a complete andeffective life-saving apparatus, eight stations on the New Jersey coast fromSandy Hook to Little Egg Harbor. He is still (1889) in service as SeniorCaptain in the U. S. Revenue Marine. In the parlor of the old house hangsa life-size portrait of the Captain, painted by an eminent artist of New York,over forty years ago. The Captain was then in the full vigor of manhood,and now, although in his 85th year, is still in the enjoyment of health, walkserect, and carries his years with a soldierly grace. At the south-east corner of Fishers lane, John Dedier built a hip-roofedhouse in 1773. In the wall at the corner of Fishers lane and the avenue, isa piece of a tombstone, with skull and cross b

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