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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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, No. 1 of Vol. 6, it is stated byCharles G. Sower that William H. Sowers was not a descendant of ChristopherSauer. Rupps Thirtj^ Thousand Names of Pennsylvania immigrants be-fore 1775 shows that Sauer, or Sower, was not an uncommon name amongthem. Chris. Sauer, first, was a Separatist, and his son was a Tunkerpreacher and overseer. Six-plate stoves were his inventions, from which ten-plate stoves afterwards originated. Mr. Fleckenstem did not forge histjjpes. Thejr were cast by himself in matrices, said to have been forged underhis (Sauers) direction by Mr. F. In the same Magazine W. P. Bagnall has a letter to Mr. Ward saying thatMr. Thomas R. Fishers Hosiery Mills could not have been started before 1834,when Mr. Fisher bought his machinery from Thomas Jones and engaged himas superintendent. The Wakefield Mills had made woolen cloth or cloth ofcotton and wool mixed. Thomas Jones died belbre the hosiery machinerywas ready for action in the Wakefield Mills in 1834. His son Aaron became
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GERMANTOWN. 123 superintendent, hut went into business for himself in 1839. His brother John succeeded him in Mr. Fishers employ. He lives in Philadelphia and gave Mr. Bagnall all the facts. —1Thomas Jones and the late John Button began to make hosiery at Ger- mantown about the beginning of April, 1831. Mr. Jones moved from Nice-town and Mr. Button from South Third street, below Shippen street. Theycame from Leicestershire, England, in April, 1830. Tiie credit of introduc-ing the hosiery business in Germantown is due to them, though stockings hadbeen made on hand-frames in the Germantown homes from the settlementof Germantown by the Mennonites in 1684. In 1809 Thorp, Siddall & Co.,near Germantown, printed cotton on copper cylinders. Tire machinery wasimported. Magazine No. 4 of A^ol. 8, p. 383.—Samuel H. Needles article on Governors Mill and the Globe Mills, Philadelphia. In the Magazine No. 3 of Vol. 6, Ward has an article on Dr. Horace Evansscountry place on-Indian Queen Lan

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