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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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servicescompelled his action, as a chief founder of the new organization. Rev. Dr.Blair and Mr. Miller made the agreement for an organ of fourteen stops, tocost $1200, to be completed within a year, by Alexander Schlotman. Mr. Milleradded to other duties that of organist of the new church for many years (p.19). Mr. Miller was a great pedestrian, and a friend of the family informs methat he walked once from his own house to Norristown and back in the morn-ing, and the same afternoon into the city and back. I am indebted to Mr. Charles Miller, a son of Joseph Miller, who resides onGowen avenue, for local information. He is over eighty years of age. An oldcherry tree still stands in a field opposite his house from which he pluckedcherries when almost an infant.. When I saw the old tree its top was wearingaway, but many blossoms still adorned it, and gave promise of coming fruit.Mr. Millers son. Rev. Joseph L. Miller, is assistant minister at St. StephensEpiscopal Church on Tenth street.
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MOUNT AIRY. 393 Mr. James Gowens will, in a printed pamphlet, shows that he styled himselfin that document, formerly merchant, now farmer. He calls his mansion Magnolia Villa. Modern Mt. Airy looks at the reader prosperously as he glances over TheCountry House, of November 85, published by Howard M. Jenkins, and sees thelast page entirely devoted to displaying the natural and artificial advantagesof the Gowen estate for residences, while telegraphs and cheap fare make it adesirable suburb. A jiellow colored, pamphlet in my hand, with its account ofa Telford road, among the old houses and their newer cousins, and the ancientand modern trees make a fine showing for antique Gresheim, modernizedbeyond its expectation. Gresheim creek and Gresheim road, however, still keep up the associationwith Germany, and in the modern rage for change may their names be allowedto stand as monuments of two past centuries. Through the ancient Germantownship, as the tract was called, still runs faithful Ger

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