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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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lished the rendesvous camp at Chestnut Hill, and became Colonel of theTv/enty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was afterward in the famousSixty-ninth Regiment, which felt the effects of his good discipline. GeneralHooker comphmented General Owen at Fair Oaks. In 1862 he became abrigadier-general. He was in every battle of the army of the Potomac, and wasvery brave and daring. After the war he was elected Recorder of Deeds bythe Republicans. He founded the New York Daily Register, a legaljournal. His wife was Miss Sheridan. Three daughters and a son survivehim. The son continues the newspaper in New York. A son named Robert,a lawyer of promising talent died about two years before his father. TheRev. Dr. Roger T. Owen, who was long the pastor of the Presbyterian Churchat Chestnut Hill, is a brother of General Owen. General Owen was courteousand genial, and his memory will be kept green. He was natural in mannerand kind-hearted, a man of principle, ready to battle for the right. He was
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CHESTNUT HILL. 495 clear-sighted, and a good lawyer. In public matters he was a leader throughforce of character. He had a single aim, alnd a firm purpose. At the bar, inthe field, and in social life, he has left an honorable name as a rich legacy tohis family. Above St. Pauls rectory was the residence of Mrs. Elias Boudinot. It isnow owned by Mr. White, who has taken possession of it within four or fivejears. The square house next to Mr. Whitneys was owned by Mrs. Tobias Wagner.Bishop William Hobart Hare lived in it when he was rector of St. PaulsChurch. He is now the faithful Missionary Bishop of South Dakota, and re-sides at Sioux Falls, far away from his former parish. Next to this house is that of James Young, who was the first one who re-sided in it, though it was built by another person. At the foot of Norwood avenue is the well-shaded residence of the late MayStevenson, which was built in 1853 by Thomas Earp, Jr., who sold it to A. M.Burton, from whom Mr. Stevenson purchased i

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