Biographical Sketch of Christopher SAUER (1881); Chester County, PA

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From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

pg. 554

SAUER, Christopher, was born in 1693, and came to America in the fall of 1724, 
from Baasphe, in Witgenstein, Germany, and proceeded to Germantown, now part of 
Philadelphia.  He was a man of great note in the printing and publishing 
business.  He published in 1743, a magnificent quarto edition of the Bible in 
the German language, and no copy of the bible in English was printed in America 
until many years afterwards.  he was a great scholar, and the pioneer of his day 
in the publication of books, almanacs, hymn-books, Bibles, etc.  His son, David 
Sower, born in 1764, was a well-educated man, who was many years in the printing 
business, and published (among other papers) the Norristown 'Gazette,' the issue 
of which of Dec. 20, 1799, contained an elaborate account of Washington's death.