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"Fellow-Citizens- The life of man is measured by the flight of years; the history of a province by the revolution of centuries; the course of the world by the cycle of the ages; and the ages of eternity, by the Creator Himself. "Montgomery county completes its primal round of one hundred years to-day. Like a century plant, our proud shire opens into bloom with a sound and a savor loud enough to fill the domain with a bracing melody and a pleasant flavor; drawing to its centre the masses from rural and from urban quarters, from thirty townships and twelve boroughs, like a magnet of great power. And beyond its borders, too, the music and the odor float. "Our twice venerable and bi-cetennial neighbors, Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks (1682), like the three ancient Graces, discern the echo, and are with us to taste of the 'feast of reason and the flow of soul.' "The senior counties Lancaster(1729) York (1749) Cumberland (1750) Berks and Northampton (1752) Bedford (1771) Northumberland (1772) Westmoreland (1773) Washington (1781) Fayettte (1783)- all are glad to hail Montgomery into the mystic guild of the centenarians. "Our twin sister Franklin (1784) crosses the line with the province of Montgomery, arm-in-arm. "The junior counties are happy as well as their elder sister's majority and speed her with cheering words, that their own period of adolescence may grow speedily and beautifully less, when they, too, may wear the manly toga. Peer and compeers, you are welcome. "So live and so general an "esprit du corps," pervading the Commonwealth, renders it all the better to be here, and helps us to swell Montgomery's jubilee to real grand proportions. Our proud shire is of age; has one hundred thousand inhabitants, five hundred square miles of territory- old enough, and large enough, and rich enough, to rejoice alone. But it is 'not good to be alone,' especially on a festive occasion. Mankind is mankinned. Not only misery love company, but joy as well. It is written on the big heart of humanity: 'Whether one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member be honored, all members rejoice with it.' That is St. Paul's commentary on the legend inscribed on our national escutheon - E PLURIBUS UNUM. "Inasmuch, however, as it is meet and right to inquire into the reason of things, as far as mortals may, let us here now ask, What means this gala day? "A sweet American singer tells us in flowing rhyme to 'bury the dead past.' But surely this is not Montgomery's funeral ! It were a lively corpse, indeed. It is an Eastertide. Some unseen power has touched the dry bones of its hills and dales, breathed upon them, and wrought the miracles of a resurrection. xiii What an aroma collects around and diffuses from the shades and handiwork of our ancestors ! Norristown is filled with shrines, an Athens once stood filled with altars and with gods. Our goodly-disposed citizens are down on their knees, worshiping relics. Who does not pass by the new, the fresh, and the green, to tarry by the ancient, the gray-haired, and confess that 'the old is better'? "But why is this great post-mortem? Why this grand review of the dead? Why this mania for the vanished century? "Is it not a phenomenon, worth our study, that we should be so anxious to place our eyes in the back of our head, just now? That we should, so simultaneously and unanimously turn from the rising to the setting sun? That we should, one and all, slight the glorious future and the prolific present, to revere alone the 'dead past'? "This is the Sphinx that sits by the roadside, mutely challenging each one 'Solve me or die'! "The answers vary even as the souls of men. 'Many men of many minds. A conventional holiday will it prove to some. 'Only this and nothing more.' As the falls of Niagara suggest a goodly site to plant a mill, or the leaning tower at Pisa, to build a derrick, so, too, can these men can see but an occasion to 'eat and drink and die' in a centennial jubilee. Let us preserve a 'boisterous silence' in the presence of souls so radically utilitarian or epicurean! "But is it not an event celebrated in honor of a departed ancestry? That were a healthy motive, indeed. No son or society is on a wrong road so long as a sentiment so filial animates the bosom. Age is honorable. "Nevertheless, Montgomery's jubilee must be rested on a firmer base than a mere sentiment affords, be that never so noble. Otherwise, certain perplexing queries might be propounded. "The thoughtful do not believe that 'a little spark may kindle a great fire' unless a vast heap or combustibles is at hand. The occasion is not the cause of a great conflagration. And he that argues our jubilee on the basis of a sheer sentimentality, would place the streams far above its source. We make bold to declare that the centennial jubilee of Montgomery County does not rest as the 'baseless fabric of an airy vision.' Young America, least of all, will content itself with a ground so narrow. A class so progressive will cry out: 'In honor of a departed ancestry! Why must the fathers and mothers be so loudly lauded? What is it that entitles them to such a glorification? An unsophisticated race!' "Our ancestry's record does seem very meagre aside of the prolific catalogue of to-day, and almost justifies each a disparagement. They never built an engine; they never launched a steamboat; they never surveyed a railroad; they never new a telegraph, they never whispered in a telephone; the never rode a reaper; they never ran a sewing machine; they never walked in electric light. "They never uttered the term 'protoplasm' or 'evolution.' They never heard of the 'survival of the fittest.' They believed in Adam as the progenitor of the human race. They despised the ape. They ate oysters without discerning the blood of their sires within! "Does not that golden-mouthed but blear-eyed orator boldly declare: 'This world was not worth living in fifty years ago'? "Under such, a strong indictment, the less we talk of the wisdom of the fathers, the better; unless we may cast a more invunerable cost of mail and build a more impregnable wall around them. What shall be the argument, then, by which the Citizens of Montgomery County may successfully defend and maintain the propriety of their Centennial Jubilee? "I will answer. I will tell you:- "The jubilee instinct in mankind is the reasonable and satisfactory base on which every memorial act, either of an individual or social nature, finds room enough to stand. "On this broad and lasting foundation, the countless apotheoses of the world may withstand the assaults of the wise and of the foolish. This is a chief corner-stone on which men have ever built their memorial temples; not of 'hay, straw and stubble,' either, but of gold, silver and precious stones.' "To undertake to account for this disposition in man, is to enter the wide sphere of psychology, and tell why man is what he is. A theme too large and heavy to carry on a holiday! "To canonize consummated facts of by-gone ages, is an instinct of the race which ever did and ever will continue to come to the surface of human society among all nations, and at all the stages of the world's march. To deny this proposition is to antagonize history. The memory of man does not know of a time, or a people, that did not grace itself with monumental deeds and memorial seasons. In the wake of the primal Sabbath of God, when the miracle of creation was first commemorated, festival days and jubilee songs, bloomed along and flavored the great highway of time. The Orient, the Middle Ages, and Modern Ages, all voice this race instinct. Account for it an we may, we dare not ignore the fact. "Nor are these commemorative demonstrations to be regarded as frozen mausoleums, erected over dead and buried dust. They, like the singing Memnon, utter psalms, not requiem hymns. They are the incarnation of mankinds' creed in an immortality. They are monuments, not mounds. They are both proofs and prophecies of man's sense of an everlasting life. It is history's way of protesting against a final nihilism. Rightly interpreted, that is what all the Bethel stones and Ebenezer altars declare, all along track the race has broken. That is the language of pyramids, pillars and statutes. With two faces, as it were, they look into the Past and Future, and tell us of the 'Golden Age' that was and of the 'Good time coming.' "Tombs and epitaphs weary mortals ever crave at the end of their journey, cold and frigid as they seem. Like faithful sentinels, those white, sepulchral stores mark the graves of men. Even 'merry England' grants an 'initial letter' over the grave of her Newgate felon. And even through the blazing ages of cremation an urn is used. "And so, too, does the nation and the race erect its countless 'In Memoriams' over deeds and characters illustrious; and all the more so, since, like the grain of wheat, they fell into the earth that they might fructify the more. "You search in vain through all the cemeteries of the world for the grave of the lost hope interred. "The Egyptian Pharaoh commands his name to be chiseled in a solid rock, orders his body to be embalmed, and, lying down, exclaims- 'Death, where is thy victory? Lo, I live forever!' "And, as the oldest civilization set the precedent, do have all successive layers continued to build. The horror of annihilation pervaded all souls. A conscious, rebellion, an irrepressible instinct protests against having one's being measured by the brief space of an ephemeral existence. "On that text, history ever preaches its 'sermons in stones.' On that key, all those paeans of humanity are ever set. Monuments are not dumb sentinels; nor are the songs of jubilee like campaign glees, which cloy in their sounding. They are rather rounds in the ladder of immortality, which the angels of our better nature have been building ever since the ancient patriarch saw a stairway between heaven and earth. "If we are silent, 'the stones will cry out,' declared Jesus of Nazareth. Montgomery's centennial jubilee needs no words of justification, no defence; not even an apology. It does not confront us as a historical novice, an event, solitary or peculiar. It is but another building-stone that we bring for the walls of the temple of immortality, which is rising heavenward, since the creation of man 'in the image of God.' Nor will it prove a Babel tower once more. 'The maker and builder is God. The primal centenary jubilee of this province will challenge the regard of all thoughtful souls now living, and yet to live, within the province. xiv "The tower at Rhodes, it is said, stood on two shores. And so does every such memorial festival. It is rooted in the hopes of vanished ancestry and in the memory of a living posterity. Our fathers anticipated just such a memorialization at our hands. They made but a few things, but these they made well. Their homesteads stand like castles aside of the frail structures of to-day, with the moss of a full century under their roof- trees. Their handywork was, and is still, hand-work -the products of patient souls and nimble fingers, and proof against moth and rust; yea, proof against dissolution, the tooth of Time. In every surviving article which the hands of our father and mothers have made, we may read their craving after an enduring name and being. "Nor can their offspring fail to heartily to so natural a longing. We need not blush over sires genuine and noble as ours proved. They were stalwart generations of men and women, of fathers and mothers of sons and daughters; a hardy race of good blood. "The century's relics are precious then, not merely because they are a a hundred years old, but because 'these are they which testify of them' -of the generation that went before. We admire the mountains, not because or their dizzy height alone, but for that these, have been standing through all the ages that have been. We admire the stars, not because of their brilliancy alone, but because they have looked down on all generations of men. An such an unction upon the remains of our venerable pioneers. "They have all vanished, all vanished! But if we may look upon their handiwork, are the hands themselves no more? If the husk is preserved has the corn perished? If the temple still stands, has the builder of the temple ceased to be? "Then why dance around the dried and withered effects of an ancestry that is to-day no more than if it never had been? Why not follow the example of the red man, and bury the warrior's weapons with the warriors, under ground? A funeral pyre were far more becoming than a jubilee, surely. The old requiem that was doubtless sung over the mortal dust of our sires, had better be intoned over all their musty relics and remains: 'Dust to dust! Earth to earth!! Ashes to ashes!!! 'But all these are shrines and niches in which 0wners and occupants, of earlier date, From graves forgotten, stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates.' "The century's relics are not after the order of Melchizedek, 'without father or mother.' They are the title deeds to homes and lands our sires once acquired; and we are but their heirs. Hence, do we embalm in memory's cabinet their clumsy tenements, their rude utensils, their instruments so rough, their coaches lubberly, their homespun linens, and all their hands have made. "The shades of our ancestry hover over us, unless the ancients were stark mad in peopling homes and scenes familiar with 'spirits of the dead.' 'All houses wherein men have lived and died, Are haunted houses. Through the open door The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no noise upon the floor.' 'There are more guests at table than the hosts Invited; the illuminated hall Is thronged with inoffensive ghosts As silent as the picture on the wall.' "The historic places orient themselves through the presence of our sires, who gave them birth and name and fame. They are their original sponsors. "Valley Forge, laved by the Schuylkill, rises to view, like a freshwatered mermaid on the sea, rebaptized with revolutionary glory. What seemed a fiction to our young eyes, asserts itself as a frozen fact. General George Washington did indeed live, and did indeed move a bare-footed band of patriots about this historic centre, from the chilly month of December, in 1777, till the June flower foretold the budding of freedom -six whole months. From this martyr scene, those Knights of Liberty did truly march upon the hard-fought field of Monmouth, during the darkest hour and gloomiest period of the American Revolution. "Parker's Ford -that, too, swarm with phantom troops before our vision, once more pursuing the enemy, after the battle of Brandywine, seven years and one day less than one hundred years ago (September 11, 1777). "Skippack, 'the stream of sluggish waters,' liquefies just now, like the blood of St. Januarius in the presence of the faithful. The legions that moved along its banks, before and after the battle of Germantown, a century back on the 4th of October, revisit it. 'Tis as 'I've read in some old marvelous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That midnight hosts of specters pale, Beleaguered the city of Prague.' "Our worthy heroes present a fine galaxy. As is the soil, so is the fruit. In military lore, honorable mention is made of brave men who lived on our territory. General Peter Muhlenberg, of Independence days, whose statue now graces the rotunda at Washington, was born within our borders. General Andrew Porter, who fought in the Revolutionary army so gallantly, at Trenton, at Princeton, at Brandywine, and wherever courage was needed, was a native of this county. "Nor dare we forget out grand citizen-soldiers, whose records shine so brilliantly since the late period of contention and strife -Major-Generals John Frederic Hartranft and Winfield Scott Hancock. These are real genuine Montgomery-countians. And do not the names of Brooke and Zook stand in red letters? "The civil list embraces among its brighter lights a cluster of very worthy men all born here. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the lower house of Congress, was a son of the soil. And is there another province that has furnished so much good timber of which Governors are usually made? David R. Porter, Francis R. Shunk, and John F. Hartranft form a trio not so readily matched. "And still others might be noted, who would not have disgraced that chair, but who could not be accommodated for want of room! So, too, would time fail me to record all the candidates for those honorable seats in the century to come. These, those who come after us, may tell. "Our religion pages glow most brilliantly. Rev. Dr. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patron saint of the American Lutheran church, abode on this fruitful field during forty-five of his most active years. Here he wrought his greatest deeds. Here he died at the ripe age of seventy-eight years. His ashes rest at the old Trappe church, and his name fills all Christendom with its goodly savior. "Rev. Michael Schlatter the first Missionary Superintendent of the Reformed church in the United States, made his head centre in Montgomery County. From this point outward he organized the scattered flocks of his faith, and died within its borders, a Christian soldier both for Christ and Caesar. "And of all the counties of the Commonwealth, none opened its doors wider to the oppressed for conscience' sake. Here the Friends found an asylum for their peaceful spirit; not only the State received its name, but our county too. The Welsh Quakers baptized it in honor of their native place beyond the sea. xv "Here the persecuted Palatines pitched their early homes. Their log houses, their log school houses, and their log churches, tell a most interesting tale of patience, endurance and martyrdom. "Here the colony of Schwenfeldians, a persecuted flock in Silesia, located and continued with us to this day, the sole place of staying in the wide, wide world. "And besides these scenes and spirits known, and lauded in history and in song, there are yet many more whom God alone knows. I mean the stalwart patriots of the Revolutionary hosts; the braves of 1812; the heroes in the Mexican war; the martyrs in the rebellion. All these toiled faithfully under their leaders, and died unhonored and unsung by pen and tongue. "And the victors in peace must not he slighted -the home guards, the tillers of the field, the honest traders in times when Indians and beast prowled about, the trusty servants of daily toil; when one hundred cents made a dollar! "Let no mention, finally, the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who wove, and spun, made the household happy within, when all was dark without. "These all with us to-day, if there be such a mystery as the 'communion of saints.' And we may do ourselves the best of service if we allow ourselves to be baptized afresh by their spirits, and draw a new supply of inspiration for the century before us. Shades of our fathers and mothers hail! "An ancient seer spoke of a child a hundred years ago. That is the portrait of Montgomery county, a century old. Aged one century, and still but an infant in the arms of Father Time. The snow white tresses that crown the head of or godly province are but as the grains of dust that float in the sunbeam, to the big eye history, or to Him in whose sight a thousand years are as one day. Only a little way from the beginning, and hardly any nearer to the end ! "As the christening of the babe follows hard on its birth, so is this festive day but the name of the province. Let it be, as every second birth should be, a regeneration period, from which we ascend the higher plane of a yet nobler life. A still grander history awaits the county. Let no Jeremiads be sung. It is now time to say, 'Vanities of vanities, all is vanity.' 'Tell us not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream; For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.' "Victor Hugo wisely says: 'There is an evil in our times; I will almost say there is one evil: a certain tendency to place everything in this life.' This serious and eloquent Frenchmen declares: 'There would be no dignity in living if we had to die completely. What lightens labor, sanctifies work, renders man brave, good, wise, patient, benevolent, just, at once humble and great, worthy of knowledge, worthy of liberty, is the fact that he had before him the perpetual vision of a better world shining across the shadow of life.' 'As for myself,' this gospel novelist affirms, 'I believe profoundly in this better world; and after many struggles, much study and many trials it is the supreme assurance of my reason, as it is the supreme consolation of my soul.' "As there is no dead past, so neither is there a dead future. All time is God's -the past, the present, and the future, since 'He was, and is, and is to come.' Let us not be such outrageous optimists as to look back upon the age of our sires as upon an age of darkness and void. Nor will we turn into morbid pessimists, and say, as men have kept on saying ever since the time of old Nestor: 'The former days were better than these. No! Manhood is better than infancy or childhood! The best of history's crop is not under ground. Blessed are our eyes, for our fathers desired to see what their son see, and did not see it! There never has been an age like ours! "But the harvest of to-day, is but the seed of yesterday matured. Therefore 'whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be virtue, if there be any praise, within our borders in the year of grace, 1884, all is but fruiting of the seed embedded by ancestral hands years ago. It has not been lying torpid like the grain of wheat in the Egyptian mummy, but has fructified and grown. There is new thing under the sun. All things are falling upward. Our chief business is to be consecrated to the work of perpetuating the building which the sires have founded; building on and up, that our posterity may receive it from our hands, even as we have fallen heir to it 'by the father's will and testament,' another century's length improved. 'Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.' "After our jubilee anthems have died away in total silence, and the waves of rejoicing are merged again in the steady stream of time, like the practical Roman, the still more practical Yankee, will ask the question, 'Cui Bono?' What shall the answer be? 'Ye whose heart are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe that in all ages Every human heart is human, Listen to this simple story Of the here and the hereafter.' "This province has made a confessional act of gratitude to Almighty Good for his amiable and adorable Providence, but records its acknowledgment on its historical Ebenezer. 'Hitherto the Lord hath us.' "This province has performed an act of filial piety, in memory of a worthy ancestry, and thereby challenges the fulfillment of the first commandment with promise: 'Honor thy father and thy mother.' "This province has achieved an educational act, which teaches those living, and yet to live, that brave men lived before Agamemnon.' "This providence has erected a triple tower of Faith, Hope, and Charity, for another century to come, on which we and our children may read 'He who led the sires will lead the sons.' "And, surely, with such a spirit of reverence within its loins, Montgomery county may be considered good for another century, I trust. At the conclusion of Dr. Weiser's oration, the whole audience arose by request, and united in singing the long meter doxology 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow.' After which the Rev. Mr. Rodenbough pronounced the following BENEDICTION. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, our Heavenly Father, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, be with us and with all the people of God, now and evermore. Amen. xvi THIRD DAY. THE PARADE. Thursday, September 11, was parade day. The parade was formed on the streets of Stony Creek. Every division had its particular street upon which to form, so that the procession started with very little confusion. Col. John W. Shall was Chief Marshal, and in his efficient work, the success of the parade in a great measure was due. There was less delay than usual on such occasions. The parade was to have started at ten o'clock A. M. At fifteen minutes past that time, the head of the line moved over the route selected. PICTURE OF THE PARADE, APPEARS HERE. The parade was formed and marched according to the following order, issued by the Chief Marshal. NORRISTOWN, September 1, 1884. GENERAL ORDER, NO. 1. I. The parade in honor of the centennial of Montgomery county on Thursday, September 11th, 1884, will be composed of four divisions, as follows: FIRST DIVISION. Col D. C. Swank, Marshal. Indian children Grand Army of the Republic National Guard of Pennsylvania. SECOND DIVISION. J. P. Hale Jenkins, Esq., Marshal. Will be composed of fraternal and benevolent organizations. THIRD DIVISION. Major D. B. Hartranft, Marshal. Will be composed entirely of firemen. FOURTH DIVISION. T. J. Baker, Marshal. Manufacturers, Trades, and industrial Pursuits. II. The respective divisions will form at 9:30 A. M., as follows: First Division -On Astor Street right resting on Marshall facing west. Second Division -On Chain street, north and south of Marshall street, right resting on Marshall street. Third Division -On George street, north and south of Marshall street, right resting on Marshall street. Fourth Division -On Haws Avenue, right resting on Main street, and on Main street, right resting on Stanbridge street, and facing east. Sewing machine display will form on Kohn street, right resting on Airy Street. Dairy display on Stanbridge Street, north of Marshall street, right resting on Marshall. III. The column will move promptly at 10 o'clock A.M., over the following route: Marshall to Stanbridge, to Main, to Walnut, to Airy, to Arch, to Marshall, to Church, to Airy, to DeKalb, to Penn, to Swede, to Chestnut, to DeKalb, to Spruce, to Willow, to Elm, to Swede, to Oak, to Cherry, to Main, and dismiss. IV. Division Marshals will appoint a sufficient number of Aids, and will issue such orders relative to the formation of their respective divisions as they may deem necessary. V. All organizations arriving via the Reading Railroad will disembark at Main Street station, and those arriving via Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley will disembark at Franklin avenue station. By order of Chief Marshal. THOMAS J. STEWART, Chief of Staff. At the court-house the parade was reviewed by the officers of the Association, who left the line when it arrived at that point. The following constituted the order of the parade: Chief Marshal- Col John W. Schall. Chief of Staff- Thomas J. Stewart. Aids- Dr. J. K. Weaver Dr. William J. Ashenfelter John Pugh Roscoe K. Moir Isaac Chism, Esq. FIRST DIVISION. Marshal- Col. Daniel C. Swank. Aids- George G. Hover, Esq. J. Schrack Shearer John A. Vanderslice. Pottstown Cornet Band, 20 Pieces. Zook Post Drum Corps. Company F Sixth Regiment N. G. Pa. uniformed and armed Capt. Henry Jacobs, commanding. Zook Post No. 11, G. A. R. of Norristown, in full uniform, with battle flags. Hiram Hansell, Commander. Liberal Drum Corps. George A. Smith Post, No. 79, G. A. R. of Conshohocken. James Wolfong, Commander. Twenty Indian boys from the Indian Department of Lincoln Institute, uniformed. Seventy-five Indian girls from the same Institution in carriages. Under charge of David Schall, Marshal's Aid. Carriages with Officers of the Centennial Association and invited guests, as follows: 1. Joseph Fornance, Esq.; F 0. Hobson, Esq.; J. A. Strassburger, Esq. Muscoe M. Gibson, Esq. 2. Hon. B. Markley Boyer; Hon. Isaac F. Yost; Gen. John H. Hobart. 3. William J. Buck; Abraham H. Cassel; Henry S. Dotterer; Robert Iredell. 4. Mrs. Dr. George W. Holstein, Mrs. Sarah H. Tyson, Mrs. C. R. Hallowell. 5. Hon. I. Newton Evans, Hon. William H. Sutton, Hon. L. Lewis Royer, John W. Bickel, Esq. 6. Henry W. Kratz, Edwin S. Stahlnecker, Hiram Burdan, William Rittenhouse. 7. Prof. J. Shelly Weinberger, Dr. Milton Newberry, Prof. R. F. Hoffecker. 8. Prof. S. U. Brunner, Thomas G. Rutter, James B. Harvey, George F. Wanger. xvii 9. B. Frank Tyson, Septimus Roberts, James B Holland, Major William H Holstein. Carriages containing Town Council of Norristown. Town Council of Bridgeport. Town Council of Pottstown. Visiting officials from other boroughs. SECOND DIVISION. Marshal- J. P. Hale Jenkins, Esq. Aids- Edward P. Gresh Hon. George N. Corson Dr. M. Y. Weber Liberty Legion Pioneer Corps, in full uniform carrying axes. Capt. Edward Bisbing, Commander. East Greenville Cornet Band. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Aaron Sperry, Marshal. Represented by the following lodges: Montgomery, No. 57 Curtis, No. 239 Norris, No. 430 Pennsburg, No.449 Perkiomenville, No. 367. Merion Cornet Band. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, viz: Economy, No. 397 Merion, No. 210 Gratitude, No.214 Banyan Tree, No. 100 Spring House, No. 329. Ironbridge Coronet band. Limerick Council, No. 278, Order United American Mechanics, in regalia, with man disguised as an Indian, bearing axe. Milton T. Miller, Marshal. Eagleville Cornet Band. Neville Council, No. 25, Junior Order of Mechanics. William Thompson, Marshal. Republic Invincible Pioneer Corps, uniformed in red shirts and white helmets. Markley Murray, Commander. Frankfield's West Philadelphia Band. Knights of Friendship. Hon. George N Corson, Marshal. H. C. Gerhart, Assistant Marshal. Represented by the following chambers: Harmony, No.1 Protection, No.8 George Washington, No.16 Alpha, of Camden Consonance, of Norristown Fidelia, of Reading. In full regalia, white plumes, and appropriate banners. Alpha Fife and Drum Corp of Reading. Jenkinstown Band. Abington Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Dark clothes, fatigue caps, and swords. Charles Gentry. S. K., Commander. Knight of Pythias No. 388 of Shoemakertown. White helmet and plumes. William Flower, S. K., Commander. State Fencibles Drum Corps. Delegation from the First Regiment Philadelphia. Knights of the Golden Eagle. R. J. Lumpkin, Marshal. Aids- Dr. Isaac Taylor, Olivet Castle J. D. Barnes, Coeur De Lion Castle E. M. Lowery, St. John Castle. Cyrus Castle, No. 1, K. of G. E., 50 men. H. R. Lightcap, N. C. Members of Keystone, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Crusaders, St. John, Aurora, Ingomar, Ivanhoe, Waverly, Columbia, Welcome, Oriental, Quaker City, Southwark, Pilgrim, Warwick, Apollo, Constantine, Cyrene, Kenilworth, Lincoln, Fidelity, Shekinah, Olivet, Coeur DeLion, Knights and Grand Castle officers of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. Washington Gray's Band. T. M. K. Lee Drum Corps of Philadelphia. THIRD DIVISION. Marshal- Major D. B. Hartranft. Aids- Augustus W. Lukens Samuel Money, Jr., Esq. Col. Edw. Schall S. P. Hanson, Esq. First Regiment Band of Wilmington, Del. Norristown Hose Company. Eugene D. Egbert, Esq., Marshal. Assistants- F. W. Hillebrecht Levi Landis Richard Wilson. Franklin Band of Philadelphia. Montgomery Fire Company of Norristown, uniformed. Dark overcoat and helmet hats. W. H. Koplin, Marshal. Independent Band of Manayunk. South Penn Hose Company of Philadelphia. Red shirts and helmets. Henry Stedelman, Marshal. Sixth Regiment Band of Camden. Volunteer Firemen's Association of Philadelphia. R. M. Stanton, Marshal. First division, in fatigue dress. Northern Liberty Fife and Drum Corps. Second Division in full uniform. Gray overcoats and hemlets. Weccacoe Band. Humane Steam Fire Engine Company of Norristown Engine drawn by four horses. Uniform- white hat, nickle front, light overcoat, red shirt, and black pants. William Stahler, Marshal. Southwark Drum Corps. Niagara Hose Company, of Philadelphia with hose carriage drawn by hand. James J. Daly, Marshal. Metropolitan Band. Fairmount Hook and Ladder Company of Norristown with truck drawn by four horse end hose carriage drawn by hand. Uniform - red shirt, red hat and black pants. Marshal- John Burnett. Company Marshal-Edward Kehoe. Assistants- Howard Moore, L. B. Shaffer. FOURTH DIVISION. Marshal- T. Jefferson Baker. Aids- Louis Sritzinger William D. Heebner W. S. Stacker M. Mack Walter Keim David Ross, Esq. O. K. Beyer W. A. Bunting Charles Ramey James Hunsicker J. C. Jones Adolph Dagen. George Bullock Band. Employees of Conshohocken Worsted Mills. W. M. MacKenzie, Marshal. 225 men, with blue silk banner, followed by large float, with engine and machinery running. Float, with Hon. Hiram C. Hoover whetting old fashion scythe. Float with Samuel F. Jarrett threshing grain with flail. R. R. Dehaven, Norristown. Agriculture Machines. The Hubbard Gleaner and Binder. West Point Engine and Machine Works. Two large floats with steam farm machinery running. Samuel Effrig & Co., Lansdale. Smoke-house on wheels curing hams. A. C. Godshalk & Bro., Lansdale. Wagon loaded with flour. Heebner & Sons, Lansdale. Agriculture machines. A. D. Ruth, Lansdale. Agricultural machines. J. S. Geller, Lansdale. Wagons with furniture. W. H. Derrickson, Gulf Mills. Bricklayers with tools on decorated float. J. K. Hendricks, Norristown. Wagon loaded with wheat and flour, with musicians on top. A. F. Jarrett, Norristown. Float loaded with flour, and placard announcing his mill the first in the county. Hibberd and Brooke, Bridgeport. Wagon loaded with flour. F. G. Stritzinger, Norristown. Imitation of an oven on wheels, with bakers at work, and several decorated wagons. xviii William H. Koplin, Norristown. Decorated wagons with tin ware. Hercules Cigar Factory. Wagon with cigar makers at work. J. E. Boucot, Bridgeport. Wagon with a pryamid ten feet high, covered with watches. George W. Smith, Norristown. Float with cutters at work. H. A. Derr, Norristown. Wagon containing monuments. Lower Manufacturing Company. Float specimens of their stoves and heater. W. S. Richards & Co., Bridgeport. Float with freight elevators. John Striver, Norristown. Decorated wagon and cart, with workmen carrying digging tools. S. Gillinger & Bros., Barren Hill. Wagon with terra-cotta work. W. J. Graver & Sons, Plymouth. Wagon surmounted by immense tin horn, with four horses, two ridden by knights in armor. P. Curran and P. McGraf. Ornamented liquor wagons. John C. Muller. Ornamented wagons. D. H. Streeper, Norristown. Perkin's wind-mill on ornamented wagon. Blasius & Sons, Norristown. Ornamented wagon. D. Y. Mowday, Norristown. Wagon loaded with furniture. J. C. Hallowell, Norristown. Ornamented wagon, docorated with shirts. Lansdale Band. Butcher's Association. S. J. Long, Marshal. Jesse B. Davis, Norristown. Wagon containing live sheep. John B. Horn, Bridgeport. Wagon with large screen, decorated with hams, sausages, and tongue. Butchers in silk hats, whit shirts, and blue sashes. Forty men on horseback. S. J. Long, Norristown. Wagon with hides and horns. R. Scheetz, Norristown. Boys with banner delivery wagons and wagons with large transparency bearing his business cards. Also similar wagon with six horses and men on top throwing soap to the crowd. Jerry March and A. Finley, Norristown. Grocer's wagon. John Kneas, Norristown. Norristown Wagon with tri-colored cover. A. H. March, George W. Roberts, Joseph Middleton, Norristown Wagons. A. Richardson, Norristown. Large wagon filled with little girls. William Rittenhouse, Norristown. Wagon. S. M. Moore, Norristown. Wagon loaded with watermelon. Wagons from North Wales, Marble Books. Philip Quillman, Norristown. Wagon with German Band Float with fine china and Lucas's paint driven by men in three-cornered hats. Also a float with Quaker gun and soldier in Continental uniforms. W. H. Kneas, Norristown. Coal cart, with large shield bearing his name. Hatboro Band. E Neal, Jarrettown. Six large wagons, one with a transparency inscribed, "Our motto is unity with our sister counties in the advancement of skill in labor." Another was driven by a masked demon, and had a model of a hay wagon on top. Roxborough Carriage Works. Carriages on Floats. Moore & Rose, Norristown. Webster wagon, on top of which was a carriage containing a gaily dressed colored lady. M. S. Freeman, Norristown. Domestic sewing machines, one with an organette attached. Singer Manufacturing Co. Six teams. Drop cabinet in operation. Wagon with three machines run by little girls. Milk Dealer's Association. Decorated wagons. Coal Dealers. Carts gaily decorated, filled with workmen. Prof. Dill's, Balm of Life wagon, with red tent and blue banner. THE INDIAN CHILDREN. A feature of great interest in parade was the delegation of Indian children, from the Indian department of the Lincoln Institutes of Philadelphia. They occupied open conveyances in the procession. They were in charge of Mrs. J. Bellangee Coxe and their chaplain, Rev. J. L. Miller, and were received and cared for during their stay by David Schall. After the parade they were taken to the tents in the court house yard, where they received their dinner after which they sang several choruses. ___________________ At this point Col. Theo. W. Bean, on behalf of the Centennial Association, addressed them as follows: ADDRESS. Children of Cheiftains and Warriors- In the name of the good people of Montgomery County we cordially welcome you and the Christian philanthropists who have you in charge to the memorial festivities of our centennial celebration. We recognize in you the descendants of the race who once were the proud possessors of the ground we now occupy, and honorably and peaceably acquired of them by William Penn, the founder of our Commonwealth. Two hundred years and more have elapsed since Christian civilization confronted your forefathers in the Schuylkill valley. Your hunting grounds have been turned into wide areas of agriculture wealth and commercial splendor, and the rude implements of their simple mode of living are now here on exhibition as antique curiousities. Back to the Alleghanies, across the Fathers of Waters, over and beyond the Rocky Mountains, your race has receded, and from the plains and forests of the Pacific slopes you have been gathered as the children of lost tribes, in the hope of saving the remnant of a people whose orgin is still an ethnological mystery, and whose honor is vouched for by the Acrelius, Penn, Logan, Heckwelder, Gordon, and Weiser. Children, you are the hopeful wards of humane men and women. We first learned of your presence in our midst through the efforts of Mrs. Coxe, who is in attendance upon you to-day. Our people have been delighted with the thought and reality of having you as our guests, and hope you will improve the advantages of training in store for you. And when you have grown to well-informed man and womanhood, we trust you will carry with you to your far Western homes the potent agencies of a liberal Christian civilization; that you all will all become active factors for the redemption of your tribes and race; that you will become good husbandman, industrious artisans, devoted teachers, peaceful men and woman. Then you will have descendents who will some future day memorialize your inscrutable past in pictures and story, and worthily lead you in sharing the blessing of peace and prosperity, the heritage of all in our country. Rev. Joseph L. Miller, chaplain of the institution, responded to the address on behalf of visitors, in a short speech. xix FOURTH DAY. The Antiquarian Exposition was the only features on the concluding day of the county's centennial, and was attended by about fifteen thousand persons, during the celebration. It was held in the Court House yard. The articles sent for exhibition were appropriate in selection and endless in variety. Their number was far in excess of the space available and prepared for their display; yet under the able management and sound judgement of the committees, such disposition was made of them as gave general satisfaction to the exhibitors and unbounded pleasure to the visitors. The character of the exhibits was thoroughly representative. Every era in our history, every nationality rooted within our borders, every denomination which hex here enjoyed religious freedom, contributed objects select and typical. Most of the prominent families identified with the progress of this region, from the time of the pioneer settlers, down to the present day, am their Bibles and books, treasured heirlooms, works of art and antiquity-their Lares and Penates-symbols of refinement and taste- evidences of reverential regard for the men and things of the Past. The Exposition was educational in its influence upon our people. It stimulated a taste for the artistic and the beautiful, for the preservation of antiquities and for the prosecution of historical research. It afforded the first opportunity to the Inhabitants of our county, to realize how general is the love for that which is superior to the merely practical, and how widely diffused is the appreciation of that which appeals to the higher sensibilities. It win leave a permanent impress for good. The following is a classified list of exhibits, with an alphabetically arranged list of exhibitors. To many of the articles are appended notes, furnished generally by the owners, impacting the history of the exhibits which will be found of touch interest now, and of great value in the future. LIST OF EXHIBITS. COMPILED BY HENRY S. DOTTERER. CLASS I. INDIAN RELICS AND ANTIQUITIES. Abraham, Joseph Abrams. Fifty Arrows-heads found by exhibitor on the supposed site of a Lenni-Lenape village near the junction of Elliott's ran end the Schuylkill river. Ambler, Joseph E., Ambler. Indian Riding Whip and Mocasins, presented to exhibitor by Indiana on the reservation of the Iowa tribe and the Sacs and Foxes. Anders, Amos S., Norritonville. Indian Arrow-heads. Anderson, M. P. Trappe. Indian Relics. Atkinson, F. C., Norristown. Indian Axe, found in Plymouth township Bates Cornelius, Jenkinstown. Two Stone Axes, found in Montgomery County. Twenty-eight Stone Hatches. Blackfan, Mrs. Joseph, Norristown. Indian Tomahawk, found on a farm in Farmingdale, Monmouth county, New Jersey. Boorse, Ella R., Kulpsville. Indian Basket. Boorse, John C., Kulpsville. Indian axe. Bucks, William J., Jenkinstown. Iron Tomahawk, from an Indian grave in Moreland, in 1855. Supposed to be of Dutch or Swedish make, some time before Penn's arrival. Twenty-nine Indian Darts, found in Montgomery county between 1842 and 1880. Childs, S. Powell, Plymouth. Indian Relics. Conrow, Mrs. George E. B., Norristown. One Mexican India. Pepper Grinder, and one Mexican Indian Dish. Both made by the natives. Corson, Miss Georgie, Norristown. Indian Arrow-heads, found on the banks of the Susquehanna. Cox, Mrs. Charles, Ambler. Splint Banked, Made by Indiana 100 years old. Dalton, John, Abrams. Indian Axe, plowed from the farm in 1883. Detwiler, Jones, Blue Bell. Arrow Points Tomahawk Skinning Stones, Hoes, Sling Stones, Rubbers, and Whetstones. 164 pieces Elkinton, Paul P., Blue Bell. Indian Axe-head and Arrow-heads, found on the farm near Blue Bell. Fitzgerald Jesse O., Horsham. Collection of sixty-eight Indian Relics, found on the farm of James W. Iredell in Horsham township between the years 1874 and 1884. This farm of seventy-five acre was formerly owned by the Lukens family. It is near the head-waters of the creek bearing the Indian name Pemmapeeka, which passes through it. On the adjoining farm, formerly of Isaac Lukens, now of Harris Webster, is a spring called the Indian spring. Tradition asserts; that the Indians in former times encamped in this vicinity. Grimley, Solomon K., Schwenksville. Large Indian Axe, found by Daniel Pennypacker in 1870. Indian Stone Tomahawk, found by R. Hartzell in 1856. Large Indian Stone Bullet, found by F. S. Schwenk in 1882. Indian Stone Billy, found by F. S. Schwenk in 1881. Small Indian Stone Bullet, found by F. S. Schwenk in 1883. Twenty Indian Arrow-heads, by Ross Clinton, S. K. Grimley, Jr., and F. S. Schwenk, from 1840 to 1884. Hallman, Wilson, Shippack. Indian Axe found imbedded to mud on the banks of Skippack creek. Hamel, William, Shoemakertown. Indian Relic. Heckler, James Y., Harleysville. Indian Arrows and Fossils. Heebner, Mrs. C. B., Collegeville. Indian Spears. Hendricks, John, and William McGowan, Mont Clare. Indian Darts, found August 14, 1884 in a post-hole, on the farm of Mrs. Gertrude Thompson. Hoot, Simon F., Ironbridge. Indian Axe, found on Fry's estate, Bucks county. Jacobs, Harry, Frederick Indian Arrow-head. Jacobs, John, Frederick. Indian Battle-Axe. In excellent state of preservation. Jones, Henry, Ambler. Indian Curiosities and Relics obtained in 1870 on the reservation of the Iowa tribe and Sac and Fox. Kettarar, Roman, Somerton. Two Indian Jugs. Indian Tomahawk. Krieble, Jesse S., Worcester. Arrow-heads, found in the field Krieble, Septimus A., Kulpsville. Indian Arrow-heads. Lowe, Mrs.T. S. C., Norristown. War Club and Hatchet of Oneida Indians. Indian Hatchet. Two Indian Smoking Pipes. Indian Wooden Pipe Stem. McGowan, William, Mont Clare. See Hendricks, John. Mann, Charles S. and Albert, Horsham. Two hundred and fifty-eight Indian Relics-principally Arrow-heads and a few Knives and Spear-heads-neatly arranged in the shape of stars and darts and placed in two frames. Mann, Jesse, Pittville. Indian Stone Shovel and Indian Relics. Indian Canoe, made of birch bark. Markley, Freundschaft, The Tomahawk. Belongs to Augustus G. Markley, Collegeville. Metz, Jacob B., Norritonville. Indian Axe. 4-1/2 Inches long by 2-1/2 inches wide, found in Norriton some years ago. Nice, Robert, Branchtown. Indian Stone Pestle, for grinding corn. Nyce, George S., Frederick. Indian Battle Axe. Peterman, Frederick, Collegeville. Indian Axe of stone, found on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, above Flat Rock tunnel, in the cleft rock. A Stone Arrow-head. Ralston, Mrs. J. G., Norristown. Five pieces Indian Pottery from Mexico -two Pitchers and three Bowls, part of the large collection of the late Dr. J. G. Ralston. Two of the Bowls an the work of the Pueblo Indians; one Bowl is of dark soapstone. The Pitchers are of a micaceous clay. Rambo, Frank L., Trappe. Indian Axe. Reed, Dr. W. H., Jeffersonville. Arrow-heads, collected at Norriton. Ritchie, E. S., Hatboro. Indian Axe, found on a farm, in Upper Moreland. Roberts, Septimus, Whitpain. Indian Hammer. Rossiter, Mrs. Anna, Blue Bell. Indian Tomahawk, stone. Flint and Arrow-point. Schildt, Charles, Worcester. Indian Axe and Relics. Schultz, Amos, Niantic. Five Indian Arrow-heads. Shambough, Jackson, Collegeville. Indian Hatchet and Arrow-heads. Shay, Elizabeth Y., Three Tons. Indian Axe, found on exhibitor's farm in 1834. Shepherd, Isaac, Plymouth Meeting. Axe, made and used by the Indians. Slifer, Dr. H. F., North Wales. Lot of Indian Spears, Indian Arrows and Quiver, a Pipe, two Axes and Indian Mill, a Cap, and Ear-ring. Snyder, John H., Kulpsville. Indian Necklace, worn by a Pawnee squaw. Stannard, E. J., Broad Axe. Pestle, made and used by the Indians. Stout, Ann, Edge Hill Village. Indian Relic. Supplee, Miss Kate, Conshohocken. Two Indian Arrow-heads. Trumbasuer, J. B., Jenkinstown. Indian Maize Hammer. Tyson Benjamin F., Worcester. Indian Mortar of stone, for grinding corn. xx Tyson, Samuel, King-of-Prussia. Three Indian Pestles, found at Burlington, N. J. Three Indian Axes; one found at Norristown, the other two at Burlington, N. J. Walker, Howard, Mont Clare. Indian Hatchet. Wanger, Geo. F. Price, Norristown. Four Indian Axes. Weber, George M., Worcester. Arrow-beads and other Indian Relics, picked up in Worcester township. Yeakle, Daniel, Chestnut Hill. Indian Missiles, found on Daniel Yeakle's farm and thereabouts. Zimmerman, Mrs., J. M., Yerkes. Collection of Indian Relics. CLASS II. ANTIQUITIES OF THE FIRST SETTLERS AND EARLY PURCHASERS. Batchelder, Meredith, Norristown. Looking-Glass brought from Germany in 1746 by Nicholas Rittenhouse. Boorse, John C., Kulpsville. Nine grains of Rye, found in the plastering of the chimney of a house built by William Tennis in 1733. Ink Jug of the great-great-grandfather of exhibitor. Cope, 0. W., Hatboro. Old style Window Pane, brought from England 1720, the glass set in leaden frames, from a house still standing in Bucks County. Eastburn, Annie, Bridgeport. Cost-of-Arms; came over in a vessel with William Penn. Property of John Eastburn, Surveyor-General to the Proprietary. Erb, Mahlon, Kulpsville. Lock and Key, brought ever in 1734 by David Seibt, one of the Schwenkfelder immigrants, who was the great grandfather of the exhibitor's mother. David Seibt (now written Seipt) died in 1765, in Towamencin township, on the farm now owned by Lewis Hakel. Small sheep shears brought over by the Heydrick family, who were of the Schwenkfelders who came in 1734. Fitzwater, Mrs. Joseph, Port Providence. Seat, bearing date 1699, supposed to have belonged to William Penn. Fryer, Henry S., Skippack. Arm-Chair, brought from Germany by Michael Ziegler; traced back two hundred years. Pruning Knife, brought here Germany by Henry Fryer; 165 years old. Bread and Cake Basket; brought from Germany in 1719 by Henry Fryer. Grimley, Solomon K., Schwenkville. Tiles of Heinrick Pfannebacker, 1730. Piece of an Antler, taken out of an Indian cave, about 1784 by Solomon Grimley who settled here in 1751. Jones, Mrs. Edward Price, Norristown. China Bowl (mended), brought from Wales in 1684 by Hugh Roberts; now belongs to his descendent, the exhibitor. Krieble, Abraham K., Kulpsville. Flax, raised in Silesia; brought by the Schwenkfelders one hundred and fifty years ago. Wanger Geo. F. Price, Norristown. Scales and Weights, brought from Germany by Heinrich Wanger, founder of the Wanger family in Montgomery County. Inscription on case: Properly adjusted Scales and Weights, Master-maker Jacob Freckenberge, Scale-Maker, Underhelm, 1742. Wolfe, Dr. Samuel, Skippack. Button-Hole Hatchet, brought over by the Schwenfelders in 1734, and since then in possession of the Seipt family. CLASS III. RELICS AND RECORDS OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD. Boorse, John C., Kulpsville. Naturalization Papers with names, 1743. Cope, O. W., Hatboro. Square Tile from the Park House, erected and formerly occupied by Sir William Keith, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, appointed by William Penn. This Tile, brought from England in 1717, was one of several around the large open fireplace. Ralston, Mrs J. G., Norristown. Commissioned from Hon. James Hamilton to Richard Peters, Esq., 1746. Taylor, John, Lower Merion. Collection of Charters of Pennsylvania, viz: Royal Charter of William Penn, from Charles II. First Frame of Government, granted 1682. Act of settlement made at Chester. The Second Frame of Government, granted 1683. Charter at the City of Philadelphia, October 25, 1701. Now Charter to the Providence, October 27, 1701. Draft of Bill, dated Philadelphia, April 14, 1778, declaring the Intentions of the Parliament of Great Britain concerning the imposing of taxes within His Majesty's Dominions in North America. Wanger, Geo. F. Price, Norristown. Volume of Pennsylvania Chronicle for the year 1767. Contains an advertisement of sale of 13,00 acres of land in Fauquier County, Virginia, estate of George Carter, deceased, signed Robert Burwell, George Washington and Fielding Lewis, Trustees. The following notice from John Potts, founder of Pottstown. Appears In this volume: To the FREEHOLDERS and others, Electors for the City and County of Philadelphia: Gentlemen -I return you my sincere end hearty Thanks for the Mark of your Esteem in choosing me one of your Representatives at the last Election; but as my present Indisposition renders my Attendance at the House impossible, I beg you will choose some other Person at the coming Election, in my stead. I am respectfully yours, John Potts. A notice from the ladies also appears, that they "will neither wear Ribbons or Jewelry or drink Tea, which has to be purchased from England." The editor, commenting an this, says: "How agreeable will they appear to their native Beauty, stript of their Ornaments, from the prevailing motive of Love to their Country." Ziegler, Elmer R., Kulpsville. Bullet. Found by Rev. Samuel Hamil, one of the participants in the battle of Great Meadows, in Allegheny County, in 1754, and given to his son, Rev. Samuel Hamil, born on Main street, Norristown. CLASS IV. RELICS OF THE REVOLUTION. Bates, Cornelius, Jenkinstown. Revelutionary Pistol and Small Pistol. Two Cannon Balls, found on Edge Camp Hill supposed to be Revolutionary. Blackfan, Mrs. Joseph, Norristown. Coat, worn in the battle of Brandywine, 1777, in the Revolutionary war. Pitcher, used by General Washington while in the battle of Germantown. Carr, Mrs. E., Fort Washington. Cannon Ball, from near the camp at Fort Washington. Cassel, Isaac R., North Wales. Knife, belonging to an English officer during the Revolution. Cope, 0. W., Hatboro. Looking-Glass, with a diamond ring on the face, done by a British officer during the Revolution, in honor of the pretty daughter of the hostess the home which he was stopping, in Bristol, Bucks County. Cannon Bell, from the battle of Germantown. Gold Watch, which belonged to Lafayette, and was carried by him during the Revolution. General Lafayette gave this watch to General Smith, of Maryland, who in turn sold it to the grandfather of its present owner, John Van Pelt of Hatboro. Crawford, Mrs. V. Virginia, Bryn Mawr. Certificate to Oath of Allegiance, taken by William Crawford, to the State of Pennsylvania, in 1777. Curwen, George F., Villa Nova. Congress Chair, 1776. Davis, Jesse B., Norristown. Sword of the Revolutionary war, used by Captain James Shannon. Detwilder, Jones, Blue Bell. Statement of the account of Col. George Smith a sub-lieutenant of Philadelphia County, in which is exhibited, for the information of the public, the amount of fines received and accounted for him, between March 1777, and April, 1780. Thin pamphlet contains the names of the enrolled militia, and the amount that each individual paid for non-performance of militia duty in the townships of Plymouth, Whitpain, Providence, Norrington, Whitemarsh, Gwynedd, and Worcester. Oath of Allegiance, dated May 30, 1778 of Christian Loeser, of Whitpain township, before Seth Owen. Continental Certificate, to William Long, for one cow, sold to the government for $1,100; dated June 9, 1780. Continental Certificate, to Elias Rosenberry, for one red heifer, two years old, for $667; dated June 15, 1780. Return of Whiskey, used by the Third Picket Guard, October 17, 1781, amounting to twenty-two gills. Return of Whiskey, used by the First Picket Guard, under the care of James Irvine, Captain, at Newtown, Bucks County, for twenty-two gills; dated October 7, 1781. Dismant, Amos, Royersford. Cannonball of 1777. Eckard, James Hewitt, Abington. A Musket and Sword, which crossed the Delaware with Washington's army. Emery, Peter, Norristown. Two Pewter Plates, lettered an the rim "Margreth Beitenmannen, 1773." One of these plates was used in camp at Valley Forge by John Emmerich, a Revolutionary soldier in the company of Captain Richards, of New Hanover. John Emmerich and Margret Beiteman were married in 1773, and were the grand-parents of the exhibitor. Pewter Plate, captured from a Hessien soldier at Germantown. xxi Fitzwater, Joseph, Port Providence. Cannon Ball, found in Montgomery County, opposite Valley Forge. Bayonet, found on Washington's camp ground, Valley Forge. Forance, Mrs. Ellen Knox, Norristown. Commission of Captain Thomas Rice, of the Third Company of Artillery, 1783. Oath of Allegiance of Captain Thomas Rice, dated July 1, 1777. A Door. This door is from the house formerly occupied by Captain Andrew Knox, two miles from Norristown, at which he stood alone, and with a broad-sword defended himself against eight armed Tories sent by the British army to take him. Their determination to accomplish their object, and the desperate manner in which the Captain defended himself, is to be seen from the bullet holes in the door, as well as the impression of the butt end of the musket and marks of the bayonet. In 1777-'78, when General Washington with his army lay at Valley Forge, the General commissioned Captain Knox to cut off the supplies of the British army, which then occupied Philadelphia. So well did the Captain discharge his duty, that the enemy offered fourteen hundred pounds sterling for his person, and thirty armed men were dispatched from the army to take him and two other officers. Eight of the number arrived at his dwelling at midnight, and commanded him to surrender. He refused, and meeting them at this door with his broadsword, used it so freely on their heads as they attempted to enter, as to compel them to retreat, after severely wounding him. All of their number were more or Lee wounded; two of them so severely cut as to be taken next day, having been tracked by their blood on the snow, and found concealed a short distance from Norristown, General Washington and his officers, with Benjamin Franklin, visited Captain Knox after the contest, complimented him for his bravery, and examined and handled this door. The house to which it belonged was built about 1730 by David Knox, the first of the Knox family in America. It remained in possession of the descendants until a few years ago, when it was mid and torn down. The door was preserved by the late Colonel Thomas P. Knox. An old Bayonet, dug from a ditch near the house described above. Gillingham, E., Villa Nova. Orderly Book, kept at Valley Forge during Revolutionary war. Powder Horn, used in the Revolution. Grimley, Solomon K. Schwenksville. Three iron Bullets of the Revolutionary war, six lead Bullets, and one Flint. Found by S. R. Grimley, Jr., and S. Schillich, from 1860 to 1884. Holstein, William H., Bridgeport. Two Cannon Balls, piece of Shell, and Small Hatchet, from Valley Forge encampment. Kettarar, Roman Somerton. Six Guns from the Revolution. Sword, Captured at the battle of Paoli. Cartridge Box, 112 years old. A Bomb. A Saddle and Saddlebag. A Flask. Tin Cartridge Boxes, 82 years old. Koplin, Mrs. Mary W., Norristown. Bell-metal Kettle, used during the Revolutionary war. Kulp, Elias K,. Lederachville. Cannon Bell of about eighteen pounds, known to have been on the farm of exhibitor's grandfather ninety years, and supposed to have come down from Revolution times. Lenhart, George, Three Tuns. Cannon Ball, found on Camp Hill. Miller, Jackson W., Jeffersonville. Shoeing Hammer, used in shoeing General Washington's horse at Germantown. Nyce, George S., Frederick. Bayonet, 130 years old Belonged to Col. Anthony Bitting's regiment, in the Revolutionary war. Receipt of the Revolution: I Do Certify that Coll Robt Robinson bought at public Vendue a Continental Sorral Horse With a bald face thirteen & 1/2 hand high marked Co A on the left thigh and P P on the near fore Shoulder for Which I hive Received five hundred & five Dollars for the States Uses. [W MCCALLA, A. Q. G., 505 Dollars. Jany 10th 1780 Peehin, John W., King of Prussia. Table upon which General Washington wrote and from which he ate, at General Wayne. Rex, Jacob L, Blue Bell. Silver button, found on the farm, and supposed to be a Revolutionary Relic. Rex, Miss M. D., Flourtown. Old Sword, used In the Revolution. Rorer, Isaac, Frankford. Powder Horn, found in Cheltenham during the Revolution; handsomely carved, bearing date 1752 owner's name, John Hunt, British coat-of-arms, view of New York harbor, Masonic emblems, and maker's name, Samuel McCatlet. Rue, Louisa, Norristown. Small Breakfast Table, used by Washington and Lafayette at the Unicorn Hotel, in Delaware County, in 1776. Schumo, Dr. Eugene, Abington. Prescription Scales of Dr. Archibald McLean, Surgeon during the Revolutionary war, and practitioner of medicine in Montgomery county. Deposited by his great grandson. Sinkler, Dr. Wharton, Philadelphia. English Escutcheon, from the battle-field of Eutaw Springs. Slingluff, John, Fairview Village. Spectacles and Case, used by a relative in the Revolutionary war. Snyder, John R., Kulpsville. Small Book, left on a table by British soldiers, while in Towamencin, during the Revolution. The soldier had ordered eggs boiled. After their departure the lady of the house found the book among the egg shells. Stannard, E. J., Broad Axe. Gun, taken from an English officer the Revolutionary war. Sword, taken from a French prisoner by exhibitor's grandfather, Samuel Stannard, who was a Captain in the Revolutionary war. Cannon Ball, found In Whitpain township. Piece of Fort Ticonderoga, taken when the British surrendered. Truckess, David, Sr., Providence Square. Cannon Ball, used during the Revolution. Tyson, Mrs. Sarah H., King-of-Prussia. Washington's Candlestick and Lantern used by him at Valley Forge. They were brought from Valley Forge by John Mowerer, General Washington's wagon master, and were bought at Mowerer's sale by Joseph T. Pearce, who cried the sale, and in whose possession they now are. Weber, George M., Worcester. Box containing Musket, Rifle-Balls and Grape Shot, gathered on the ground on which Washington's army was encamped before going to Valley Forge. Also, a Riflemans's Axe or Tomahawk, plowed up at a spot where at that time was a spring at which the soldiers drank, but which entirely disappeared forty years ago. Large Chest, bearing the name Barbara Briderin, dated 1769. This was the property of the exhibitor's grandparents, Abraham and Elizabeth Weber. Abraham Weber served for a time in the Continental army and died in 1844. This Chest, tradition says, was brought to this country from Germany before the Revolutionary war. During the war certain valuable goods were placed in it for safe keeping, and it, with these contents, was put in a hay stack. Certain parties, searching for the chest, discovered it by thrusting pointed sticks of hard wood into the stack, producing marks which it still bears. The chest was broken open and the contents confiscated. Wentz, Daniel, Fort Washington. Camp Axe, found on the camp ground, near St Thomas' Church, at Fort Washington. Yeakle, Daniel, Chestnut Hill. Powder Horn, used during the Revolution by an ancestor of exhibitor. CLASS V. RELICS OF WAR OF 1812. Beck, Mrs. John P., Centre Square. Fife, Flute, and Manuscript Music, used by Henry Beck (near Easton), who was a fifer in the war of 1812. Cassel, Isaac R., North Wales. Sword of the War of 1812. Cope, 0. W., Hatboro. Sword of Commodore Isaac Hull, commander of the Constitution in the action with the Guerriere. The property of William Wade, Horsham. Cox, Mrs. Charles, Ambler. Two Flints, formerly the property of Charles Cox, a veteran of the war of 1812 Davis, Jesse B., Norristown. Sword, used in the War of 1812 by John Llewellyn, the exhibitor's grandfather. Dorworth, Joseph H., Norritonville. Pistol, belonging to the First Troop of Montgomery county, in the War 1812. Keech, Jacob, Lower Merion. Pistol and Knife, used in the War of 1812 by John Llewellyn, the exhibitors grandfather. O'Bryan, Mrs. J. Duross, Ardmore. Bayonet of 1812. Canister Shot, very old. Slifer, Dr. H. F., North Wales. Two Swords of the War of 1812 Slingluff, Mrs. W. F., Norristown. Canteen, used in the War of 1812. Smith, James B., Jenkinstown. Drum, and In the War of 1812 by George Servis. Sower, F. D., Norristown. Sword, used by the troops in 1812 Thomas, Mrs. Abel, Royersford. Snuffbox, used in the War of 1812. Wolf, Mrs. Anstina, Plymouth Jacket, worn in the War of 1812 by exhibitor's father, Daniel Streeper, late of Barren Hill. xxii CLASS VI. RELICS OF THE MEXICAN WAR. Keech, Jacob, Lower Merion. Mexican Cartridge, taken at the battle of Monterey. Lower, George, Flourtown. Mexican Bridle, rein of hair, peculiar bit mounting of silver. This Bridle was brought from Mexico, at the does of the war, by the exhibitor, who arrived at Philadelphia, on his return, on July 23, 1848. CLASS VII. RELICS OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION. Anders, George H., Norritonville. Button, from the late war. Balls picked from the battle fields of the last war. Bolton, Levi, Norristown. Three leaden Mortars, made from Rebel bullets. Cassel, Isaac R., North Wales. Bowie Knife of the late war. Piece of the Rebel iron-clad Merrimac. Cartridge, found on the battle gold of Antietam. Book, found an the battle field of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Calvary Post, No. 35 G. A. R., Philadelphia. Wooden Figure of a Horse, with arms and equipments used in the cavalry service in the late war. PICTURE OF HORSE MADE UP OF MILITARY ARMS, APPEARS HERE. Evans, William G., Norristown. Soldier's Cap, from the battle of the Wilderness, 1864. Belt, Cartridge Box, and Knapsack, 1863. Hines, Lizzie, Port Kennedy. Sabre, used by Henry Clay Moore in the late war. Holstein, Mrs. Dr. George W., Bridgeport. Pair of Dice Boxes and Knife. These articles were made in Libby Prison by Lieut. T. Dewees. Jones, Charles W., Conshohocken. Sabre, taken from the battle field of Antietam. Jones, Percy, Conshohocken. Sword, picked up on the battle field of Antietam. Minie Ball, found on Gettysburg battle field. Loch, John W., Norristown. Sword, found on the field of Gettysburg. Moore, Mrs. Nathan, Centre Square. Flag, Knife, and Relies of the war for the Union. Morrison, Mrs., Conshohocken. Two Knives, taken from the Rebels in the Civil War. Peterman, Frederick, Collegeville. Block of stone from the blown-up mine at Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864. Powers, John Norristown. Confederate Dagger, captured by Charles F. McKenna; Company E., Forty-Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Rudy, John, Norristown. Lamp made form a bomb shell found at Gettysburg. The brass piece on the top was made from the side of a Rebel drum. Schall, Col. Edward, Norristown. A Shell, from the battle field of Fredricksberg. A Cannon Ball, from the battle field of Antietam. A Whitworth Projectile, from Sulphur Springs, Va., picked up immediately after it had been fired. Two large knives nearly the size of a cutlass, captured at the battle of Roanoke, N.C. A Sword, worn by Col. Edwin Schall, at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., when killed. A Small Box made out of wood from at bridge at Antietam and containing small and large bells picked up on the day of the battle. A Bugle, carried by a Captain of the Fifty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Slifer, Dr. H. F., North Wales. Two Swords from the Rebellion. Relics of the battle of Gettysburg. Confederate Sword. Stein, Mrs. H., Norristown. Gun, used in the battle of Antietam. Stevens, Henry A., Norristown. Revolving Rifle, ten-shooter, captured by Captain D. L. Stevens of the six-gun battery of the United State Ship Mississippi, under Farragut, on the right of the river, below Now Orleans in a hand-to-hand encounter, on April 25, 1862. Walker, E. H., Jarrettown. Canteen, from the late war. Picture Frame, made in Virginia during the late war Bayonet, from Petersburg, 1865. Head of a Standard, from Richmond. Cane, from City Point, in the late war. Ziegler, Elmer R., Kulpsville. United States Badge, found on Kulp's Hill, Gettysburg. CLASS VIII. IMPLEMENTS OF EARLY HUSBANDRY. Cassel, Abraham H., Harleysville. Ancient Crosscut Saw, which, with its handles, was forged out of a solid piece of steel, on a common anvil, by an ingenious blacksmith, in early colonial times. Its history is known for one hundred and fifty years. Handsaw, formerly the property of Hupert Cassel, a famous carpenter of Worcester, and the grandfather of the exhibitor. At least one hundred years old. Comly, J. J., Horsham. Plow, with wooden mould board. Custer, Philip B., Norristonville. Sickle, over one hundred years old. Fryer, Henry A., West Point. Pruning Knife, brought from Germany. One hundred and sixty-five years old. Heebner, John S., West Point. Wooden Fork. Homer, Morris, Willow Grove. Sickle, for cutting grain. "D. J. 1750," cut on the handle. Jones, Margaret H., Oak Lane. Seed Chest, nearly two hundred years old. Kettarar, Herman, Somerton. Old-fashioned hand-made Hoe. Yoke, one hundred and thirty years old. Old Tree Clipper. Krieble, Septimus A., Kulpsville. Sickle, one hundred Years old. Loos, Mrs., Norristown. Hoe, one hundred and thirty years old. Roberts, Septimus, Whitpain. Scythe, Sickkle Forks, Rake, Hoe, Wooden Shovel and Flail; very old. Williams, Thomas, Pittville. Plow, used in Delaware, 0., up to the year 1812. It is marked "1776," and to supposed to have been made at that time. Young, Samuel, Sr., Norristown. Sickle, one hundred and twenty-five years old. xxiii CLASS IX. IMPLEMENTS AND ARTICLES OF HOUSEHOLD IN EARLY TIMES. Ambler, Aaron, Norritonville. Shovels and Tongs. Snuffer Tray. Dust Brush. Anders, Amos S., Norritonville. Spinning-wheal and Reel. Beerer, Rosa, East Perkiomen. Parlor Lamp of ye olden time, formerly owned by Mrs. Kemmerer, great-grandmother of the exhibitor. Berkheimer, Mrs., John, Broad Axe. Candle Stand, very old-fashioned. Beyer, Benjamin, Norritonville. Wool Wheel and Spinning wheel. Sausage Stuffer. Bickel, Mrs. E. B., Norristown. Flax Hackel, one hundred and six years old. Property of Thomas Dorworth. Bickel, Mrs., Norristown. Candlestick. Spinning-wheel. Bisson, Jane, Three Tons. Pair Draw Candlestick, 75 years old. Blackfan, Miss, Norristown. Pair Tongs and Shovel, 100 years old. Branin, George, Jenkintown. Wool Card. Branin, Mrs. George, Jenkintown. Candlestick and Candle, very old. Brunner, Miss Mary, Worcester. Old Basket. Buck, William J., Jenkintown. Warming Pan of Sir William Keith, of Horsham. Mentioned in a bill of sale May 2, 1726, to Dr. Thomas Graeme, as a "Bed Pan." Bought by J. B. Buck, in 1860 at David Lloyd's sale. Cassel, Abraham H., Harleysville. Iron Lamp and Rack. Conard, Edward B., Port Kennedy. Two Barrels, hollowed from logs. Cope, O. W., Hatboro. Spice Mill of the seventeenth century. The property of William Wade, Horsham. Coffee Mill, used in Gen. George Washington's family while living at Mount Vernon. The property of Molinda Wood, Philadelphia. Corson, Mrs. Dr. Hiram, Conshohocken. Shovels and Tongs. Cresson, Mary J., Norristown. Warming Pan, age unknown. Custer, Philip B., Norritonville. Spinning Wheel, 106 years old. Lard Lamp, supposed to be 100 years old. Davis, Jesse B., Norristown. Warming Pan, 120 years old. Davis, John J., Jenkintown. Crimping Machine, brought from Wales many years ago, by the mother of the exhibitor. Dismant, Mrs. Amos, Royersford. Candlestick, 155 year old. Spinning Wheel. Dotts, George, West Point. Ancient Lamp. Eberle, The Misses, Oak Lane. Brass Candle stick. Ebersole, Mrs. S. A., Hartranft. Spinning Wheel. Elkington, George, Blue Bell. Brass Warming Pan (to contain coal for warming beds), 103 years old. Emory, John, Cheltenham. Bed Warmer. Famous, Andrew S., Norritonville. Old Snuffers. Four Hackles. Felton, Mrs. Joseph, Jenkintown. Snuffers, date 1770. Felty, Samuel, Jenkintown. Tongs and Iron Lamp, brought from Germany before the Revolution. Fisher, Jacob, Worcester. Bellows. Freedley, Mrs. Dr., Conshohocken. Basin and Ewer, over 100 years old. Fryer, Henry S., Skippack. Hanging Lamp. 100 years old. Flax. Hackle, supposed to be 200 years old. Gotwals, Abraham, Belfry. Tongs 100 years old. Gotwals, William K., Fairview Village. Spinning Wheel, marked "I. R., 1760," made by I. Rosen, at Fairview, in the year 1760. Grimley, Miss Olivia K., Schwenksville. Fire Tongs, 100 years old. Have been in the Benner and Bergey families, and are now owned by John Ratcliff. Grimley, Solomon R, Schwenkville. Old Hackle. Belonged to B. Halterman in 1774, to Solomon Grimley in 1761, and to B. Scholl from 1808 to 1866, when it was purchased by the exhibitor. Harvey, Mrs. J. J. C., Jenkintown. Tinder Box. Heebner, John S., West Point. Spinning Wheel, dated 1741. Tape Loom, ancient. Hellerman, Mrs., Josiah, Cheltenham. Foot Warmer, over 100 years old. Hendricks, Mrs. Jaime, North Wales. Two Flax Hackles, made in 1772. Holland, Mrs. Eliza, Jarrettown. Pair Candlesticks 75 years old. Hughes, Mrs. William, King-of-Prussia. Candlestick over 100 years old. Hunsicker, A. Jr., Collegeville. Bed Warming Pan, formerly belong to Wright A. Bringhurst. Jones, Mrs. Ann C., Spring Mill. Hand Loom. Kemery, C. M., Abrahams. Wood Stove Rake, known to be 203 years old. Kettarar, Roman, Somerton. Five old Lamps. Self-heating Flat-iron. Foot Heater and Bed Heater. Tongs and Poker. Four different kinds of Candlesticks. Old-fashioned Washing Machine. Kneas, Miss Ella, Norristown. Round and Oval Paper Boxes, of various colors, formerly the property of Mrs. Savilla Root, of Worcester, a great-great-aunt of the exhibitor. Kohl, George M., Jenkinton. Snuffers, used in the days of tallow candles. Lowe, Mrs. T. S. C., Norristown. Old Brass Candlestick. Lukens, Mrs. Jawood, Conshohocken. Brass Candlestick, Snuffer and Tray. McCabe, Mrs. Thomas, Oaks. Candlestick, 120 years old, brought from England. McClain, Mrs. John, Hartranft. Spinning Wheel, over 100 years old. Mann, John H., Horsham. Foot Stove, 75 years old. Markley, Margaret, Fairview Village. Clothes Brush. Mather, C., Jenkintown. Warming Pan, very ancient. Meredith, Mrs. Samuel, Norristown. Old-fashioned Warming Pan and two brass Candlesticks, brought from England many years ago. Miles, Mrs. Isabella, Gulf Mills. Bed Warmer. Mills, Mrs. Jane, Norristown. Clothes Brush, over 130 years old in the family. Morgan, Mrs. James, Ardmore. Bellows, over 100 years old. Nyce, George S., Frederick. Old-fashioned Lard Dip (Lamp), 130 years old. Cotton Spindle, 125 years old. O'Neil, Samuel, Norristown. Spinning Wheel. Owen, Mrs. William W., Norristown. Brass Candle Stick, 150 years old; owned by Miss Shearer. Paiste, Robert, Norristown. Pair brass Candlesticks, 100 years old. Pawling, Mrs. Dr., Norristown. Spinning Wheel, Reel and Spindle. Pechin, John W., King-of-Prussia. Candlesticks. Lamp from France; very old. Pomeroy, Mrs. H. S., Norristown. Pair of Candlesticks. Prince, Lewis, Norritonville. Scissors Rambo, Mrs. Wallace, Oaks. Candlestick, originally owned by Mrs. Lane; 125 years old. Reid, Mrs. Dr. John K., Conshohocken. Bellows, 75 years old, Warming Pan. Roberts, Lloyd, Norristown. Clothes Brush, 150 years old. Roberts, Septimus, Whitpain. Warming Pan, very old. Tobacoo Box of pumpkin, 75 years old or more. Two copper Candlesticks, very old. Rogers, Mrs., Norristown. Two Candlesticks. Shovel and Tongs. Rotzell, Mrs., Norristown. Snuffers. 100 years old Schaefer, Miss, Norristown. Snuffer and Snuffer Box. Brass Candlestick. Iron Candlestick. Steel and Flint. Hearth Brush. Pair of Bellows. Scheetz, Mrs. Frank, Flourtown. Pair at Bellows, 1791. Searfoss, Mrs., Jenkintown. Sweeping Brush, old. Shaw, C.H., Jeffersonville. Tinder box. Shay, Mrs. Edward, Three Tuns. Spinning Wheel. 100 years old. Shoemaker, Robert, Shoemakertown. Warming Pan, 1780. Shoffner, Misses, Norristown. Two brass Candlesticks, 50 years old. Shultz, John, Norristown. Basket, 80 years old Slicher, Mrs., Norristown. Two brass Candlesticks, 100 years old. Slingluff, Mrs. William H., Norristown. Bellows and Brush, 50 years old. Spinning Wheel and Reel. Smith, Alfred, Spring House. Spinning wheel. Spencer, Mrs. Ella, Jenkintown. Brass Candlestick. Springer Brothers, Kulpsville. Two Candlesticks. Styer, Aaron, Blue Bell. Two Warming Pans. Summers, Aaron. H., East Greenville. Flax Hackle, dated 1776. Teas, George S., Horsham. Warming Pan, over 100 years old. Traut, Louis, Jenkintown. Flax Hatchel, bearing date of 1765. Brass Snuffers, 160 years old. Walker, E. H., Jarrettown. Flax Hackle. Walton, Harry C., Blue Bell. Glass Candlestick. Weilkle Mrs., Jacob, Collegeville. Old iron lamp. Williams, Mrs., Fitzwatertown. Two Spinning Wheels. Yeakle, S. Y., Norristown. Tape Machine, 125 years old. Young, Miss Annie, Lower Merion. Brass Candlestick, brought from Wales and presented to Ariadne Young one hundred and twenty-five years ago. Zimmerman, Ester, Norristown. Spinning wheel, with the Twist of Flax. Swift and Reel, over 100 years old. Hackle, Tow, and Twist of Flax. The Hackle came over in the ship with William Penn's surveyors. Zimmerman, Mrs. Lorenzo, Norristown. Sweeping Brush, over 50 years old. Zimmerman, Sylvester. Blue Bell. Wool Hackle, brought to this country by Benjamin Eastburn, a surveyor in William Penn's party, at the time of the Settlement of Philadelphia. Said Benjamin Eastburn was the exhibitor's great-great-grandfather. The Hackle has been passed from one generation to another, until it reached the exhibitor from the hands of her mother in the year 1842.