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Historical 50Ciety Montgomery County Pennsylvania J^Orr/Stown BULLETIN HISTORICAL 50CIETY MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA J^ORR/STOWN COjJ ^1784-f:: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AT \TS BUILDING 165f DEKALB STREET NORRI5TOWN.PA. APRIL, 1956 VOL. X NUMBER 2 IL PRICE ONE DOLLAR Historical Society of Montgomery County OFFICERS David E. Groshens, Esq., President George K. Brecht, Esq., Vice-President Foster C. Hillegass, Vice-President Hon. Alfred L. Taxis, Vice-President Eva G. Davis, Recording Secreta/ry Mrs. H. Donald Moll, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. LeRoy Burris, Financial Secretary and Librarian Lyman a. Kratz, Treasurer TRUSTEES Kirke Bryan, Esq. Harry L. Christman Mrs. H. H. Francinb Donald A. Gallager, Esq. Herbert H. Ganser David E. Groshens, Esq. Kenneth H. Hallman George M. Harding Nancy P. Highley Foster C. Hillegass Arthur H. Jenkins Mrs. a. Conrad Jones Hon. Harold G. Knight Lyman A. Kratz Mrs. Franklin B. Wildman, Jr. Norris D. Weight THE NEW BUILDING OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY 1654 DeKalb Street, Norristown, Pa. 1881 Diamond Jubilee 1956 THE BULLETIN of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Published Semi-Annually — October and April Volume X April, 1956 Number 2 CONTENTS Conserving the Past Dr. H. M, J. Klein 63, Our Place Among Historical Societies Donald A. Gallager, Esq. 69 Reminiscences Mrs. A. Conrad Jones 72 First Minutes of The Historical Society of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 74 The Andrew Morgan Tannery Joseph Shrawder 77 Deaths in the Skippack Region (Compiled) 94 Providence (Reprinted) F. G. Hobson, Esq. 108 Reports 1^0 Committees PUBLICATION committee Mrs. IjjRoy Burris Mrs. H. Donald Moll Charles R. Barker, Chairman 61 Conserving the Past Dr. H. M. J. Klein* I feel it a very great honor to have been invited to speak to you on this occasion. The Historical Society of Montgomery County exists for the purpose of conserving for the present and future generations those personalities, deeds, traditions and memories which have been most worthy of the long and honorable history of the area included in your jurisdiction. Any organization whose function is to conserve what is worth while, either in nature or in human nature, plays an important role in our 20th century life, in which the work of destruction often seems to loom larger than the work of conservation. In the past 50 years we seem to have discovered or in vented new means of greater destructive power than the world has hitherto known. It is refreshing to find that there are still societies in existence whose aim is to keep or protect things from loss or decay rather than to destroy them ruth lessly. One of the chief aims of an historical society, as I understand it, is the conservation of the past. What claim does the past have upon us? It has a right to our respect. A worthy regard for the past is a splendid trait in any man or in any community. It is folly to imagine that wis dom was born with us and will die with us, or that there was little worth our attention in the lives of our predecessors, or to forget that in times long ago there toiled the discoverers of nearly everything we enjoy today. Surely they who built the lower stories of the vast temple of human achievement are as worthy of praise as they who raised it to loftier heights. A self-respecting community will not be indifferent to the value of the lives, labors and sacrifices of the countless multi tude of men and women who have made their little contribution ^Address at the 75th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Mont gomery County, delivered in Norristown, Pa., on February 22, ,1956. 63 04 BULLETIN OP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY to the life of the community and then'passed on. They founded the cities and established the arts, tilled the fields and founded the institutions, made laws and planted churches. Their lives and works live today in the very fiber and quality of our mind and heart, in,our taste and tendency, and in everything that goes to make the life and character of a community. Sound progress is ever respectful of all that is finest and best in the past. It regards highly every jot of true substance and will permit nothing of real value to pass away. It will conserve the past as well as respect it. How can this conservation of the past be effected? First, by creating an historic spirit in the people, which will give them a real interest in the past history of their own community and give them a desire to save from oblivion much of the past life of a community which has real value, and to bring to light much that would otherwise lapse out of sight. That is the first important function of a local historical society. It means a great deal if a body of loyal men and women bind themselves together in the determination that the customs and traditions, the deeds and achievements of those whose descendants they are shall not be lost. What a splendid work an historical society can accom plish in the way of conserving the past of a community, by recalling to the minds of its citizens the fascinating things of local histot'y! In a county like Montgomery almost every foot of ground is a nucleus for historic interest. There is hardly an old attic that does not have a storage of local history. It is astonishing, too, what a storehouse is the memory of a person whose youth goes far back in our national life. My own mother was born in the days of Andrew Jackson, and her parents were young in the days of George Washington. Here, in the lives of two people, we span the entire history of the United States as a nation. It is a mistake for a community to let too many of these men and women carry their records of deeds done and events seen into the great beyond. Local history is the key to all history. The growth of in- CONSERVING THE PAST 65 terest in local history all over the United States has been rapid within the past twenty-five years. This is a sign of growing maturity among our people. In a community like this you can take a house, a street, a bit of land, a river, an Indian Treaty, a canal, or a furnace as a nucleus. You can read old books and newspapers, examine old maps and plans and pictures, talk with old residents, and before long your facts will form layer upon layer around your center. As you compare and analyze, and allow your imagin ation to flow over house and land, road or church, river or treaty, it soon crystallizes into a shapely, lasting concretion of local history. Whatever the nucleus is, the thing grows rap idly. One incident leads to another—fascinating facts peep from every side. We soon learn something about the earlier people wholivedthere — about the Indians whohunted, or the soldiers who tramped over it all — about the opening of roads — about family traditions. So the story of your own house and lot soon enlarges and links itself into the history of your town and county, and trails off down the river to the widest horizon of history at large. So does the individual become one with the whole of society — and so does local history, with all its charming asso ciations, link itself with all those who dreamed and worked in other days. Thus your Society performs this function of keeping alive the historic spirit in the community by preserving and record ing facts that seem worthy of becoming recorded history. There is a local history club in central New York that makes it obligatory that no one shall be a member who does not con tribute at least once a year a statement of facts that seem worthy of becoming a part of the recorded history of the com munity. These facts are filed with great care and form an accumulation of material that "will be of great value to some future historian of that section of the State. This local historic interest can be further developed by papers read, addresses heard, publications issued, and books published on the past life of the people of the community. g0 BULLETIN OP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY Pageantry Another way of creating the historic spirit in the life of a community is by means of the pageant. The historic pageant has done wonders for local history. This ancient method of presenting history in dramatic form and in artistic, pictur esque fashion, brings immediate and permanent, results, espe cially if parts are taken by the very descendants of the men and women whose characters they portray. Markers Another way in which historical societies are conserving the past is by marking with tablets those places that have particular historic interest and value. More recently this mat ter of locating and marking historic sites has been taken up in systematic fashion within the borders of the Commonwealth by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This is conservation of the highest kind, in which the local Societies play an important role, for the Commission has power not only to mark historic spots but to preserve historic buildings from destruction. We Americans need to leam that to waste historic material is as great a crime as to waste natural resources. Consider the important question of historic documents. The value of written records as historic sources is recognized by every historian. No records, no history. These documents are the traces which have been left by the thoughts and actions of the men and women of former times.
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