History of Doylestown, old and new - from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 (1904) (14595422300)

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Title: History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910

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Publisher: Doylestown, Pa. : Intelligencer Print

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ing, of that year, George Lear, Esq., lecturedbefore it on the subject; Which is the most dangerous to humanconduct precipitation or procrastination? On Friday evening, Jan-uary 20th, Colonel Thomas W. Dufiield, of Frankford, Philadelphiacounty, lectured at Doylestown but the subject has not come downto us. Colonel Dufifield was a man of some considerable note in thesocial and political life of that period. We now come to the era of picnics, a social function that affordedall who participated, and not unfrequently the lookers on, a deal ofpleasure and amusement. They became the fashion in the earlyforties, and, by the middle of the decade had developed into affairs ofsocial importance. If anything, Doylestown took the lead. Thelate John J. Brock was one of the leading spirits, probably the fore-most, and no event gave more solid enjoyment to the young. Onewas held at Doylestown every year for several years. That of July4, 1845, in Harveys grove, the general place for holding them, was

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SAMUEL F. Dubois. DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. i6i a noted affair. Two hundred of both sexes were present; tables werespread with elegant reheshments; during the afternoon there wasdancing in the grove, and, in the Court House in the evening, theDoylestown brass band furnishing the music. The picnic held in Harveys grove, August 6, 1847, the reporterof the Bucks County Intelligencer gives an elaborate account of, and,quoting from his report he said the following : The crowd of vehicles came from all points of the compass—dust flying, horses reeking, ribbons fluttering and happy hearts beat-ing. From the shores of the Delaware to those of the Schuylkill, andas far north as the boundary of Penns purchase, fixed by the IndianWalk, the gallantry and beauty of the land came pouring in.From the city, from Norristown, Bethlehem and every village alongthe Delaware, and town and borough of midland Bucks, there weredelegates fair as the Causcasian mountains ever submitted to thepolished mirrors f

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