Much of the book is devoted to the history of the buildings and houses. Frequently, owners and builders are mention along with names of wives and children and various dates. There are 146 pages. Though they cannot be regarded as of an historical character, yet they are founded on fact. Chapters in this work provide easy enjoyable reading.
Genealogical facts are few and far between, yet they are there.
3- History of Montgomery County within the Schuylkill Valley by William J. Buck, published 1859. William F. DeLong . No one is more universally asteemed in this county than he whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He is agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at Rockdale, where he is also the owner of the Rockdale Hotel and Postmaster of the place. Notwithstanding the prominent position which he holds among the citizens of his township, he is one of the most unostentatious of men, and is very popular, justly meriting the high esteem in which he is held.