The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-06
TODAY IN HISTORY
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1910.



II was on October 6. 1888 that the first
Smigromts from Germany reached Amer
ica; This little colony was from Gre
,T,G. n,,I;he on The lower Rhine thirtyr,hree In
nists were in Rotterdam on the 18th OF
jung. reached London In time TO embark
ON July "a, and after "A rather long. but
not unpleasant voyage. they reached Phil
adelpha. October S.
During the seventeenth century social
CONDITIONS In Germany were frightful. a
peculiar sect, closely akin to the Quak-
ers IN EnSland. was the object of bitter
persecution. William Penn visited Ger
many and stirred up the religious people
to such sympathy with his views that
faStorlus, himself. son OF a Judge. and
OF nigh education. gathered colony OF
nI1,ennonites. weayers from Crefeld on the
Philadelphia, settled north OF the city,
and established Germantown.
William Penn wrote OF Pestorius that
he was sober. upright, wise and pioua-
man everywhere esteemed and of un-
spotted name" On October l2 Pastor
Jus received warrant for 500 acres OF
Dutch purchasers" and on The twenty
fourth they began laying out the town
As were the others. Pastoriuss s first res
'dence was little more than a mere dug
out.
The German colonists brought 10 their
nc" home. however the textile arts or
were by trade weavers. The face OF the
place for its manufacture OF linen was
soon established and the poem by
Richard Frame. 1892, describes;
The German Town Of which I spoke
Which is at least in length one mile or
more.
Where lives High Germany people and
Whose trade in weaving linen cloth is
much.
They grow the fax, as also you may
know
That from the same they do divide the
tow"
In letter, dated August s. 1855, ad-
dressed to Penn in England. Robert Tur-
ncr speaks particularly Of this industry.
THE manufacture Of Linnen by the Ger
mans" he says, goes on finely, and they
make a fine Linnen- Samuel Carpenter,
they gathered n crop of hax. and had
up we'll
And in. his. description of Pennsylvania.
1895. Gabriel Thomas says: IAN sorts
of the very good paper are made in the
Germantown; as also very fine linen,
such nSh =, as as no perso.n! Of quality needs be
The German settlement grew steadily
in the years following its location New
settlers came each year from Crefcld,
various other points. Early in the
eighteenth century the colony had grown
TO very large proportions, and the set
tiers began striking out in various parts
were represented in the north, south and
west. Germantown was Incorporated as
a town in charter granted by Penn
and dated August 6, 1859.
The English were. for time. alarmed
at the influx of such numbers of "A for
eign people, but they were not long in
discovering that these Germans were an
industrious, pcace-loving people. fairly
and while wholly ostentatious.
as sincerely religious as the Puritans or
the Quakers,
Today Is the birthday Of William Long
street Georgia inventor n159): Louis
bers. Iowa statesman uTSo); Louise Ade-
laide dc Conde OF France GT5O, Will
liam Burroughs, the naval officer who
commanded the Enterprise In Its fight
with the Boxer G7S5) William r. Brad
bury, hymn writer GS16): Albert IIark
ness. author Of text books 0S22)
George II Boxer. author and poet 1S23),
and Jenny Lind the singer Gs2o). To-
day is the date OF the death Of Charles.