Show The Pennsylvania Dutch Have Accomplished Great Things for the United Every Person Should Add the Following to Their Historical The Pennsylvania Germans have been a industrious and unassuming who have spent their time and energy in doing things rather than in blowing their trumpets about It will doubtless be a surprise to many to learn the following facts which are gleaned from- The Pennsylvania-German of first kitchen-gardens in America were in Pennsylvania planted by her German richest agricultural county in the United States is Lancaster in chiefly inhabited by descendants of best tilled farms and the finest farm all over the are owned and managed by Pennsylvania I first water-works in this were built in 1754 in the German Moravian town of Beth- i The same town had the first Gait's Life ot published in mentions the town of Lancaster as a which in was for its wealth and had the reputation of possessing the best and most intelligent society It was chiefly inhabited by of all people in the practice of carry along with them the greatest stock of knowledge and first paper-mill was erected in 1690 by and his was the first mathematician and astronomer of note in first oil paintings and botanical gardens in America were made by Witt at the two largest telescopes in the that in California was erected by James Lick of and that in Chi cago by T. Yerkes of in Gross in Pepper in Cramp in ship-building and Wanamaker in all Pennsylvania have reached the highest first original scientific work in America was written by who wrote fluently in eight Christopher published his German the first in America in a European He was also the earliest type-founder in Martyr's the most extensive literary production of the was printed at in began his the first religious magazine in Peter a Penn- sylvania translated the Declaration of Independence into seven languages for the Continental He was believed to be the only American then living who could do the more books had been printed by the Pennsylvania I Germans than al New England The first young ladies' nary m the United States l' w by the Bethlehem in teachers were ft in Pennsylvania hi grade schools among the pamphlet published in says the Germans have and meeting houses almS Jt every township through the i and have more 1 cent churches and other pl s of worship in the city of Phi delphia itself than those other persuasions added 1 first Abolitionist sow in America was among PennS vania first force to r Washington at Boston in IS was a company of Germans from York the first soldiers to n President Lincoln at Wash ton in 1861 were five of Pennsylvania In the battle of Long the American army was st Pennsylvania German S t I der Colonel Kich- Clod their ground none company had been the rest of the army its retreat Here completed ra Xan et German for 1 Germans A German of it from speaking speaks of discipline of this German He was at first mistaken for regiment and not when the mistake 4 discovered it was attacked tig vigor and almost Germans to the of over served in war for They saved l i second day at 11 held the place of honor and prat the Siege of Peters- George Washington was first id er of his in almanac printed at i in Tie first president of Con- Frederick j b a Pennsylvania Sydney Fisher was the only one of all where modern was at all prominent or with anything like ardor 1 i was John Peter a Pennsylvania i throwing off his clerical the revealed his ry uniform and enlisted r of his hearers in a f of which he became com- At the end of the war as major general and He was a of three successive and speaker of the V of Michael a was in Pro- Continental and U. S. I Per cent of the I 20 per cent of V ames of state and er cent of those of state have been of Penn- p German f. i would fail me to tell of 1 Gallatin h Bay ard Jeremiah S. the Camerons and a multitude of who have made Pennsylvania German blood tell in the high places of the Let us not think and speak of our ancestry in the spirit of pride and but let us receive with gratitude the glorious heritage they have brought Profited by their let us emulate their and consecrate and improve the good accumulated in the German race through the to the of the human race and the establishment of the kingdom of God on |