History of the Descendants of J. Conrad Geil: ... and a Complete Genealogical Family Register and Biographies of Many of Their Descendants, from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time; Dates in Three Centuries ...Author, 1914 - 275 pages |
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Page 10 - Penn's liberal views, and the illiberal course of the government of New York toward the Germans, induced many to come to this Province.
Page 8 - ... and their adherents, the Christian and the infidel, the millionaire and the pauper; all of whom are more or less miscellaneously mixed up in this world's business matters, and many of whom...
Page 10 - This Province has been for some years the asylum of the distressed Protestants of the Palatinate, and other parts of Germany; and, I believe, it may truthfully be said, that the present flourishing condition of it is in a great measure owing to the industry of those people; it is not altogether the fertility of the soi1, but the number and industry of the people, that makes a country flourish.
Page 10 - These humble people had no opportunity to get such luxuries, neither did they want them. The men were engaged in clearing the forest and tilling their small fields, while the women found employment, not only in their household duties, -but in operating the hemp and flax break, the spinning wheel and the loom that produced the linsey and tow linen which clothed the young men and maidens when they appeared at the marriage altar. Their plain, healthful diet, in a changeable way, was Mush and milk for...
Page 221 - June 18, 1899. 3. Paul F. Burkholder, b. June 6, 1901. 4. Esther R. Burkholder, b. June 13, 1903. 5. Eva M. Burkholder, b. Aug. 12, 1905. 6. Ruth L. Burkholder, b. Sept. 22, 1907. 7. Herman L. Burkholder, b. Aug. 31, 1909. 8. Irene Burkholder, b.
Page 90 - He was endowed with meekness and humility, without which, Christianity is not complete. He was much interested in church work and the salvation of his children.
Page 27 - Merl Wenger, b. May 25, 1902. 3. Lester Rhodes Wenger, b. Sept. 26, 1904. 4. Rita Pearl Wenger, b. Nov. 23, 1908.