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The Description of the Borough of Reading <!– By Major William Stahle Reading: Published By The Author 1841. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, By Major William Stahle, In the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Knabb & Boyer Printers –> Source: William … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter IX. Education. Reading Academy—Female Seminary—Private, Infant and Free Schools—Sunday Schools The people of Reading are doing much more for the education of youth at the present than any former period. There seems to be a determination to place the all-important cause of education on a footing worthy … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter X. Societies, Charitable and Literary—Libraries. It has been justly observed, that Reading is distinguished for the number of its societies, and the facility with which a society, for any purpose, may be started. An incredible number of associations have at one time or another had an existence, … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter XI. Government of the Borough of Reading—Fire Companies—Military Officers and Companies Reading was erected into a borough, by an act of the General Assembly passed September 12, 1783. The original act of incorporation was repealed on the twenty-ninth of March 1813, and the present act passed. The … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter XII. Miscellaneous Matters—Conclusion Having travelled through the course marked out for myself in the plan of the book, I find a little bundle of forlorn items upon my hands, which, though not entirely deficient in interest, failed of securing for themselves a lodgment by the way; and … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter I. Location and First Settlement. — General Description. — Wards. — Extent of Town. Reading, is beautifully situated on the eastern side of the river Schuylkill, in 40° 20′ N. Latitude, and Lon. 1° 03′ E. from the city of Washington. Its distance from Philadelphia is fifty-two … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter II. The Census of Reading, taken at Different times since its first settlement, together with a List of Houses, number of Taxable Citizens, &c. The first census of Reading of which we have any account, is the one mentioned in the preceding chapter, for the year 1751, … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter III. – A list of the Churches in Reading, showing their location, Dimensions, Dates of their erection, Pastors, &c. The first house of public worship in Reading was probably that erected by the Friends. It was a log house, built in 1750, (about one year after the … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter IV. Courts.—Judges.—Attorneys.—County Officers.—Justices of the Peace.—Surveyors.—List of Sheriffs.—Physicians. The subject of the Courts does not come strictly within the scope of a treatise upon the statistics of Reading. I will therefore merely mention that the courts of Quarter Sessions, Orphans’ Court, and Common Pleas, are held four … Read more

The Description of Reading by William Stahle Chapter V. Merchants and Traders—Mechanics—Business Cards, &c. The persons engaged in trade, like those in the learned professions, are pretty numerous. They may be classed as follows, in reference to the nature of their business. 5 Dry Goods stores, wholesale and retail. 9 Dry Goods, Grocery and Queensware … Read more