(Photo by Richard F. Hope)

Detwiller House (52-54 Centre Square, now Dunkin’ Donuts and apartments; previously also included 2 and 4 N. Third Street.1)

The current 3½ story Victorian building with its distinctive tower occupies Lot No.140, as designated by William Parsons when he founded Easton in 1752.2 That lot ran along North 3rd Street from Church Alley to the NW corner with Centre Square, and included 40’ of frontage along Centre Square itself.3

According to recitals in a recorded mortgage, Northampton County Sheriff John Jennings seized the property in 1770 for nonpayment of debt from whoever was occupying it at the time. [This occupation was technically illegal, because no purchase from the Penn Family, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth’s royal proprietors, had been recorded for this property.] The Sheriff sold the property to Melchior Hay. On 19 November of the following year (1771), Hay sold it to John Spering, who on the following day mortgaged it to Peter Ealer (also spelled Eahler) to secure the repayment of a £40 loan (presumably used to buy the property). [This is the mortgage that was recorded – the sale deeds were not.] At that time, the property included a house, in which “one Iron Pipe Stove” had been installed.4

1 George W. West, West’s Guide to Easton [Etc.] 159 (West & Everett, Job Printers 1883). 2 Compare A.D. Chidsey, Jr., The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware Plan of

Easton, Map 2 (Vol. II of Publications of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society 1937) with Northampton County Tax Records Map, www.ncpub.org.

3 See Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to Henry Spering, H2 279 (27 Sept. 1791).

4 Mortgage, John Spering to Peter Ealer, B1 360 (20 Nov. 1771); accord, A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 234-35, 258 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.51, sale by Melchior Hay to John Spering

The property rights also included rights to use the “draw Water Well dug, erected and built in Pomfret Street . . . opposite the dwelling House now in the Occupation Or Possession of Christopher Bittenbender on the East side of the said street.”5 Bittenbender’s house was located where the parking lot at 53 North 3rd Street stands today (former site of the Hon. James Madison Porter residence).6

Easton tax rolls for 1772 show John Spering being taxed £1 as a shoemaker, and taxed an additional £1 10 shillings “for the house he lives in”.7 In 1775, John Spering became the weekly post-rider to Philadelphia (fortnightly in the wintertime).8 His various efforts were apparently a financial success, because his mortgage was endorsed in March 1777 as having been paid off.9 However, in 1778 (in the midst of the American Revolution), John Spering (Sr.) abandoned his wife and four children to restore his allegiance to his King, and sailed for England. His property was confiscated by the Revolutionary government, destroying the family’s financial security. Thereafter, his two daughters were indentured as servants to families with solid Revolutionary credentials: one to Andrew Kichlein (son of Colonel Peter Kichlein who commanded the “Flying Camp” regiment that fought in the Continental Army at the Battle of Brooklyn), and the other to Jacob Arndt (brother of Captain John Arndt, from Col. Kichlein’s regiment).10 John Spring’s boys also developed good credentials with the new Revolutionary government. Spering’s older son (John Jr.) saw active service during the Revolution in the “Continental Line” – the core of General Washington’s Continental Army – and served during major battles including Brandywine and Monmouth.11 The younger son, Henry, may also have served in the army during the Revolution – at least according to family history later in Henry’s life.12 He certainly saw service in the Pennsylvania militia shortly after that War, as a volunteer private (substituting for another person),13 rising in subsequent years to a rank of captain.14 Based in part on John’s Revolutionary War service, Henry Spering succeeded in obtaining an Act from the Pennsylvania General Assembly dated 22 November 1782 restoring his family’s “Wooden House” and property to the four Spering children.15

Henry Spering’s quarter share in the family homestead was apparently not valued highly enough in the late 1780s to warrant any additional taxes, although Henry was taxed 4 shillings and a penny in 1785 apparently for his ownership of a cow,16 and 4 shillings and nine pence in 1788 based upon his business as a tailor.17 Henry subsequently acquired his siblings’ shares to become the property’s sold owner,18 and obtained a formal deed from the Penn Family in 1791.19 In the 1798 federal “Window Tax” assessment, he was recorded as owning in Easton Borough a single-story wood frame house 22’ X 28’ in size, with a wood frame stable 18’ X 22’, together worth $700.20

dated 19 November 1771). 5 Mortgage, John Spering to Peter Ealer, B1 360 (20 Nov. 1771). 6 A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 234-35, 258 (Vol. III of the Publications of The

Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.57, original town Lot No.64); www.WalkingEaston.com entry for

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Henry Spering’s rising fortunes were created by using his political skills to achieve a succession of public offices. This political career may have had a rocky beginning, because in 1790 Henry Spering was the subject of an assault and battery by Easton’s first physician, Dr. Andrew Ledlie. The Doctor was fined 5 shillings in the local County Court, but upon the recommendation of four local Justices of the Peace, his fine was remitted by the Provincial Council in Philadelphia.21 However, the Doctor was generally unpopular in Easton,22 and in a contemporaneous case had similarly been fined for assault and battery when he shot and wounded the Northampton County Sheriff.23 Such an altercation evidently did Spering’s political reputation no harm. In 1793, Henry Spering was appointed Easton’s first Postmaster for four years. He became Northampton County Sheriff from 1797 until 1800.24 He then served as County Prothonotary (from 1800 until 1821). At various times he was Northampton County’s Recorder, Register, and Clerk of Sessions.25 He served as Chief Burgess of Easton in 1804-05 and again in 1806;26 and finally became a Brigadier General of militia during the War of 1812.27 General Henry Spering died on 6 January 1823 at age 67. His burial in the Lutheran burial ground [at 4th and Ferry Streets] was “attended by an unusual large train of friends, and the three volunteer companies of Easton, accompanied with solemn music, performed by the bans attached to the ‘Easton Artillerists’ & ‘Easton Union Guards,’ and the firing of cannon.”28

In 1802, Henry Spering sold his property at the NW corner of Centre Square, including the “Wooden House”, to Easton lawyer and George Wolf.29 It “probably” became the location of the U.S. Post Office in that year, when Wolf was appointed the fourth Easton Postmaster by President Thomas Jefferson.30 Wolf (1777 – 1840) also served four terms in the U.S. Congress, and was elected the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1829 and 1833,31 sponsoring the legislation requiring “free” (i.e. taxpayer-funded) government schools.32 Later, he was appointed the first Comptroller of the Treasury in 1836 by U.S. President Andrew Jackson, and the Collector for the Port of Philadelphia by President Martin van Buren.33

The present brick building is said to have been begun in 1824 (according to the building’s plaque),34 which was during George Wolf’s ownership period. It was apparently during this period that attorney William Ross had his law practice in the building. Dr. Samuel D. Gross (1805–84),35 “afterward America’s greatest surgeon”, also had his office in the building as a struggling young physician.36 In 1832, Dr. Gross was sent by the Easton Town Council to New York City to determine the treatment for cholera, in case the epidemics raging in New York and Philadelphia should spread. His findings – including his (apparently correct) conclusion that cholera was not contagious via human contact -- were published in the newspaper.37 Despite his background on a farm near Easton speaking only Pennsylvania “Dutch”, Dr. Gross went on to become a prominent academic physician, and (among other things) the 20th President of the American Medical Association. A celebrated painting of him entitled “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins was exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A bronze statute of him was dedicated by President William McKinley in the Smithsonian Park, but has now been moved to Thomas Jefferson University in Center City Philadelphia.38 Dr. Gross “was the first to give systematic course lectures on the topic of anatomy, and was the first to suggest and practice suturing divided nerves and tendons, and treating certain dislocations by wiring up the ends of the bones.”39

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George Wolf died on the morning of 11 March 1840, while walking from his boarding house to the Custom House. Although he began the walk in apparent good health, he fell as he reached the Custom House door, and died a few moments thereafter.40 He did not leave a will. The Center Square property was appraised at $5,500 and given to heir Horace E. Wolf two years later.

Horace Wolf sold the property for $5,550 in 1843 to John Bowes.41 Eleven years later (in 1854), Bowes died and his will was probated in County Orphan’s Court. After two unsuccessful attempts at an auction, the brick building and front 80 feet of the property were sold for $9,725 – a substantial increase over Bowes’s purchase price, which may indicate that improvements had been made to the building. At that time, the building was described as a “three story Brick house, with brick Kitchen and frame Shop . . . and a frame office in the rear”. The buyer was Dr. Henry Detwiller.42

Dr. Detwiller’s original family name had been spelled ”Dätwyler” in Germany in 1608,43 and is also spelled Detweiler and Detwiler in various records.44 Dr. Henry Detwiller (1795 – 1887) was born in the Canton of Basel, Switzerland. After obtaining a university medical education at the University of Freiburg (but not yet a degree, because he was underage),45 he dreamed of the impending death of his father, and left school hurriedly without travel papers. He was arrested and fined for traveling without the proper passport. Although he succeeded in arriving home just in time before his father’s death, the experience interested him in the freedom of America.46

In 1817, Dr. Detwiller left Europe and sailed to America on a four-year trip to collect “geological, mineralogical and botanical specimens”.47 While on the trip to America, young Detwiller became unofficial physician for his fellow travelers up the Rhine River, and in Amsterdam the Medical Board appointed him ship’s doctor for the trip to America. He was apparently instrumental in saving many lives during a rough trans-Atlantic crossing.48 A family genealogy states that on this trip he joined Count Vandamme,49 although the ship’s manifest does not list the Count among the cabin passengers.50

Dominique-Joseph René Vandamme, Count of Unseburg (1770 – 1830) was a French General in Napoleon Bonaparte’s armies. He was (among other things) a hero at the Battle of Austerlitz, but was also disciplined for looting and dismissed from several commands for arguing with his commanding officers.51 Called “Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible”,52 he was also noted both for ferocity in battle and severity in governing conquered countries. Napoleon said of Vandamme: “If I were to lose Vandamme I know not what I would give to have him back again; but if I had two such generals I should be obliged to shoot one of them.”53 After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Bourbons exiled him from France.54 After attempting unsuccessfully to remain in Europe, he was forced to flee to America (and specifically the Philadelphia area). He apparently arrived there in the Spring of 1816, however, a year before Dr. Detwiller’s trip.55 In 1819, he reconciled with the Royalists, was restored to his rank as a Count, and returned to France.56

The idea that Dr. Detwiller accompanied General Vandamme may have originated with Condit’s History of Easton, Penn’a, which states that it was Dr. Detwiller’s skill and

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Count Vandamme’s private stock of drugs that saved lives aboard the John.57 The Count’s drugs were probably traveling as baggage to America; it is known that Vandamme was receiving mail from Europe in 1817, and by the following year he received mail and packages from Europe “on a regular basis”.58 Other sketches suggest that once in Philadelphia, Doctor Detwiller was put in charge of a group of sick immigrants, and in the course of that duty met Dr. Munges, a French physician. Dr. Munges introduced Detwiller to other Bonapartist French refugees, including Count Vandamme and Joseph Bonaparte (the former Emperor’s brother), who advised Detwiller to lengthen his stay in America and go into the practice of medicine.59 He became the assistant to Dr. Charles W. Martin in Allentown for 7 months, beginning in the autumn of 1817.60 During the following winter, Dr. Detwiller established his medical reputation when he identified the cause of a outbreak of “bilious colic” (also called “verstopfung” by German-speaking patients) as lead poisoning from earthen pots used to store apple butter.61 In the spring of 1818, he moved to set up his own practice in Hellertown.62 Dr. Detwiller was the first physician to dispense homeopathic medicine in Pennsylvania, beginning in 1828.63

Dr. Detwiller’s wife died in 1835,64 after which he went back to visit Europe. While there, he met Dr. Hahnemann (the founder of homeopathy) in Paris,65 and formally obtained his University degree from Freiburg (also spelled Freyburg) in 1836 (now that he was of age – but only after a rigorous oral examination by the faculty!).66 Upon his return to America, Dr. Detwiller resumed his medical practice in Hellertown.67 In 1852 he moved to Easton.68 He purchased the Centre Square property two years later,69 and continued to practice medicine there for another 35 years. At the time of his death in 1887, Dr. Detwiller (then nearly age 9270) was said to “probably” be the oldest practicing homeopathic surgeon in the world.71 He was also interested in the manufacture of pig-iron in the Lehigh Valley, and in blast furnaces and rolling mills of the early Industrial Revolution in the area.72

The old doctor’s son, Dr. John J. Detwiller,73 practiced with his father for 33 years as a surgeon, and continued the medical practice after his father’s death.74 Young Detwiller had been born in Hellertown in 1834, but had attended Vanderveer’s School in Easton. At age 14, he had left to study pharmacy in Philadelphia. After working in that trade, he went on to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1854 (and in later life, would become that school’s oldest living alumnus). By now, his father had taken up residence in Easton, where Dr. John joined him. The younger Detwiller became a noted surgeon, one of the first to use ether in the area, who was asked to perform operations eastwards throughout New Jersey, and westwards to Carlisle and Harrisburg.75 He served in the army during the Civil War.76 In July 1865, he married Annie Thompson, daughter of William H. Thompson,77 operator of the Bushkill mill that later became the principal Binney & Smith [Crayola] factory.78 Unfortunately, she died the following December, at age 21.79 The EASTON ARGUS newspaper lamented:

“the death of this estimable young Lady cast a general feeling of sadness over our town. We believe it was but last June that she stood before the matrimonial altar a beautiful bride – in December following she was a lovely corpse. Truly, ‘God’s ways are not as our ways.’”80

Dr. Detweller married again in 1868.81

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Annie Mary (Thompson) Detwiller, portrait as a girl by Samuel Moon82

Shortly after the elder Dr. Detwiller’s death in 1887, the younger Dr. Detwiller enlarged the Centre Square building, and added the distinctive Romanesque tower.83

Besides his medical practice, the younger Dr. Detwiller became a major force in commercial development in the area. He owned a slate

quarry in Slatington, and was one of the founders of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company (of Allentown).84 In addition, he became the leader of the investors who saved the financially troubled Abel Opera House in 187885 – his son, William, became the theater manager.86 He also built many residences in Easton and Phillipsburg.87 He was “well-known in Easton for buying buildings and renovating them into Apartment Buildings.”88 Dr. John J. Detwiller was generally known for being the “courageous, cheerful, useful spirit which for almost eighty-two years has participated in the foremost activities of this Valley.”89 He continued to use the building as his home and doctor’s office until his death in 1916.90 Ownership of the property was then passed to Dr. John’s children, under their grandfather Henry Detweiler’s will.91

In September 1917, $90,000 was offered for the property by the Aeolian Company of New York, which wanted to erect an 8-story building on that corner to serve as a “distribution house” for its Pennsylvania business. When the offer was not accepted, the company went to Lancaster instead. Local interests offered to lease the property for $7,500 a year, while a “Scranton concern” offered a $6,500 lease. Instead, the property was offered in November at an auction, when the winning bid was only $75,000, made by brothers Dr. Albert K. Detwiller and John K. Detwiller. The brothers claimed that the price difference was due to “depreciation of real estate on account of war conditions”.92 Despite this reduced price, after making a $3,700 down payment the brothers “intentionally defaulted” on their bid at closing in January, causing threats of litigation

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from the other heirs.93 Appraisers continued to value the property at $90,000 nonetheless.94 In February, a new sale of the property brought a bid for only $40,000 from James B. O’Hay;95 the proprietor of Hay’s Restaurant next door at 50 Centre Square.96 Not surprisingly, the O’Hay sale was contested.97 In 1920, the heirs finally succeeded in selling the property for $70,000 to Bernhardt D. Mayer and Horace Mayer.98

o During the 1920s, one of the tenants in the building (at 54 Centre Square) was the Federal System of Bakeries, which became the Federal Baking Co. (manager Frederick A. Meyer) in 1930.99

The Mayer buyers held the property until the Great Depression, when they lost it in a Sheriff’s sale.100 Jacob Mayer, the proprietor of the successful men’s shop at 1 Centre Square,101 repurchased Detwiller House from the Easton National Bank in 1941,102

and held it until 1947.103 A subsequent succession of investment owners continued104 until 1986, when the property was sold to Rachel E. Haddad.105

In 2006, Mrs. Haddad obtained a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise as a prominent tenant in her building,106 causing a “stir” that “ruffled some feathers” with some town residents.107 Among other things, Dunkin’ Donuts agreed to use a canvas awning (instead of vinyl) to preserve Centre Square’s historic character,108 and invested some $400,000 in the property. This development aroused Mrs. Haddad’s interest in refurbishing the rest of the building. In 2006, she obtained a $25,000 no-interest façade loan from The Greater Easton Development Partnership, to repaint the upper floors, replace windows, and repaint windows on the first-floor business spaces in the rear of the building.109

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40 Henry F. Marx, II Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1799 – 1851 Newspaper Extracts 462 (Easton Public Library 1929).

41 Deed, Horace E. (Sabrina G.) Wolf to John Bowes, E8 126 (29 Dec. 1843)(sale price $5,550). The rear portion of the property was acquired by Jesse B. Shipman. The two parcels were divided by a small one-story alley. Dr. Detwiller was given the right in his deed to built over to Shipman’s wall at the second-story level, but not to close up the alley. Deed, Mary Bowes, et al., Executors of the Will of John Bowes, to Doctor Henry Detwiller, B9 341 (19 Dec. 1854).

42 Deed, Mary Bowes, et al., Executors of the Will of John Bowes, to Doctor Henry Detwiller, B9 341 (19 Dec. 1854).

43 John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 63 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902)(states died in 1833). Eyerman otherwise uses “Detwiller” throughout; other spellings are used in other authorities. The name “Detweiler” is a fairly common German name today.

44 For example, he is listed as Henry Detweiler in Don Yoder (ed.), “Lehigh County Naturalization Records”, in the Pennsylvania Dutchman, Vol.2:22, p.6 (Jan. 1950), available in Michael Tepper (ed.), II New World Immigrants 237 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1979). However, that entry indicates that he signed his name “Henry Detwiller” in his Declaration of Intention to immigrate to America dated 8 May 1818.

45 Peter Fritts, History of Northampton County 267 (1877, reprint by Higginson Book Company); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 439-40 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 64 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902); Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 40 (Hillburn & West 1879).

An extensive biography of Dr. Detweiler is given, in German, in Hans Fichter, Dr. med Menry Detwiller von Langenbruck in Easton Pa USA Der Onkel in Amerika (Basler Jahrbuch 1932)(copy in Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library).

46 Charles A. Waltman (coordinator), Health Services, Vol. IX Two Hundred Years of Life in Northampton County, PA. 38-44, at 41 (Northampton County Bicentennial Commission 1976); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

47 Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 40-41 (Hillburn & West 1879); John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 64 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

48 Peter Fritts, History of Northampton County 267 (1877, reprint by Higginson Book Company); Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 41 (Hillburn & West 1879); see also, Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a, supra at 440.

49 John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 64 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902).

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50 Import Manifest of the ship “John” of Baltimore, arrived in Philadelphia 25 July 1817 from Amsterdam, Netherlands, from Ancestry.com, Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800 – 1945 Microfilm Roll No. M425-24 (online database, Provo, UT: Ancestry-com Operations Inc. 2006), also available in Microfilm Publications from National Archives, Washington, D.C.

The Import Manifest does list “Doct Henry ___” among the cabin passengers. 58 John G. Gallaher, Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible General Dominique Vandamme 293-94

(University of Oklahoma Press 2008)(received letters of introduction in November 1817, and in 1818 received mail and packages from Europe “on a regular basis”).

59 Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 42 (Hillburn & West 1879); see also “Biographical Sketches – Dr. Henry Detwiller”, SUNDAY CALL, 16 Aug. 1885, p.4, col.3.

60 Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 42 (Hillburn & West 1879).

61 Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 42 (Hillburn & West 1879).

62 Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 43 (Hillburn & West 1879); accord, John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 64 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902)(practiced in Hellertown beginning in 1818); but see Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889)(suggests he began practicing in Hellertown after returning from Europe in 1836).

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63 Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 44 (Hillburn & West 1879); see Condit, History of Easton, Penn’a, supra; Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra.

64 John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 63 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889).

65 Condit, History of Easton, Penn’a, supra; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 43 (Hillburn & West 1879).

66 Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 43 (Hillburn & West 1879).

67 See Condit, History of Easton, Penn’a, supra.68 Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra at 267; Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History

of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889). A recital in the 1854 deed to Detwiller House confirms that Dr. Detwiller was already an Easton resident at that time. Deed, Mary Bowes, Executrix of the Will of John Bowes, to Henry Detwiller, B9 341 (19 Dec. 1854).

69 Deed, Mary Bowes, Executrix of the Will of John Bowes, to Henry Detwiller, B9 341 (19 Dec. 1854); see Article, “First Families Once Lived Where Business Now Holds Sway at Entrance to Circle”, EASTON EXPRESS, 26 Feb. 1937, p.17 (Dr. Detwiller purchased building in 1854 from the Estate of John Bowes).

See generally Jeremiah H. Lant, The Northampton County Directory for 1873 65 (1873)(H. and J.J. Dewiller [sic], physicians at the NW corner of North 3rd Street and Centre Square); Article, “The New Numbers”, EASTON DAILY FREE PRESS, Fri., 21 Nov. 1873, p.3 (address of 52 Centre Square assigned to the residence of Dr. H. Detweiller).

70 Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889). 71 See John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John

Eyerman 63-64 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902) (includes a portrait facing p.64). See generally Scott Hill, A Self Guided Tour . . . Historic Forks of the Delaware 7 (Eagle Scout Project, 29 Apr. 1992)(Detwiller Building built before 1842); Marie and Frank Summa & Leonard Buscemi Sr., Images of America: Historic Easton 99 (Arcadia Publishing 2000); James Wright & William Weiss, “Dr. Henry Detweiler Pioneer in Homeopathy”, Article dated 20 June 1980 in possession of Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 40-45 (Hillburn & West 1879).

Dr. Henry Detwiller was the great-grandfather of John Eyerman, the business financier at 444-48 Northampton Street. See John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 64-65 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902).

72 Fritts, History of Northampton County, supra.

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73 John Eyerman, Genealogical Studies: The Ancestry of Marguerite and John Eyerman 67 (Eschenbach Printing Company 1902); Obituary, “Dr. John J. Detwiller Passes Away”, EASTON DAILY ARGUS, Mon., 28 Feb. 1916, p.1, cols.3-4 (born in Hellertown, 26 April 1834).

74 Rev. Uzal W. Condit, History of Easton, Penn’a 442a-442 (George P. West 1885 / 1889)(includes portrait).

75 Obituary, “Dr. John J. Detwiller Passes Away”, EASTON DAILY ARGUS, Mon., 28 Feb. 1916, p.1, cols.3-4.

76 His grave in Easton Cemetery has a Grand Army of the Republic marker. Frederich Otto, “Dr. John Jacob Detwiller”, in Easton Cemetery Find A Grave Memorial # 18980765, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Detwiller&GSfn=John&GSiman=1&GScid=44735&GRid=18980765& (accessed 21 May 2011).

Membership in the Grand Army of the Republic was “limited to honorably discharged veterans of the Union Army, Navy, Marine Corps or the Revenue Cutter Service” serving between 12 April 1861 and 9 April 1865. Lydia E. Bruneo, “Grand Army of the Republic”, EASTON IRREGULAR 11 (Heritage Edition Summer 2011).

Listings for John Detwiler (with a single “l”), all privates, were found for Company K of the 26th Pennsylvania Regiment, Company D of the 117th Pennsylvania Regiment (13th Cavalry), and Co. I of the 21st Regiment of Emergency Militia. Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 13, 17 (P. Singerly, State Printer): Vol. I at 379 (1869); Vol. III at 1284 (1870); Vol. V at 1197 (1871).

77 Henry F. Marx (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1852 – 1870 Newspaper Extracts 191 (Easton Area Public Library 1934)(married 25 July 1865 to Dr. John Detweiler); see Record Book of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, Pennsylvania [Marx Room Code “B”) 114 (copied in Easton Public Library May 1936)(married 23 July 1865).

78 See Richard F. Hope and Virginia Lawrence-Hope, Easton PA: The Lower Bushkill Mills 208-11 (Lulu Press 2012), and sources cited therein.

79 Obituary, Annie M. Detweiler, EASTON ARGUS, Thurs., 4 Jan. 1866, p.3, col.3; Obituary, Annie M. Detweiler, EASTON FREE PRESS, Thurs., 4 Jan. 1866, p.3, col.2; Record Book of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, Pennsylvania [Marx Room Code “B”) 186 (copied in Easton Public Library May 1936)(died 28 December 1865 and buried 2 Jan. 1866; born 25 Sept. 1844).

80 Obituary, Annie M. Detweiler, EASTON ARGUS, Thurs., 4 Jan. 1866, p.3, col.3. 81 Henry F. Marx (compiler), I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1852 – 1870

Newspaper Extracts 191 (Easton Area Public Library 1934)(married 4 June 1868 to Arabella Knecht of Shimersville).

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7 William Henry Egle (ed.), XIX Pennsylvania Archives Third Series 7 (Harrisburg: Wm. Stanley Rauy, State Printer 1897).

8 Ethan Allen Weaver, “The Forks of the Delaware” Illustrated xix (Eschenbach Press 1900); accord, A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 258 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.51). According to historian Weaver, Spering’s route went from Philadelphia to Northampton (now known as Allentown), via Bethlehem and Easton, as well as a number of other towns.

Rabbi Trachtenberg cites to an edition of the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE for 29 Oct. 1775, indicating that Easton merchant Myer hart had vouched for John Spering as a post rider. Joshua Trachtenberg, Consider the Years, The Story of the Jewish Community of Easton 1752 – 1942 312 n.15 (Centennial Committee of Temple Brith Sholom 1944).

9 Mortgage, John Spering to Peter Ealer, B1 360 (20 Nov. 1771)(endorsement by Peter Kichlein, “Assinee of the within named Peter Eahler”, acknowledging that he had received “all Due”).

10 A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 259 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.51). See also XIII Pennsylvania Colonial Records 252 (Harrisburg: Theo Penn & Co. 1853)(petition by Henry Spering, tabled 5 April 1782, refers to his father as “an attainted traitor”); Lorenzo Sabine, II Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution 580 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc. 2nd ed. 1864, reprinted 1979, 1994)(John Spering of Easton, Pennsylvania “Attainted of treason, estate vested in his four children”).

Chidsey gives the names of the girls as Jane and Elizabeth. At the time, Jane was over the age of 14, and was “bound out as a servant to Jacob Arndt. The daughter Elizabeth, under fourteen years of age, was bound out to Andrew Kachline.” Chidsey, A Frontier Village, supra at 259.

Elizabeth Spering’s name is confirmed below by her deed selling her share in the family property to her brother, Henry Spering. However, the older sister may have also been called Johanna. The Parish Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton PA (Marx Room Reference “G”) 358, 360 (Easton PA n.d.) show an Elisabeth, the daughter of “Johan Spurring” confirmed into the congregation in 1788, and a Johanna, the daughter of “Johan Spuhren”, confirmed in 1786.

Regarding the history of Jacob Arndt, see, e.g., www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 5 North 3rd Street. Regarding the history of Andrew Kachlein, see Richard F. Hope and Virginia Lawrence-Hope, Easton PA: The Lower Bushkill Mills 46 (Lulu Press 2012), and for his father, Colonel Peter Kichlein, id. at 31-36.

11 Edward Hagaman Hall (ed.), Register of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution 543 (1899, available online on www.ancestery.com)(John Spering, 1846 – 1846, private, 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment of Continental Line, transferred to 2nd Regiment, discharged 1783, “engaged at Germantown and Monmouth”); John Blair Lynn & William H. Egle (eds.), I Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution Battalions and Line 1775 – 1783 414, 437

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(Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, State printer 1880)(John Spearing, private in 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment of Continental Line); Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), II Pennsylvania Archives Fifth Series 889 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1906)(John Spearing, private, 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line); Virgil D. White, IV Index to Revolutionary War Service Records 2554 (Waynesboro (TN): The National Historical Publishing Company 1995)(John Spering service as a private in the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment).

12 See Obituary of Henry Spering, SPIRIT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Fri., 10 Jan. 1823, transcribed in Ethan Allan Weaver, Notes and Biographies of Easton and Eastonians 1802 – 1861 20 (Oct. 1877, with index by Jane Moyer)(Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Notary Public, Prothonotary 1800-21, “soldier of two wars”, 1814 brigade of militia and volunteers). But see Virgil D. White, IV Index to Revolutionary War Service Records 2554 (Waynesboro (TN): The National Historical Publishing Company 1995)(no mention of any Revolutionary War service by Henry Spering).

13 Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), III Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series 823-24 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1907)(Henry Spering, private, enlisted as a substitute for George Ehrit, in Muster Roll of 20 August 1784 in “Wioming Service”, stating that Spering and most of the Regiment had served from 29 July until 25 August). Since the date of service is 25 August and the record itself was dated only 20 August, it might be argued that this month of service must have taken place in the prior year (1783) – but in that case, no one would have been left in the Regiment for it to be in “Wioming Service” in 1784. It thus seems more likely that the record was made to reflect the expected dismissal of the troops five days later.

14 Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), III Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series 835-37 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1907)(militia private under Capt. Jacob Arndt Jr., muster roll dated 9 May 1785); Id. at 864 (Hering Spering a Captain in the 3rd Battalion of Northampton County Militia); Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), V Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series 421, 424 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1907)(Henry Spering, Captain of Light Infantry of 1st Battalion, 3rd Regiment, Militia Brigade of Northampton County).

15 See Deed, John Spering to Henry Spering, C3 296 (26 July 1790)(recital that John Spering Jr. obtained his ¼ interest from the General Assembly on 22 November 1782); A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 259 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.51).

See generally XIII Pennsylvania Colonial Records 252 (Harrisburg: Theo Penn & Co. 1853)(petition by Henry Spering to Provincial Council, tabled 5 April 1782, for himself and the other children of John Spering, “an attainted traitor”, requesting “some relief from this Board, with respect to the forfeited estate of their said father”); Lorenzo Sabine, II Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution 580 (Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc. 2nd ed. 1864, reprinted 1979, 1994)(John Spering of Easton, Pennsylvania “Attainted of treason, estate vested in his four children”);

16 William Henry Egle (ed.), XIX Pennsylvania Archives Third Series 83 (Harrisburg: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer 1897).

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17 William Henry Egle (ed.), XIX Pennsylvania Archives Third Series 292 (Harrisburg: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer 1897).

18 A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 259 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940)(Building No.51).

Recorded deeds commemorate his purchase of property interests from two of his siblings: John Spering (Jr.) and Elizabeth Spring. Elizabeth’s deed was signed with an “X”, which was carefully witnessed. No recorded deed was found from the other sibling. Deed, John Spering to Henry Spering, C3 296 (26 July 1790)(sale price £12 10s.); Deed, Elizabeth Spering to Henry Spering, C3 296 (24 Apr. 1793)(sale price £12 10s.; signed by “her mark X”).

19 Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to Henry Spering, H2 279 (27 Sept. 1791).

20 Federal Tax of 1798 (“Window Tax”), Roll 361, Easton Borough listing (National Archives records, microfilm located in Easton Area Public Library).

21 “Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania”, in XVI Pennsylvania Colonial Records 542 (Harrisburg: Theo. Penn & Co. 1853).

22 The Committee of Observation and Inspection of Northampton County found in 1776, that:

“Nell Hunt otherwise called Nell Marr is a common scold and a common disturber of the peace of the town of Easton and has been so for several years past and that she is aided and abated [sic] in her disorderly proceedings by Dr. Andrew Ladie [sic] who has kept her as housekeeper and whore for many years.”

Robert Traill, Minutes of the Committee of Observation and Inspection of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, quoted in Edward P. Kennedy, Government, Vol. III of Two Hundred Years of Life in Northampton County, PA 29 (Northampton County Bicentennial Commission 1976); accord, Francis S. Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty 49 (Pennsylvania State University Press 2003).

Dr. Ledlie was also suspected of pro-British sympathies, although he did serve as a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. William J. Heller, Historic Easton From the Window of a Trolley-Car 146 (The Express Printing Co., Inc., 1912, reprinted by Genealogical Researchers, 1984).

In addition, the Doctor engendered a serious controversy when he imprisoned a Hessian POW under his control and forced the man to build him a new house on Centre Square – and then charged the Revolutionary Government for the Hessian’s room and board while he did the building. See Francis S. Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty 138-42 (Pennsylvania State University Press 2003); William J. Heller, Historic Easton From the Window of a Trolley-Car 146 (The Express Printing Co., Inc., 1912, reprinted by Genealogical Researchers, 1984).

23 Francis S. Fox, Sweet Land of Liberty 49-50 (Pennsylvania State University Press 2003).

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24 A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 234, 258-59 (Vol. III of the Publications of The Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940). See generally A.D. Chidsey, The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware Map 2, plot 140 (Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society, 1937)(Henry Spering obtained the patent). His father,John Spering, had purchased the property from Melchoir Hay in 1771. Title was restored to John Spering’s children by an Act passed on 22 Nov. 1782. Chidsey, A Frontier Village, supra at 258.

25 See Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 179-80 (George W. West 1885 / 1889); see Leonard S. Buscemi, Sr., The Easton PA Trivia Book 240 (Pinter’s Printers, Inc. 1985)(first Postmaster); Obituary of Henry Spering, SPIRIT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Fri., 10 Jan. 1823, transcribed in Ethan Allan Weaver, Notes and Biographies of Easton and Eastonians 1802 – 1861 20 (Oct. 1877, with index by Jane Moyer)(Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Notary Public, Prothonotary 1800-21, “soldier of two wars”, 1814 brigade of militia and volunteers).

Rev. Condit states that it is “probable, though not absolutely certain”, that Spering did not use this location as his post office, but instead placed it “in the southwestern portion of the Public Square, in a frame building on the lot where the First National Bank is now erected.” Condit, supra. This is the western portion of the lot currently occupied by the Alpha Building. See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 1 South Third Street.

26 Article, “Chief Executives of Easton Since 1789”, EASTON EXPRESS, Sun., 12 June 1937, Jubilee Section A, p.5, cols. 1-2.

27 Obituary of Henry Spering, SPIRIT OF PENNSYLVANIA, Fri., 10 Jan. 1823, transcribed in Ethan Allan Weaver, Notes and Biographies of Easton and Eastonians 1802 – 1861 20 (Oct. 1877, with index by Jane Moyer)(command of a brigade of milita and volunteers in 1814); Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), IV Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series 789, 791-92 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1907)(Henry Spering Brigadier General of 1st Brigade, Militia of Northampton Pike & Lehigh Counties, appointed 4 July 1814); Thomas Lynch Montgomery (ed.), VII Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series 5, 937, 939, 941, 950, 953, 955 (Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer 1907)(showing command as a Brigadier General from 1812).

28 Obituary of Henry Spering, EASTON CENTINEL, Fri., 10 Jan. 1823, transcribed in Ethan Allan Weaver, Notes and Biographies of Easton and Eastonians 1802 – 1861 14-15 (Oct. 1877, with index by Jane Moyer) and in Henry F. Marx, I Marriages and Deaths Northampton County 1799 – 1851 Newspaper Extracts 110 (Easton Public Library 1929)(died in 68th year [= age 67] on “Monday night last” [= 6 January]).

29 Deed, Henry (Mary) Spering to George Wolf, H2 280 (20 Apr. 1802)(sale price £475 for “Wooden House” and original Town Lot No.140 measuring 40’ X 120’ at the NW corner of the Public Square and North Pomfret Street – now called 3rd Street).

30 Peter Fritts, History of Northampton County 166 (F.A. Davis, 1877); Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 180 (George W. West 1885 / 1889). Cf. Ethan Allen Weaver, “The Forks of the Delaware” Illustrated xxvi (Eschenbach Press 1900). See also Reuben

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Kolb, “Easton Nearly 70 Years Ago, Paper Read Before Historical Society”, in Easton Public Library, II The Book Shelf Scrap Book of Easton and Northampton County 43, 47 (Easton Public Library 1936)(article written after 1909, based on internal evidence).

Wolf was appointed Postmaster on 1 April 1802, for a one-year term. (Condit, History of Easton, Penn’a, supra at 180.) The date of the deed is a few days later, on 20 April. (See above). Thus, the matter is not free from doubt.

31 Ken Klabunde, “PostKard Korner: A Governor, An Arch, A School . . . An Athenaeum”, THE IRREGULAR, Jan. 2007, p.2; Bruce P. Frassinelli, “Arch honors former Eastonian”, EASTON EXPRESS, Wednesday, 28 Sept. 1988, p.B2.

32 E.g., Lou (“Mr. Easton”) Ferrone, “Helllooo! George”, in Easton Is Home, Heritage Edition Summer 2005 26; Ken Klabunde, “PostKard Korner: A Governor, An Arch, A School . . . An Athenaeum”, THE IRREGULAR, Jan. 2007, p.2.

33 Bruce P. Frassinelli, “Arch honors former Eastonian”, EASTON EXPRESS, Wednesday, 28 Sept. 1988, p.B2; Ken Klabunde, “PostKard Korner: A Governor, An Arch, A School . . . An Athenaeum”, THE IRREGULAR, Jan. 2007, p.2.

34 Accord, Northampton County Tax Records, www.ncpub.org. It is not clear what serves as the basis for this date. A study done by William Peterson, Eagle Scout Project: Historic Guide of Easton Site #6 (2006), available through Easton City website, www.easton-pa.com (via “History” link), states the house was built for Dr. Henry Detwiller in 1842, but this date may be a transpositional error. It is also clear that Dr. Detwiller did not reach Easton until 10 years later.

35 Russ Dodge, et al., “Samuel David Gross”, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11826019 (first added 26 Sept. 2005).

36 Ethan A. Weaver, “Historical Sketches Relating to Easton and Northampton County, Pa., and Their Inhabitants”, in Local Historical and Biographical Notes from the Files of Newspapers Published in Easton, Penna 39, at 40 (Germantown: New Series 1906).

37 Dr. Gross, “Report To the President and Members of the Council of the borough of Easton”, EASTON CENTINEL, Fri., 3 Aug. 1832, p.3, cols.2-6.

38 Wikipedia, “Samuel D. Gross”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Gross. 39 Russ Dodge, et al., “Samuel David Gross”, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?

page=gr&GRid=11826019 (first added 26 Sept. 2005). 51 “Dominique Vandamme”, in Napoleonic Guide,

www.napoleonguide.com/soldiers_vandamm.htm (accessed 13 Nov. 2009). 52 John G. Gallaher, Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible General Dominique Vandamme

(University of Oklahoma Press 2008). 53 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (ed. by R.W. Phipps), Memoirs of Bonaparte

Napoleon, vol.12, ch. XXVIII – 1813 (Globusz Publishing 1891), available at

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www.globusz.com/ebooks/Napoleon12/00000011.htm (accessed 13 Nov. 2009). 54 See “Dominique Vandamme”, in Napoleonic Guide,

www.napoleonguide.com/soldiers_vandamm.htm (accessed 13 Nov. 2009). 55 John G. Gallaher, Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible General Dominique Vandamme 293

(University of Oklahoma Press 2008). 56 See “Dominique Vandamme”, in Napoleonic Guide,

www.napoleonguide.com/soldiers_vandamm.htm (accessed 13 Nov. 2009). 57 Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 440 (George W. West 1885 / 1889). 92 Article, “$90,000 Offered for Detwiller Property in September, 1917”, EASTON DAILY

FREE PRESS, Fri., 11 Jan. 1918, p.1, col.6. 93 Article, “$90,000 Offered for Detwiller Property in September, 1917”, EASTON DAILY

FREE PRESS, Fri., 11 Jan. 1918, p.1, col.6; see Article, “Appraisers Value the Detwiller Property at $90,000”, EASTON EXPRESS, Thurs., 28 Feb. 1918, p.1, cols.7-8; Article, “May Be Controversy Over Detwiller Sale”, EASTON EXPRESS, Fri., 22 Feb. 1918, p.1, cols.4-5.

94 Article, “Appraisers Value the Detwiller Property at $90,000”, EASTON EXPRESS, Thurs., 28 Feb. 1918, p.1, cols.7-8; see Article, “Detwiller Home Sold – Centre Square Residence, appraised at $90,000, Bought for $40,000”, EASTON EXPRESS, 21 Feb. 1918.

95 See Article, “Detwiller Home Sold – Centre Square Residence, appraised at $90,000, Bought for $40,000”, EASTON EXPRESS, Thurs., 21 Feb. 1918, p.1, col.5.

96 See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 48-50 Centre Square.97 Article, “May Be Controversy Over Detwiller Sale”, EASTON EXPRESS, Fri., 22 Feb.

1918, p.1, cols.4-5; Article, “Contest Over Sale of Detwiller Property – At Least One of the Heirs Will Bring Proceedings to Set Aside Sale”, EASTON EXPRESS, Mon., 25 Feb. 1918, p.1, cols.4-5; Article, “Appraisers Value the Detwiller Property at $90,000”, EASTON EXPRESS, Thurs., 28 Feb. 1918, p.1, cols.7-8; Article, “Answer In Detwiller Case”, EASTON EXPRESS, Mon., 18 Mar. 1918, p.1, col.8 (O’Hay filed an answer asking that his sale be confirmed).

98 Deed, Elizabeth D. Campbell, et al. (children of John J. Detwiller and their successors, under the Estate of Henry Detwiller), to Bernhardt D. Mayer and Horace Mayer, C47 611 (23 Feb. 1920)(sale price $70,000).

99 Charles M. Barnard (compiler), West’s Directory for City of Easton 241 (Charles M. Barnard 1923); H.P. Delano (compiler), West’s Directory for City of Easton Pennsylvania 261 (Union Publishing Co. Inc. 1925); West’s Directory for City of Easton Pennsylvania 256 (Union Publishing Co. Inc. 1927); West’s Easton Pa. and Phillipsburg, N.J. Directory 228 (R.L. Polk & Co. of Philadelphia 1930).

82 Original painting displayed in the Sigal Museum, Easton, PA. Courtesy of Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society. All rights reserved.

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Moon died in 1860, and accordingly this portrait must have been painted before that time. See Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society, “Samuel Moon 1805 – 1860”, in Northampton Notes, Vol.6, No.3, at 1, 4 (August 1990).

83 Compare Summa & Buscemi, Images of America: Historic Easton, supra at 68 (picture in 1887 shows Detwiller House with no tower) with Photos of Centre Square in 1890, 1900 and 1906 in Marx Room (Easton Area Public Library) photo file, alphabetized under “Centre Square” (shows Dewiller Building in 1890 with tower). See generally William Peterson, Eagle Scout Project: Historic Guide of Easton, supra at Site #6 (building enlarged). See also Ethan Allen Weaver, “The Forks of the Delaware” Illustrated 357 (Eschenbach Press 1900)(picture).

This building and tower is apparently part of the artistic rendition included in Timothy George Hare, Easton Inkscapes cover and No.24 (Easton: Inkwell Publications 1989).

84 Obituary, “Dr. John J. Detwiller Passes Away”, EASTON DAILY ARGUS, Mon., 28 Feb. 1916, p.1, cols.3-4.

85 Deed, The Merchants Bank of Easton Pennsylvania to Dr. John J. Detwiller, et al., A16 516 (30 Dec. 1878); see also American Journal of Progress, “Greater Easton of To-day” 14 (written c.1902 during Mayor B. Rush Field’s second 2-year term, reprinted courtesy of W-Graphics)(spelled “Detwiler”); Edward Sieger, “Museum weds part of city’s past” (Box “Centuries of History”), EXPRESS-TIMES, Fri., 24 Oct. 2008, p.B1, at B3, cols.2-3. See generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Sigal Building at 342-48 Northampton Street.

86 American Journal of Progress, “Greater Easton of To-day” 14 (written c.1902 during Mayor B. Rush Field’s second 2-year term, reprinted courtesy of W-Graphics)(spelled “Detwiler”).

87 Obituary, “Dr. John J. Detwiller Passes Away”, EASTON DAILY ARGUS, Mon., 28 Feb. 1916, p.1, cols.3-4.

88 Bill and Carol Weiss, The Moser Building 8 (typewritten 29 May 1984). 89 Obituary, “Dr. John J. Detwiller Passes Away”, EASTON DAILY ARGUS, Mon., 28 Feb.

1916, p.1, cols.3-4. 90 See Article, “First Families Once Lived Where Business Now Holds Sway at Entrance to

Circle”, EASTON EXPRESS, 26 Feb. 1937, p.17 (used until 1916); Deed, William K. (Eva May) Detwiller to Sidney Wilmer and Walter Vincent, H52 250 (15 Sept. 1924)(regarding purchase of a 1/12 interest in the Abel Opera House from a child of Dr. John J. Detwiller, reciting that Dr. Detwiller had died on 28 Feb. 1916); Deed, Frederick K. Detwiller to Sidney wilmer and Walter Vincent, H50 501 (14 May 1923)(same).

91 See Deed, Elizabeth D. Campbell, et al. (children of John J. Detwiller and their successors, under the Estate of Henry Detwiller), to Bernhardt D. Mayer and Horace Mayer, C47 611 (23 Feb. 1920).

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100 Deed Poll, Charles H. Unangst, Sheriff, for Bernhardt D. Mayer and Horace Mayer, to Easton National Bank, C65 570 (13 Nov. 1933).

101 See generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 1 Centre Square. 102 Deed, Easton National Bank to Jacob Mayer, H72 180 (20 Dec. 1941). 103 Deed, Jacob (Fannie) Mayer to Bernard Reswick, E81 119 (1 July 1947). 104 Deed, Bernard Reswick to John Avrutis, B80 396 (1 Oct. 1947)(half interest); Bernard

(Frances) Reswick and John (Georgene) Avrutis to Ely Zimmerman, et al,., D89 394 (30 Jan. 1952); Deed, Ely Zimmerman, et al., to B.E.M. Realty Corp., 315 222 (1 Nov. 1967); Deed, B.E.M. Realty Corp. to Ely Zimmerman, et al., 315 225 (18 Feb. 1968); Deed, Ely Zimmerman, et al., to Lehigh Industrial Realty Co., 441 384 (17 Oct. 1972); Deed, Lehigh Industrial Realty Co. to Raymond Baurkot, 574 117 (1 Nov. 1977).

105 Deed, Raymond Baurkot to Rachel E. (Souad) Haddad, 703 309 (24 June 1986)(sale price $120,000); see Deed, Rachel E. Haddad to Rachel E. Haddad Revocable Living Trust, 2006-1-131953 (25 Mar. 2006)(reciting that Souad Haddad had died on 8 July 1998). See also Northampton County Tax Records, www.ncpub.org (54 Center Sq).

106 See Article, “Dunkin’ Donuts Marks Arrival March of Dimes Honors Pektor”, EXPRESS-TIMES, Wed. 4 Oct. 2006, p.C-8.

107 See See Edward Sieger, “Partnership loans $55,000 to 2 city property owners, One intends to open café, Other plans to improve floors above doughnut shop on Centre Square”, EXPRESS-TIMES, Tues., 7 Nov. 2006, p.B-1 (stir); Edward Sieger, “Many visions for Easton’s Downtown – Merchants at odds – Looking for a jump-start”, EXPRESS-TIMES, Sun., 24 Sept. 2006, p.A-1 (“ruffled some feathers”).

108 See Edward Sieger, “Dunkin’ Donuts ready to roll into Center Square, City Council approves chain, The store will face some restrictions because its in historic district”, EXPRESS-TIMES, Thurs., 27 July 2006, p.B-2.

109 See Edward Sieger, “Partnership loans $55,000 to 2 city property owners, One intends to open café, Other plans to improve floors above doughnut shop on Centre Square”, EXPRESS-TIMES, Tues., 7 Nov. 2006, p.B-1; Edward Sieger, “Group loaning $55,000 for work on 2 properties’, EXPRESS-TIMES, Tues., 7 Nov. 2006, p.B-7.

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