Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.66Description
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 66 contains two columns of newspaper clippings:
William Rittenhouse learned the paper trade in Amsterdam where he was then known as Wilhelm Rittershausen. He was as old as William Penn and came to Pennsylvania six years after the Founder. When he arrived, he purchased twenty acres of land in Germantown. On his land ran a small creek that "tunbled" into the Wissahickon. Here, he built his home and a grist mill. He then transformed the grist mill into a paper mill where he produced paper of every grqde and the first made in Pennsylvania. Rittenhouse lost his mill in a storm in 1700, but rebuilt. Rittenhouse was a devout Mennonite throughout his life. Descendants of Rittenhouse and their accomplishments are also described, especially those of his great grandson, David Rittenhouse. The artice is "signed" Girard.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection