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 ERHAPS nowhere in the New World 
 exists a place where respect for old 
 institutions, historical relics, and an 
 honorable family name, is more gen- 
 eral than in the City of Philadelphia. 
 A walk through the old part of the 
 town will reveal a large number of 
 buildings that are venerable and hoary 
 with age, and about which are told 
 many reminiscences and interesting stories bearing upon early 
 Colonial and Revolutionary times. Most of these old structures 
 are in a fine state of preservation, and every care is being taken 
 to preserve them where they are of historical interest. 
 
 Closely identified with these old buildings are many 
 firms whose existence dates back to their inception more than 
 a century ago, as was proven by the forming of an association 
 of centenary firms and corporations of the United States on 
 June 12, 1889, in which are eligible only those firms or cor- 
 porations that are controlled by descendants of the original 
 founder who controlled them a hundred years ago. After an 
 exhaustive search, it was found that The Francis Perot's Sons 
 Malting Company was the oldest in continuous existence, 
 having descended from father to son for eight generations. 
 This house is older than the Bank of England, which dates 
 back to 1694. 
 
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 THE STAR MARKS THE ORIGINAL MALT-HOUSE AND BREWERY 
 
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 The founder of the house, Anthony Morris 2d, was born 
 in the City of London on August 23, 1654, a record of his 
 birth being still extant in St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, 
 London, which has records back to the year 1000 A.D. His 
 father, who was also named Anthony, was captain of a mer- 
 chant vessel trading between London and Barbadoes, and was 
 lost at sea in 1655 while returning from Barbadoes. He 
 was survived by his wife and only child. Shortly after his 
 death Mrs. Morris found it necessary to go to Barbadoes and 
 settle her husband's affairs. She died soon after her arrival, 
 about 1660, leaving Anthony the Second an orphan at the age 
 of six years. He came to this country in February, 1682 
 (old style), bringing with him his wife and his only living 
 child, Anthony Morris the Third, and settled at Burlington, 
 New Jersey, fourteen miles up the Delaware River from Phila- 
 delphia. He remained there until 1686, when he returned 
 down the river and cast in his lot with the thriving hamlet 
 which the great Penn had founded on the broad and Christian- 
 like principles of honest trading and fraternal love. In West's 
 painting of Penn's Treaty with the Indians, Anthony Morris 
 the Second is depicted as carrying a cane (which is still in the 
 family), and with a broad-brimmed hat, according to the dress 
 of Friends at that period. 
 
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 OF ANTHONY MORRIS ON THE PHILADELPHIA WATER FRONT IN 1720 
 
 In the following year, 1687, he purchased a lot on the 
 east side of Front Street, below Walnut, facing the Delaware 
 River, and erected thereon a malt-house and brewery. There 
 were no architectural frills or cathedral glass trimmings about 
 the premises; the machinery was primitive and crude, the 
 **tuns^' and "rounds" out of proper proportion, the "copper" 
 of limited capacity, no doubt; but the "bitter" evolved was 
 rich in nutritious and invigorating ingredients. Contempo- 
 raneous documents vouch for its pure and wholesome charac- 
 ter and for its popularity among the hardy and God-fearing 
 pioneers of the Keystone State. 
 
 The Philadelphia Library have in their possession an old 
 painting which is hung to the left of the main entrance into 
 the upper audience room. The title, in quaint lettering, reads: 
 "The Southeast Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, by 
 Peter Cooper, Painter." It represents a view of Philadelphia 
 from the Delaware River as the town appeared in the year 
 1720. The index in the margin of said painting directs atten- 
 tion to a gable- roofed building in the lower left-hand corner 
 of the scene as "Ant. Morris' Brew House." 
 
 The old building was long since torn down to make way for 
 the necessities of the growing commercial life of the city. The 
 building now on the site contains a memorial stone to per- 
 petuate its character. The Baptist denomination met in the 
 
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 original building for worship from November, 1698, to 1707. 
 Prior to that time they had worshipped in a little one-story 
 frame building jointly with the Presbyterians. The latter finally 
 dispossessed the former, and Anthony Morris offered the 
 Baptists the use of his brew-house for their services. 
 
 The occupation of brewing was at that time followed by 
 prominent members of the Society of Friends, who were lead- 
 ing men in the community, and the beer was highly esteemed 
 for its purity and strength. Watson says: ^^In the early 
 period of Philadelphia it was very common for good livers to 
 have malt-houses on their several premises for making home- 
 made strong beer. There were such as J. Logan's at Penns- 
 burg, and several others, until seventy years ago.'' Gabriel 
 Thomas, in his account of Philadelphia and the Province in 
 1696, published probably in 1707-9, states: ^^The brewers sell 
 such beer as is equal in strength to that in London, half ale 
 and half stout for fifteen shillings per barrel; and their beer 
 hath a better name, that is, it is more esteemed than English 
 beer in Barbadoes, and is sold for a higher price there.'' 
 
 The brewery of Anthony Morris Second is said to have 
 been the second of record as to certain location, the first having 
 been that of William Framton, in that same neighborhood, in 
 Front Street between Walnut and Spruce. 
 
 Anthony Morris Second held many positions of emolu- 
 ment and trust in the infant Commonwealth, a strong indication 
 of the confidence and esteem in which he was universally 
 held. He was the second Mayor of Philadelphia, Edward 
 Shippen having been the first. About the year 1705 he became 
 Supreme Judge of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He 
 died in 1721. 
 
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 In 1706 Anthony Morris Second made over a share of 
 his business to his son, Anthony Morris Third. The latter 
 was born in London, England, March 15, 1681-2, and upon 
 the death of his father, on August 23, 1721, he was left the 
 
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 remaining interest in the business, according to his father's 
 will, as follows: 
 
 ** To my son Anthony Morris, my bank and water lot in Phila- 
 delphia, with brewhouse, malthouse, brewing utensils, negroes, horses 
 and cattle (except one cow, which I intend tor my wife)." 
 
 When Anthony Morris Third arrived at the age of four- 
 teen years he put himself, with the consent of his father, an 
 apprentice to Henry Babcock and Mary his wife, to learn the 
 art and mysteries of brewing, to serve for seven years from 
 the 29th day of February, then called Twelfth month, in the 
 year 1695-6, as can be seen by the following copy of indenture: 
 
 " This indenture witnesseth that Anthony Morris of his own free 
 will and with ye consent of his Father Anthony Morris of Philadelphia 
 Merchant signified by his signing & sealing hereby Hath put himself an ap- 
 prentice to Henry Babcock of Philadelphia aforesaid Brewer & Mary his wife 
 unto the art or trade of a Brewer hereby obliging himself after ye manner 
 of an apprentice with them to dwell & serve from ye day of ye date hereof 
 for and during the term of seven years from thense next ensuing and fully 
 to be compleat & ended. By & during all which term the sd apprentice 
 Anthony Morris Junior doth covenant and promise to & with the sd Henry 
 Babcock & Mary his wife that he shall & will well & faithfully serve them 
 the sd Henry & Mary as his Master & Mistress, their secrets he shall 
 keep, their commands lawful & honest every word he shall obey, their 
 hurt or damage he shall not contrive or do nor suffer to be done, but prevent 
 & hinder the same, & from their service he shall not absent himself, nor 
 the art & mystery of brewing he shall not disclose or discover to any 
 person or persons during ye sd term without the special leave or license 
 of his master & mistress and in all things and at all times he shall carry 
 and behave himself as a good true & faithful servant and apprentice towards 
 the sd Henry Babcock & Mary his wife. Jn consideration whereof and 
 of ye summ of Twenty pounds in hand paid by the sd Anthony Morris to 
 the sd Henry Babcock & Mary his wife, doo hereby covenant, promise, 
 & grant to & with ye sd Anthony Morris Junior that him the sd Anthony 
 Morris in ye sd art & trade of a Brewer, with all the mistery & secret 
 which they now use or may hereafter discover herein they shall & will 
 teach & inform or cause to be taught & informed, according to ye best of 
 their knowledge, skill & judgement, and also shall & will find & allow 
 unto their sd apprentice sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging, & mend- 
 ing of his linen & woolen cloaths. And that they shall not put him to 
 drive the dray or cart ; carrying of casks, grinding at the hand mill or 
 
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 such like slavish work not fitt for an apprentice of his degree, anything 
 herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. And the sd Anthony 
 Morris Senior doth hereby covenant & promise to find & maintain his sd 
 son with all necessary cloathing during the said term of his apprenticeship. 
 ««In witness whereof the sd parties to these presents have mter- 
 changeably sett their hands & seals hereunto the 29th day of the 12th 
 month called February Anno Domini 1695-6." 
 
 HENRY BABCOCK 
 mark 
 MARY M. BABCOCK 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered 
 
 in presence of us 
 
 NEHEMIAH ALLEN 
 
 ISAAC SEFFIN. 
 
 On October 4, 1715, he was elected a member of Com- 
 mon Council, and at that time members were chosen for hfe. 
 In 1721 he was elected Representative from Philadelphia in 
 the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, and was re- 
 elected in 1722, 1723, 1724, and 1725. In 1741 he purchased 
 a large brick dwelling on the west side of Second Street, be- 
 tween Arch and Race, on the lot in the rear of which he later 
 built a malt-house and brewery. He resided here until his 
 death, September 23, 1763. 
 
 Cl}<rti dgeneration 
 
 Anthony Morris Fourth, son of Anthony Morris Third, 
 was born in Philadelphia on November 14, 1705. On De- 
 cember 10, 1741, his father gave him a half interest in the 
 original old brewery property on Front Street; but as this 
 had been used for over fifty years, he purchased a lot at the 
 corner of Dock and Pear Streets in 1745, and built a new and 
 much larger establishment. (This building was in a good 
 state of preser\^ation until about 1900, when it was torn down.) 
 He selected this lot on account of the presence of several 
 springs on the property. The fact was told by Timothy 
 Matlack in his early days, when connected with that brewery, 
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 that ^^ they once esteemed their beer as surpassing any in the 
 city, from the use of that spring, which they concealed and 
 kept a secret." 
 
 DOCK AND PEAR STREETS BREWERY 
 
 if ourtl) dgeneration 
 
 Anthony Morris Fifth and Thomas Morris, both sons of 
 Anthonv Morris Fourth, conducted the malt-house and brew- 
 ery situated in the rear of the large house their grandfather 
 Anthony Morris Third had built on the west side of Second 
 Street above Arch, which property ran back to Bread Street. 
 
 Anthony Morris Fifth was born October 8, 1738. When 
 the Revolution broke out, he joined the American forces with 
 the rank of Major. He was killed at the Battle of Princeton 
 on July 3, 1777. When he joined the army, his brother, 
 Thomas Morris, was left in entire charge of the business; 
 but Anthony Morris Fifth was succeeded in business by his 
 brother. Captain Samuel Morris. The latter, however, with- 
 drew from the partnership after two years. 
 
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 Captain Samuel Morris was Commander of The First 
 Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, which served throughout the 
 Revolution as bodyguard of General Washington. This Troop 
 served also in the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and is still 
 prosperous. Captain Morris was forty-six years Governor of the 
 old Fish House of the State in Schuylkill, which was founded 
 
 THOMAS MORRIS SECOND 
 
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 in 1732; and up to the present time his name has been toasted 
 at every meeting of that society, his being preceded only by 
 those of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There 
 is now in the possession of the family a letter which General 
 Washington wrote to Captain Morris, of the First City Troop, 
 conveying his thanks for their v^aluable services in the war for 
 
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 independence. It remains in the original silver case, with 
 likeness of General Washington, set in gold, which Captain 
 Dunlap, of the Troop, prepared and presented to ^'his friend,'' 
 
 Captain Morris. 
 
 Thomas Morris was born on Second Street, below Dock, 
 on January 25, 1746. He was much interested in educational 
 matters, was an Overseer of the Public School, and a member 
 of the Committee having in charge the building of the Phila- 
 delphia Library, and of the Committee which superintended 
 the building of the Westtown Friends' Boarding School. He 
 was a Manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital and the Phila- 
 delphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses. 
 
 fifti^ dgeneration 
 
 Thomas Morris died in 1809, and was succeeded in busi- 
 ness by two of his sons, namely, Thomas Morris Second and 
 Joseph S. Morris. Upon the death of Joseph S. Morris, 
 Thomas Morris Second became sole owner of the malt-house 
 and brewery, as well as the dwelling, which his great-grand- 
 father had built on North Second Street. He was born in 
 this house on July 13, 1774, and, like his father, was a Man- 
 ager of the Pennsylvania Hospital for a number of years, as 
 well as interested in many philanthropic institutions of the 
 city. Like all of his forefathers in this country, he was a 
 prominent member of the Society of Friends. He died 
 April 14, 1841. 
 
 ^trtl) dgeneration 
 
 Francis Perot, son of Elliston Perot, was born on Market 
 Street, below Eighth, Philadelphia, on August 23, 1796. His 
 father and his uncle, John Perot, were engaged in the East 
 India trade. 
 
 While employed in his father's counting-house at the age 
 of about fifteen years, he was sent to bank one day to make a de- 
 posit. On his way he passed the brewery of William Dawson, 
 
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 where he was attracted by some work in progress. Mr. 
 Dawson, noticing that he was taking an interest, inquired as 
 to who he was, saying: ^^Thee is a good, strong-looking lad; 
 what is thy name?" Upon being told, he replied: ^^Thee 
 would make a good brewer." Mr. Dawson invited him to 
 look through the building. The lad was so delighted with 
 
 FRANCIS PEROT 
 
 what he saw that, upon his return, he told his father he wished 
 to become a brewer. His father consenting, he was appren- 
 ticed to Thomas Morris for six years, having to pay his em- 
 ployer a fee of one thousand dollars for the privilege. The first 
 two years he spent in the malt-house, and one year as a miller. 
 
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 While so employed he had to daily carry ninety bushels 
 of malt on his back to the third floor, where it was ground, 
 and then carry it one story higher. For one year he was m 
 the cellar, after which he was given charge of the brewing. 
 Three mornings a week he had to get up at 1 o'clock to brew. 
 After his apprenticeship he took the malt-house of Samuel 
 Downing, at Downingtown, for one winter, and in 1818 he 
 
 VINE STREET MALT-HOUSE, JI4 VINE STREET 
 
 purchased the brewery and malt-house on the south side of 
 Vine Street between Third and Fourth. About a year after- 
 ward he took into partnership his brother, William S. Perot. 
 In 1823 he married Elizabeth M. Morris, daughter of his 
 former employer, Thomas Morris. For some years after 
 Francis Perot had entered in business on Vine Street, Thomas 
 Morris continued at the old place on Second Street. It was 
 not infrequent that Francis Perot went to Thomas Morris's 
 to brew for him, and finally he succeeded to his business. The 
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 cream beer and table beer brewed by Francis Perot enjoyed a 
 most enviable reputation, and its fame was known far and wide. 
 
 The Perot branch of the family also has a lineage which 
 extends far back into the centuries. The first of the name to 
 come to this country was James Perot, who setded at New 
 Rochelle, New York, in 1687. He, with many others, left 
 France on account of his religious beliefs. His son went to 
 Bermuda to live, where the family remained for a number of 
 years. Early in 1785 Elliston and John Perot setded in 
 Philadelphia and engaged in the West India trade on North 
 Water Street, next door to Stephen Girard, in which business 
 they continued for many years. Elliston Perot was the first 
 person to locate his summer home at what afterward became 
 the celebrated watering-place. Long Branch, New Jersey. To 
 reach there it was necessary for his family to drive across 
 New Jersey from Philadelphia. 
 
 There is an interesting story connected with the Perot 
 family, which may appropriately be told here. About the 
 time of the St. Bartholomew Massacre in Paris, one of their 
 Huguenot ancestors, James Perot, and nineteen others were 
 condemned, on account of their religious opinions, to be 
 placed each in a separate cell, with the door walled up, to re- 
 main there without food or water for twenty-one days. At the 
 end of this period the walls of the doors were taken down, and 
 all except James Perot were found to have starved to death. 
 In his case it happened that a chicken had a nest in a dark 
 corner of his cell and came daily through a small hole or 
 window and laid an egg. These eggs gave him the liquid 
 and solid nourishment sufficient to keep him alive. 
 
 Another historical fact that should be mentioned here is 
 that in 1819 Francis Perot had erected one of the first sta- 
 tionary steam-engines in America, in his brewery on Vine 
 Street, Philadelphia. It was built by Thomas Holloway, and 
 was in constant operation for over fifty years. It is now at 
 the new plant of the company at Buffalo, New York, where it 
 is kept as an historical relic. It is believed to be the oldest 
 
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 Stationary steam-engine built in America, and consists of a 
 vertical cylinder forty inches long, which, together with a 
 valve chest, was bolted to a condenser box five feet long, two 
 feet deep and twenty inches wide. This condenser was kept 
 
 OLD STEAM ENGINE 
 
 filled with cold water. The piston connected by a shaft with 
 a walking-beam on the floor above. On this revolved a six- 
 foot fly-wheel and the driving pulley. The governor, a vast 
 affair, was also rigged upstairs. The engine was of a low- 
 pressure type, and developed about ten-horse power. The 
 gauge consisted of a tube about six feet long, containing a 
 considerable quantity of mercury, from the top of which pro- 
 jected a stick marked as a pressure indicator. 
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 Francis Perot continued brewing and malting until 1850, 
 from which time he gave his entire attention to malting, giving 
 up brewing altogether. 
 
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 T. MORRIS PEROT 
 
 ^etentl^ dgeneration 
 
 T. Morris Perot, the son of Francis and Elizabeth 
 Marshall Perot, daughter of Thomas Morris, graduated from 
 the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1849. On January 
 1, 1851, he started in the wholesale drug business at No. 21 
 
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 North Fourth Street, and a year later took into partnership with 
 him Edward H. Ogden, the husband of his only sister, under 
 the firm name of T. Morris Perot & Co. After a disastrous 
 hre at their wholesale drug store, No. 621 Market Street, in 
 1869, they went into partnership with Francis Perot at Nos. 
 310 to 320 Vine Street, Philadelphia, under the firm name of 
 Francis Perot's Sons. Their business grew rapidly, and in 
 conjunction with their Vine Street malt-house they operated 
 one at the northeast corner of Twenty-first and Spruce Streets, 
 and later one at Thompson and Hutchinson Streets. In 1882 
 
 OSWEGO MALT-HOUSE 
 
 they bought a malt-house on the Erie Canal at Oswego, New 
 York, in order to be nearer the Canadian barley fields. This 
 malt-house, which originally was operated on the floor system, 
 they greatly enlarged and altered into a pneumatic house, and 
 it was in constant operation for twenty-five years. As the 
 storage capacity of the malt-house was limited, they also 
 acquired a large elevator on the canal. Both plants are oper- 
 ated by water-power. 
 
 In 1887 the firm was incorporated under the title of The 
 Francis Perot's Sons Malting Company, the officers being T. 
 
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 Morris Perot, President; Edward H. Ogden, Vice-President; 
 Elliston Perot, Secretary, and Theodore F. Miller, Treasurer. 
 While in the drug business, during the War of the Rebel- 
 lion, T. Morris Perot invented a combined ambulance and 
 drug-store, which was adopted by the United States Govern- 
 ment and other countries, and was used in the field exclusively 
 by the Union Army during the war and for a number of 
 years afterward. 
 
 OSWEGO ELEVATOR 
 
 He was interested in many public affairs in Philadelphia, 
 and for more than forty years was President of the Mercantile 
 Library Company, during which time the library grew from 
 23,000 to over 175,000 volumes. At one time it was the 
 largest library in the United States. He was also President 
 of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania for over 
 thirty years. This was the first woman's medical college in 
 the country. He always took an active interest in the Phila- 
 delphia College of Pharmacy, of which he was a director, and 
 was interested in many charities and in municipal movements 
 for the betterment of the city. 
 
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 Edward H. Ogden, who married the daughter of Francis 
 Perot, was also a graduate of the Philadelphia College of 
 Pharmacy, and through all of his life was associated with T. 
 Morris Perot in business. He was likewise interested in 
 
 FRANCIS PEROT OGDEN 
 
 many charitable and educational organizations, taking an active 
 part in the upbuilding of Swarthmore College. He was a 
 Director of the Consolidation National Bank, and at one time 
 Vice-President; and at the time of his death he was a Director 
 of the Provident Life and Trust Company and a number of 
 charitable institutions. 
 
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 It was the desire of Francis Perot that he should event- 
 ually be succeeded in business by his three grandsons, Francis 
 Perot Ogden, Elliston Perot, and T. Morris Perot, Jr. 
 
 Francis Perot Ogden was born on January 4, 1855, and 
 for a number of years was a partner in the firm of Francis 
 
 MALT-HOUSE AND GRAIN ELEVATOR, BUFFALO 
 
 Perot's Sons. He died at the early age of thirty-two years, 
 but had been most active in the conduct of the business as 
 well as interested in a number of charities. After his death 
 in 1887 the present company was incorporated, and is now 
 represented in the eighth generation by T. Morris Perot, Jr., 
 President, and Elliston Perot, Vice-President and Treasurer! 
 The present Secretary, Mr. Theodore F. Miller, has been 
 associated with the business since January, 1864. 
 
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 Finding that the old buildings of the company were in- 
 adequate for the manufacture of malt of the best quality, 
 which it has always been their desire to produce, and not 
 hav^ing sufficient capacity to meet the increasing demands of 
 the trade, the company, in 1907, erected a large malt-house of 
 brick, steel, and concrete at Buffalo, New York. This house 
 has a capacity of about 1,000,000 bushels per annum, and is 
 fitted out with all the latest machinery. The system of malt- 
 ing used is that of the Saladin Pneumatic Malting Construc- 
 tion Company. The grain elevator, having a capacity of 
 400,000 bushels, is located about fifty feet distant from the 
 malt-house. It consists of cylindrical tanks of reinforced con- 
 crete, which has been found well adapted for the storage of 
 grain. The machinery installed for the cleaning and handling 
 of both barley and malt is all of the latest and most improved 
 type. 
 
 We do not believe that there is another house in exist- 
 ence in the United States to-day — and it is doubtful whether 
 there is one in England — that can present a continuous un- 
 broken line of descent in one line of business such as this. 
 There are certainly none in the brewing and malting trades 
 that have existed in one family for more than two hundred 
 years. It is a record of which the surviving members of the 
 family are justified in feeling proud- During its two centu- 
 ries of existence, amid all the vicissitudes of a commercial life, 
 in "good" times and in *' bad " times, it has always main- 
 tained the highest standard of business probity and commer- 
 cial honor, without a single stoppage of any kind. Its founda- 
 tions, like those of the city of the immortal Penn, were laid 
 in enduring materials — fair dealing, strict business integrity, 
 and rugged personal honesty. The forefathers builded well, 
 and each succeeding generation has added fresh laurels to a 
 proud record and additional honor to an untarnished name. 
 
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