Notes and Citations

The following references include historical documents and other archives that can be located at the Horsham Preservation and Historical Association or in our online archives.

1. Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, “Letter from Anthony Wayne”, 14 September 1777, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Material Case 14, Box 16, Philadelphia, PA (Gentile p4).

2. Gentile, Nancy Jacquelyn, The Penrose Family at Graeme Park 1801-1920, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ©1984 ISBN 0-89271-031-4 (Available at Graeme Park Visitor Center).

3. Ousterhout,Anne M. The Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson , Pennsylvania State Univ Pres (November 24, 2003), ISBN-10: 0271023112, ISBN-13: 978-0271023113 (Available at Graeme Park Visitor Center) or through Amazon..

4. Gentile, p6.

5. Penrose Strawbridge Homestead Title Search “Penrose Strawbridge House Report,” Margaret Choate.

6. “Penrose Coat of Arms” from website 4crests.com retrieved February 6, 2015.

7. Rev DK Turner, A Collection of Papers Read Before the Bucks County Historical Society, Vol. II (Reigelsville, PA; BF Fackenthal, Jr 1909), Page 446.

8. “Quakers and War” website retrieved.

9. Jennie M Davis, “Penrose Family – Wirtten for First Reunion” August 29, 1914 , In possession of Mary Twining Jones Park, Horsham, PA.

10. “Horsham Friends Meeting Records,” Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library.

11. Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Vol XVI, (Norristown, PA: Historical Society of Montgomery County, 1967-69).

12. Historic American Buildings Survey, Graeme Park, National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240. 

13.  En Shui Tai @ P.O. Box 736, Hong Kong, Letter to Margaret Strawbridge,>Sept. 21, 1949 – in collection of Pete and Margaret Choate

14. Horsham Public Spirit June 9, 1949

15. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Bucks County, PA (Buffalo, NY:Biographical Publishing Company, 1899P page 137; Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County Vol XVI (Norristown, PA: Historical Society of Montgomery County 1967-69)

16. Theodore W Bean, ed., History of Montgomery County (Philadelphia, PA Everts & Peck, 1884)

17. John F Watson, “Visit to Graeme Park” September 13, 1855, Historical Society of Philadelphia, Am 3015, Philadelphia, PA

18. Quaker Activism

19. C. Stokes, “For the Herald – A Wedding at Graeme Park”, June 18, 1857, Pennsylvania Historical Society, unpublished manuscripts, Philadelphia, PA

20. Life at Early Westtown

21. The Temperance Archive

22. The Friends Temperance Union – The Beginning

23. FAQ Portland Friends Meeting

24. Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of William Penrose, recorded December 23, 1863, Montgomery County Orphans Court 14.920, page 726

25. Gordon, Abby The History of Horsham Monthly Meeting Horsham Monthly Meeting, Horsham, PA 2009

26. The remains of a building fitting this description were found during an archaeological excavation in June 1984. As work was limited in scope, no further information is known at this time (2 p44)

27. “Sir William Keith”, The Doylestown Democrat, July 20, 1905, (Written by the Rev S.F. Hotchkin in 1885), Bucks County Historical Society, Spruance Library, Newspaper Clipping File

28. Penrose Letters, 1881-1900, Graeme Park Collection

29. Email Correspondence with Mary Brooks, archivist at the Westtown School, West Chester, PA

30. “Public Sale of Personal Property” , February 25,1911, Page 4

31. Evening Public Ledger., October 29, 1915, Final, Page 17 Philadelphia, PA (National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers)

32. Evening Public Ledger., November 24, 1919, Page 6, Philadelphia, PA retrievd from National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers February 9, 2015 (pdf)

33. Evening Public Ledger., January 26, 1920, Night Extra Financial, Page 20, Philadelphia, PA (National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers)

34. Evening Public Ledger.,February 02, 1920, Page 22 Col 7, Philadelphia, PA Retrieved from National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers February 9, 2015 (pdf)

35. Evening Star., November 09, 1907, Page 3, Image 27, Washington, DC (National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers)

36. Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Lippincott, Horace Mather The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhood J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912 (Google Book)

37. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 17 – The Historical Society of Philadelphia 1893 Google Book

38. The Historical Society of Montgomery County The History of a Horsham Homestead, 1300 Easton Road 1740-1967 privately printed by Ronald S. Mintz 1967 (HPHA Collection)

39. Craven, Maury The History of Horsham – unpublished (HPHA Collection)

40. Choate, Margaret “Penrose Strawbridge House – Historical Resource Survey” 2002 (HPHA Library)

41. “Preservation Plan and Feasibility Study: Keith-Penrose-Strawbridge House” Westfield Architects & Preservation Consultants January 2002 (HPHA Library)

42. Garvin, James L., A Building History of Northern New England, University Press of New England, 2001

43. LENI-LENAPE INDIANS, Native Americans Of New Jersey (2014) Atlantic County, NJ County Government Website. Retrieved June 18, 2014.

44. Native Americans (2014), Penn Treaty Museum website. Retrieved June 18, 2014. 

45. Brief History of William Penn (2014), U.S. History.Org website, Retrieved June 18, 2014.

46. William Penn Biography (2014) Biography.com website. Retrieved June 18, 2014.

47. William Penn, America’s First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace (2014), Quaker.org website. Retrieved June 18, 2014.

48. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Kenderdine Mill Complex, Dec. 10, 1991, Retrieved June 18, 2014. 

49. Keith Valley Road Bridge (2012) BridgeHunter.com website. Retrieved June 18. 2014 from https://bridgehunter.com/pa/montgomery/467046108001180/

50. Davis Grove Road Bridge (2012), BridgeHunter.com website, Retrieved June 18, 2014. 

51. Pennsylvania Route 463, February 21, 2014, Wikipedia website, Retreived June 18, 2014.

52. Pennsylvania Route 63, May 20, 2014, Wikipedia website, Retreived June 18, 2014.

53. Fitzwatertown, Montgomery County, MyOwnTimeMachine.com, Sabra Smith, Retrieved June 19, 2014.

54. Historical Society of Upper Dublin Fort Washington and Upper Dublin Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

55. Upper Moreland Historical Association, UMHA website, Retrieved July 29, 2014.

56. Rev.Samuel Fitch Hotchkin The York Road, Old and New Binder and Kelly, Philadelphia, PA 1892 Google Ebook.

57. Undiscovered Scotland website, Sir William Keith, retrieved January 14, 2015.

58. Friends of Graeme Park website, Sir William Keith, retrieved January 14, 2015.

59. Graeme Park Commonplace Book – Anne Graeme: retrieved January 14, 2015.

60. Smith, Frank Kingston Legacy of Wings, The Harold Pitcairn Story, Jason Aronson, Inc., NY 1981

61. Old Philadelphia Families, The North American March 10, 1912 Philadelphia, PA, retrieved January 18, 2015. 

62. Colbert, Pamela “Historic Significance and Feasibility Study,” December 1997, HPHA Collection.

63. 19th-20th Century, Friends of Graeme Park website, retrieved January 18,2015.

64. Evening Public Ledger.,January 3, 1922, Page 9, Col 1 “Social Activities”, Philadelphia, PA retrieved January 18, 2015 from National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers pdf

65. Davis, William H “History of Bucks County” website retrieved January 18, 2015 from pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/marshallgeorgem.html

66. Hunsinger, Jackie Strawbridge The Strawbridge Family in America Published privately 2014 – HPHA Collection

67. “History of Opthmalogy” Penn Medicine, Dept of Othmalogy website retrieved January 20, 2015 from www.uphs.upenn.edu/ophthalmology/about/history.htm

68. PENN BIOGRAPHIES George Strawbridge (1844-1914) retrieved January 20. 2015 from www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/strawbridge_geo.html

69. John Welsh (Diplomat) Wikipedia retrieved January 22, 2015 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Welsh_(diplomat)

70. Wikitree – George Strawbridge Jr website retrieved January 20. 2015 from www.wikitree.com/wiki/Strawbridge-23

71. Kyriakodis ,Harry “Logan Square, Lincoln & The Great Sanitary Fair of 1864” June, 2014 Hidden City Philadelphia website retrieved January 22, 2015 from http://hiddencityphila.org/2014/06/logan-square-president-lincoln-the-great-sanitary-fair-of-1864/

72. Wikipedia “United States Sanitary Commission” website retrieved January 22, 2105 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Sanitary_Commission

73. Library Company of Philadelphia “The Centennial Exhibition,Philadephia, PA” website retrieved January 22, 2015 from http://www.lcpimages.org/centennial/index.htm

74. Dennis T. Lawson, “Centennial Exhibition of 1876,” Historic Pennsylvania Leaflet No. 30 (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1969), retrieved January 22, 2015.

75. Eberlein, Harold Donaldson ,and Lippincott, Horace Mather The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighbourhood (Google eBook) 

76. The Asylum Project “Springbank on the Wissahickon” website retrieved January 22, 2015. https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Springbank_on_the_Wissahickon

77. “Sanitarium on the Wissahickon” by Michael Gessner June 8, 2011 website retrieved January 22, 2015. http://michaelgessner.com/2011/06/08/sanitarium-on-the-wissahickon/

78. Edgar Allan Poe: 1844 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library Image Collections, University of Pa.

79. Dr Thomas Graeme letter to Thomas Penn, 1755, probably in Graeme Park Collection.

80. Sir William Keith, Charles P. Keith and William Keith, “The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Apr., 1888),” pp. 1-33, Published by: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

81. Letters to Welsh Strawbridge from Chicago Institute of Art regarding wood panels in Keith House, in HPHA collection.

82. Letters to Welsh Strawbridge from Winterthur Museum regarding wood panels in Keith House, in HPHA collection.

83. NationalSteepleChase.com website, retrieved February 8, 2015.

84. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday morning July 24,1905, “Auto Run to Horsham and Graeme Park,” retreived from Fulton-History.com February 9, 2015.

85. Evening Public Ledger Monday June 6, 1919 p21 Col 1 “Changes in Brokerage Houses” retrieved from National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers February 9, 2015.

86. Margaret Strawbridge Oral History – HPHA Collection.

87. Horsham1.com website – this website had some interesting anecdotes about life in Horsham. We reproduced much of this on our page Horsham Timeline but the website has not been available since at least June 2014 and we were not able to determine who created it. So, some of the information that we reference from this site has to be taken as anecdotal.

88. New York Daily Tribune June 17, 1910, Page 8 Col 2, “Balloon Up 17,050 Feet”, retreived from National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers, February 8, 2015.

89. Charles P. Keith and William Keith “Sir William Keith,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Apr., 1888) , pp.1-33, published by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

90. Morton, Thomas George; Woodbury, Frank Pennsylvania Gazette, September 9, 1772, “Obituary for Dr Thomas Graeme'” retrieved from Google Books, February 10, 2015.

91. Horsham Society website, retrieved April 20, 2015.

92. Living Places: Kenderdine Mill, retrieved April 2012.

93. Press Release from Rep. Todd Stephens via Facebook, April 28, 2015.

94. “Stephens Legislation to Honor Fallen Vietnam War Hero Heads to Governor,” October 20, 2014, Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus website, retrieved April 29, 2015.

95. Kenderdine Mill Complex, Wikipedia website, retrieved April 2012.

96. Horsham–Montgomery Bridge, Wikipedia website, retrieved April 29, 2015. 

97. “Stuff and Nonsense – Myths That Should by Now Be History” Colonial Williamsburg Journal website Winter 2008 retrieved from http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Winter08/stuff.cfm 5/10/2015

98. “A Brief History of Lewis Allen: Of Fisher’s Island and New London, Conn., and His Descendants from 1699 to 1954” Tuttle Publishing Company, 1954, the University of Wisconsin – Madison p94 google books

99. Charles Harper Smith, The Settlement of Horsham Township (Trinity Press: Ambler, Pennsylvania, 1975)

100. Dr James Hilty, Talamore at Oak Terrace unpublished 2005, HPHA Library.

101. Boston Evening Transcript, Google newspapers, Dec. 3, 1914, page 12, 2nd column.

102. Furnesque website, retrieved Feb. 5, 2016.  

103. Stotesbury Mansion, History website retrieved Feb. 5, 2016. 

104. “Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants,” retrieved April 2, 2016.

105. Morris, Charles – History Of Pennsylvania (1913) retrieved April 2, 2016.

106. Morris, Charles – History Of Pennsylvania (1913) retrieved April 2, 2016.  

107. Penn Biographies – James Logan website, retrieved April 2, 2016. 

108. Morris, Edmund S & Helen M, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, UNC Press Books, 1953 Google Books retrieved 4/2/2016

109. Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, USHistory.org, retrieved August 24, 2018.

110. Vietnam Veterans Memorial website, William Henry Walls retrieved April 16, 2016.

111. Rep Thomas Murt Press Release, May 10, 2011 retrieved April 16, 2016. 

112. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Web Page, retrieved April 16, 2016. 

113. Justinian K Hallowell, My Genealogy Hound webpage, retrieved October 12, 2017. 

114. Mike Santora, CouplingTips.com (9/19/2017), retrieved October 12, 2017.

115. FundingUniverse.com, retrieved October 12, 2017.

116. Franklin Institute fi.edu retrieved 10/12/2017

117. GeorgeSchool.org, retrieved October 12, 2017.

118. Hallowell, Howard T, Sr, How a Farm Boy Built a Successful Corporation, Standard Pressed Steel Company, Jenkintown, PA 1951 (HPHA Library)

119. Clemmer, Leon and The Horsham Preservation and Historical Association, Images of America: Horsham Township, Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

120. Snider, Ann “Dating Old Barns,” Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society, History Quarterly Digital Archives. July 1980, Volume 18 Number 3, Pages 89–95, Retrieved July 3, 2018.

121. Pennsylania Barn PHMC,State-PA-US retrieved July 3, 2018.

122. The Dalziel Barn DalzielBarn.com retrieved July 31, 2018.

123. Fire Perils Mansion at Graeme Park, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 1949 Page 27 column 4, retrieved August 21, 2018.

124. Forges de la Providence, Wikipedia, retrieved August 2, 2018.

125. Scotland’s Oldest Bridges | Architecture, ScotlandsOldestBridges.co.uk, retrieved August 2, 2018.

126. Friends of Graeme Park website – History, retrieved August 24, 2018.

127. Linoleum, Wikipedia, retrieved August 24, 2018.

128. “Divorce is asked by HP M’Kean,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 1913 page 2, column 5, retrieved August 30, 2018.

129. “John Notman: the Father of American Italianate Design,” PicturesqueItalianateArchitecture/blogspot.com, retrieved August 31, 2018.

130. “‘Fern Hill,” Henry Pratt McKean House, Germantown, PA  retrieved August 18, 2018.

131. Edwin C. Jellett, “A Flora of Germantown,” September 11, 1903. As originally published in the Germantown Independent Gazette, Awbury.org, retrieved August 18, 2018.

132. Ohrstrom Library Digital Archives, Ohrstromblog.com, retrieved August 31, 2018.

133. Carpenter, Louis Henry, “Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants: Comp” private circulation Dec 31, 1912, Google Books, retrieved August 31, 2018.

134. “Wharton Family Papers -Vol 708A” – Historical Society of Philadelphia – retrieved August 31, 2018.

135. Colbert, Patricia J “Historic Significance and Feasibility Study for The Reuse of the Penrose/Strawbridge Estate at Graeme Park Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania” The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Bureau of Historic Preservation December 7, 1997 (HPHA Library).

136. Fried, Stephen Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father, Crown Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8041-4006-5, New York, 2018.

137. “Appraisal – Premises, Welsh Strawbridge, County Line and Keith Roads Before and After Taking of Land for the USAF Facilities FY56, Naval Air Station Willow Grove,” HJ Dager (HJ and CJH Dager Realtors) to Thomas Raeburn White Jr Esq., Land Title Building, October 24, 1956.

138. “Graeme Park, An Historic Landscape Report and Management Plan. Phase One; Chronology of Land Acquisition,” Doell and Doell Garden Historians and Landscape Preservation Planners, Syracuse, NY, September 1986.

139. Letter from J. Freely Hunsinger (representing Margaret Strawbridge) to William J. Wewer, Executive Director, PMHC, November 17, 1980.

140. Kenderdine, Thaddeus Stevens Kenderdines of America, Doylestown Pub, Dec 31, 1901.

141. “Horsham Hearsay,” article in HPHA collection, author unknown, dated after 1973.

142. Living Places, Brewery Town retrieved October 9, 2018.

143. Virtual American Biographies – Sir William Keith retrieved April 29, 2019.

144. This information was available in 2014 but is not longer a valid website as of April 29, 2019.

145. Wikipedia, Charles Gookin, retrieved April 29, 2019. 

146. Preston, R. A. (1948). Sir William Keith’s Justification of a Stamp Duty in the Colonies, 1739–42. The Canadian Historical Review 29(2), 168-182. University of Toronto Press. Retrieved April 29, 2019, from Project MUSE database.

147. Lokken, Roy. N. (1963). Sir William Keith’s Theory of the British Empire. The Historian, Vol. 25, No. 4 (AUGUST, 1963), pp. 403-418 Wiley. Retrieved April 29, 2019, from Project MUSE database. 

148. Undiscovered Scotland, Sir William Keith, retrieved April 29, 2019.

149. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Philadelphia Vol I, edited by Edward Armstrong, McCarty and Davis, Philadelphia 1826 Google Books.

150. Norton, Mary Beth, Liberty’s Daughters – the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, Cornelll University Press, Ithaca and London, 1980 Google Books.

151. Wikipedia, Centennial Exposition, retrieved October 23, 2019.

152. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 16, 1988, page 115.

153. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 16, 1988, page 87.

154. Wikipedia, Wings Field, retrieved December 12, 2023.

155. Wikipedia, Kellett Autogiro Corporation, retrieved December 12, 2023.

156. Philadelphia Inquirer, August 29, 1977, page 11.

157. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 1977, page 77.

158. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1986, page 162.