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Posted 05/20/2011   4:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add philb to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Ok, some of you armchair internet detectives like to dig up information on names found on covers..gee the envelopes were smaller in those days...anyway from June 27 1887 heres a letter from Washington D.C. to Mr. B. the Principal of the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem Pa. I will see what I can dig up !!

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Posted 05/20/2011   4:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add philb to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ok, so far I have read about a scandal at the Moravian seminary for girls....Rev. Blickensderfer told 7 young ladies they would not graduate because they flirted with boys from LeHigh University !
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Posted 05/20/2011   4:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add philb to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Smauggie..thats a good one on the school itself..how about the good Reverend ?
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Posted 05/20/2011   5:03 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
His first name was Jesse, and he was born in Tuscarawas, Ohio, in 1843. He had at least two daughters, Grace (1872) and Esther (1874), and at least three sons, Francis (1877), Jesse (1882), and Robert (1885).
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Posted 05/20/2011   5:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is probably what you're looking for:



...and this is from a 1909 publication:


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Jesse Blickensderfer, born October 26, 1843, at Sharon, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio educated at Ohio schools and the Moravian College and Theological Seminary; 1870-73, Pastor at Graceham, Md.; 1873-76, Secretary of Publications and Editor of The Moravian; 1876-79, Pastor at York, Pa.; 1879-81, Principal of Young Ladies' Seminary at Hope, Indiana; 1881-93, Principal of the Young Ladies' Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa.; 1888-93, Member of Provincial Elders' Conference; 1893-97, Professor in the Moravian College and Theological Seminary; 1897-99, Pastor at Macedonia, Mo.; at present in retirement at Oxford, Ohio.
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Posted 05/20/2011   6:52 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


100 years time on SCF.......

"Ok, some of you armchair internet detectives like to dig up information on names found on covers..
what about this Philb from Red hook, New York......"


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Posted 05/20/2011   7:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
what about this Philb from Red hook, New York......



Quote:
Meeting City: Red Hook
Stamptrotters Society of Kingston
Meeting Time and Location: 7:30 p.m., 2nd & 4th Thurs., Except Nov. & Dec. Red Hook VFW,


... Want anymore you can always look it up! In the interest of SCF confidentiality, I won't post the address.

Actually, I prefer looking up the century-old covers because the personalities involved are no longer living and I don't feel as though I'm intruding on any personal information.
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Posted 05/20/2011   7:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add philb to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They got me !! thats a nice article on the Reverand..nice looking fellow !!
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Posted 05/20/2011   8:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add philb to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
What excellent responses...what I love about covers is that I can "feel" the history...i feel some connection with the person who wrote it or received it before I was born...am I a psychic or extra sensative or just a history buff ???
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