Stem House
Bush Building (left) and Old Lutheran Parsonage (right)
[Photo by Richard F. Hope]
Old Lutheran Parsonage (168-78 Northampton Street, recently ERS
Employment Services).
Small 2-1/2-story brickote facade house. The modern brickote
covers at least some stone walls.
The Old Parsonage
In 1783, “the four combined Lutheran congregations” of Easton,
Dryland, Plainfield and Greenwich erected a stone building at this
location “as a home for their pastor”, Charles Salomon Friderici
(also listed as M. Solomon Frederici or Fredericki). Both Easton
Historian William J. Heller and Lutheran Church historians record
that this stone building was still standing in the early 20th
Century. The old stone walls that lie under the brickote on the
building at this location today are, therefore, presumably the
remains of the same Lutheran Parsonage built in 1783. In the
mid-20th Century, Mrs. “Georgie” Chidsey specifically identified
“the little old stone building” on the SE corner of Northampton and
2nd Streets (then holding “Asam’s wall paper” store – see below) as
being a pastor’s home “built about 1790”.
Pastor Frederici served from 1782 until 1798. His long tenure
stands in contrast to his immediate predecessor, Rev. John
Frederick Ernst, who served only from the end of 1780 until 1782.
The more inflexible and unpopular Ernst had been forced to resign
when a majority of the congregation refused to honor the Reverend’s
demands that they fire and excommunicate the popular organist and
schoolmaster, Philip Helick, who had adopted and sexually fondled
one of his teenage Sunday school students. Despite serving several
congregations in addition to Easton, Rev. Ernst was apparently in
constant need of additional money to live.
By contrast his successor, Pastor Frederici, was on a very
different footing. He was never officially ordained prior to being
elected pastor at Easton. He had come to America in 1777 (at age
27) with the Hessian troops during the Revolution, “without any
call” (i.e. not as a minister), and had later deserted from the
army. He then started preaching “in the region above Albany”, but
was “driven out by the Indians and English”, and “arrived in Easton
on his way to Philadelphia” in 1780 where he was asked to preach a
sermon. Apparently, many members of the congregation liked what
they heard, because they ultimately asked Frederici to replace
Ernst in 1782. At a synod held in Lancaster on 3-4 June 1782, Rev.
Ernst reported “that he had been forced to give up the congregation
at Eastown since the members of that congregation had taken a
vagabond as pastor.” In a letter the following year, Rev. Ernst
expressed concern that the lack of Lutheran ministers in New Jersey
might leave “all of Morris and Hunterdon Counties . . . without a
preacher and consequently everything would be open for Friderici
and other freebooters.” As late as 1787, Rev. Ernst wrote a letter
to the Lutheran Ministerium complaining that Pastor Frederici was
not property conducting his office in Easton. Ernst’s letter
somehow came into Frederici’s possession, who sued for defamation.
After dragging on for years, the case was finally settled in
1791.
The new parsonage built by the Lutheran congregation may have
given Pastor Frederici an easier financial berth than his
predecessor had had, although a small residence had also been
provided to Rev. Ernst. Pastor Frederici also informally fenced-in
an additional two Lots of land along Northampton Street nearer the
Delaware River, popularly called “Molasses Hollow”. One might
speculate that Pastor Frederici used this “Molasses Hollow” swamp
land to keep pigs, in good German fashion. No doubt Rev. Ernst
would have regarded as consistent with his opinion of “Freebooter”
Frederici, the Pastor’s unauthorized (and uncompensated) use of the
two fenced-in Lots of land farther East from the parsonage along
Northampton Street that the Penn Family had not sold to anyone,
although many other prominent citizens in Easton also occupied Penn
land without permission at that time, paying for it grudgingly in
1789 and thereafter after being accosted by the Penn Family’s
agents.
As noted above, Rev. Frederici’s pastorship in Easton ended in
1798. The reason for this (his death, or appointment elsewhere) has
not been discovered. The Lutherans did not formally purchase their
Parsonnage Property from John and Richard Penn until 1810, when
they paid $46.89 for it.
· They did not formally purchase the Lots on which Union Church
and school themselves were built, until called to account by the
Penn Family’s agent in about the year 1790; and even then the
purchase was not made until 1802, for a token $10 sale price.
In 1817, the Lutherans divided the front portion of the Lot at
Northampton Street and sold it to different buyers. The deed
selling the corner portion of the lot to Jon O’Neil confirmed that
it, indeed, was the “Lot or Piece of Ground whereon is erected the
Parsonage”.
· The rear (South) of the property began behind a twelve-foot
“private alley”, which is apparently the alley known as Bush Court
today. The Lutherans continued to sell the remaining pieces of
their property until at least 1830, and used the proceeds of their
land sales to build their new, separate St. John’s Church in Ferry
Street in 1831.
Samuel Yohe
Jon O’Neil (also spelled John O. Neill and Oneill) lost the
parsonnage property at the corner in an 1820 Sheriff’s sale to John
Yohe for debt owed to the Lutheran Congregation. Yohe’s son Samuel,
inherited the property. Samuel Yohe (1805 – 1880) had begun to work
in his father’s store at age 14 (i.e. in about 1819). The family
moved to Lower Mt. Bethel Township in 1821, and John Yohe died at
age 42 before his son Samuel reached his majority (i.e. by 1824).
In 1825, the family returned to Easton. Two years later (in 1827),
young Samuel Yohe opened a general store in his father’s Easton
property, one month after his first marriage to Maria Heller. His
father-in-law, Jacob Heller, subsequently died leaving him a mill
on the Bushkill in Forks Township. Samuel Yohe “improved and
beautified the [mill] grounds and building until it became one of
the finest places on the Bushkill.” Yohe also operated a
distillery. In 1836, Yohe was appointed Prothonotary of Northampton
County for three years. In 1839, he was appointed an Associate
Judge, also for three years. In 1848, he was elected County
Treasurer. He also sat on Easton’s Town Council for “a number of
years”, at one point acting as its President. For many years, Yohe
commanded the private military company in Easton known as the
Washington Grays, which engaged in a friendly rivalry with a
competing company known as the Easton Fencibles under the command
of Andrew Reeder. A newspaper commented in 1845 that “Captain Yohe,
when in uniform, is a perfect beau-ideal of an officer, one that
Napoleon, or Frederick the Great, at first sight would have stamped
as such – and better than all he is as good as he looks.” After
many of the militarily-inclined men in town were recruited for he
Mexican War in 1847, Yohe (as Captain) formed a new military
company the following year known as the “National Guards”, which
came to be considered to be “one of the finest military companies
in the State.”
Captain Yohe lost his property at the corner of Northampton and
2nd Street in a Sheriff’s sale in 1850 to Jonathan Durling.
In 1861 when the Civil War started with the attack on Fort
Sumter in South Carolina, Samuel Yohe directed a war meeting at the
Courthouse in Centre Square (at which Judge Henry Maxwell was a
principal speaker). He quickly enlisted a company for service
against the seceding states – one of four companies raised in
Easton at that early time. Yohe’s company became Company C in the
1st Pennsylvania Regiment. Yohe was then elected as Colonel of this
Regiment (and replaced as Captain of Company C by William
Armstrong, his near neighbor on North 3rd Street). The 1st Regiment
was issued arms and about 12 rounds of ammunition per man, and
initially ordered to re-establish communications between
Pennsylvania and the national capitol at Washington, D.C. in the
face of resistance by Maryland citizens. This assignment apparently
provoked the later reminiscence that the Regiment, “without
available arms, ammunition, without uniforms, cartridge boxes, or
supplies, [was] forwarded to the fields of Maryland to protect,
with nothing, the railroads and bridges.”
The Regiment was then withdrawn, “upon the representation of
leading public men of Maryland, that a military occupation, and a
resort to violent measures, . . . might precipitate a collision,
and lead to a secession of the state”. However, acting pursuant to
orders from his commanding General emanating ultimately from the
White House, Col. Yohe ordered his men to arrest certain southern
sympathizers in Baltimore. These included John Merryman, who was
then held without trial by military authorities at Fort McHenry in
defiance of a habeas corpus writ issued by U.S. Chief Justice Roger
Taney. The military’s disregard of the court order – on authority
from President Lincoln – provoked Taney’s landmark decision denying
President Lincoln’s power to suspend the writ. Taney’s decision
that was simply ignored by the military, while Lincoln responded
with an order to arrest the Chief Justice (which no federal marshal
would actually serve), and continued to order further political
arrests and imprisonments for two years on his own authority until
he could get a Congressional vote formal suspending citizens’
rights to habeas corpus. However, Taney’s opinion remains a viable
legal precedent, and was recently cited in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the
2004 opinion that upheld the habeas corpus right of a U.S. citizen
held without trial in Guantanamo Bay as an “illegal enemy
combatant” after being captured in Afghanistan. (Hamdi claimed to
have been a relief worker captured by mistake.)
The 1st Pennsylvania Regiment was issued then ordered to
maneuver in response to an expected Confederate invasion that did
not materialize at that time. The Regiment’s mission was later
(somewhat hyperbolically) described as follows: “without available
arms, ammunition, without uniforms, cartridge boxes, or supplies,
they were forwarded to the fields of Maryland to protect, with
nothing, the railroads and bridges.” It received property equipment
“late in May”, and marched along the Potomac River in Maryland and
Virginia pursuing “the rumored movements of the Rebels.” It never
received orders to assemble for the Battle of Bull Run. In the end,
the 1st Regiment served out its three month enlistment without
being called into any major combat, and returned to Easton.
Samuel Yohe’s first wife, Maria Heller, died in 1862. In May
1863, Yohe was appointed the Provost Marshall of the 11th District
of Pennsylvania, charged with enforcing the draft of men into the
Union Army. He continued this unpopular duty until April 1865, and
was one of the last two such offices closed. During that time (in
1864), he married his second wife, who came from Philadelphia. Yohe
moved to Philadelphia in 1866, after his duty as Provost Marshall
was done. By 1867, he was looking to sell his distillery on the
Bushkill. The Argus newspaper (which supported the Democratic
party) jeered that the “heavy tax on whisky . . . has used them
up.” This tax was used to support Republic policies and pay for the
Civil War, which the Argus had opposed. Unfortunately, this
attempted sale appears to have come to nothing when Yohe’s Bushkill
mill (which included the distillery in the complex) burned down in
1868.
· That mill was later rebuilt by Jacob Walter, and operated as
Bushkill Mill #2 “into the 1870’s and 1880’s”.
Meanwhile, Samuel Yohe found a new occupation to earn a living,
by conducting a banking and brokerage office in Easton in
connection with his partner, E.A. Depew. Yohe retired in 1877, and
died in Philadelphia in 1880, and is buried in Easton Cemetery Plot
N-161.
Subsequent History
Jonathan Durling, in turn lost the Old Lutheran Parsonage
property in a Sheriff’s sale to Amos Seip in 1856, at which time
the building was described as “a two Story dwelling House, part
Stone, part brick and part frame, Stone part measuring twenty seven
feet and a half by Thirty feet and a half, Brick part Twenty Nine
and a half feet by Eighteen feet and Frame part Twenty nine feet by
Twelve feet.” The property was then sold normally to Joseph Weill,
whose estate lost the property in yet another Sheriff’s sale in
1870 to Nathan Herrmann. In that transaction, the property
description had been slightly modified to a “two story stone
dwelling house 27 feet front on Northampton Street by 30 feed deep
with part brick and part frame building attached 20 by 30 feet”. In
addition, a “Store House” – later remodeled into a dwelling – and
stable were added to the rear of the property, and the dwelling
house was later rented out.
In two months, Nathan Herrmann resold the property to Samuel
Stem, who moved his grocery and residence to this corner building.
In 1874, Stem was assigned No.170 Northampton Street when the
modern street numbering scheme was adopted in 1874. The Stem family
residence was in the back, at the property now numbered 8 South 2nd
Street. Stem himself was a Civil War veteran, having served with
Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Regiment. That Regiment was
initially “accompanied by an excellent brass band, under the
leadership of Thomas Coates”, and many members of his Easton Band.
It was stationed primarily at Key West, Florida and Hilton Head,
South Carolina, and participated in battles at Pocotaligo Bridge,
SC (noted on the Easton Monument) and Sabine Cross Roads,
Louisiana. Stem himself was wounded in the left shoulder at
Pocotaligo, one of the battles that would ultimately be listed on
the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Easton’s Centre Square.
Stem’s widow sold the property in 1878 to Bernard McGovern, a
contractor who moved into the Stem’s residence in the rear of the
old Parsonage building. Barney McGovern (presumably a son) lived
briefly in the main part of the Parsonage building at the
corner.
In 1907, The McGovern Family sold the property to Solomon R.
Bush and James V. Bull (the founders of the Bush and Bull
Department Store), who also purchased the Bush Building next door
(to the East) in the same year from the estate of William Bush.
They, or their store, held title to the property for many years.
After the death of the two Bush and Bull founders, James Bush’s son
(F. Royce Bush) ultimately acquired complete ownership of both
properties, and sold them (together with the Mebus Building next
door to the East) in 1944 to the Miller Family. The Millers (of the
Miller Brothers Hardware Company) retained ownership until
1979.
· In 1957, the ASAM Wallpaper & Paint Store occupied this
building, as well as the first floor of the one next door.
The purchasers in 1979 were Joseph Milutis and his wife. Milutis
sold the properties in 1991 to Larry Keiper and a partner; Keiper
acquired sole ownership in 1999. Keiper is a proprietor of Aura
Ceramics at 12 South 2nd Street, whose store is now included in the
property, located between the Old Lutheran Parsonage and the house
in the rear at 18 South 2nd Street.
� For tax records purposes (apparently because of common
ownership), this parcel includes 164-66 Northampton St.
� Interview with Larry Keiper (owner) at Aura Ceramics (6 Sept.
2007).
� Per Church Record quoted in Rev. Franklin K. Fretz (Pastor,
apparently for the 175th Anniversary Committee), Historical Sketch
of St. John’s Lutheran Church 16-17 (1915) and Barbara Fretz
Kempton, A History of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation
of Easton, Pennsylvania 1740-1940 27-28 (The John S. Correll Co.,
Inc. 1940). Ms. Kempton (at 29) specifically identifies the
location as “the south east corner of Second and Northampton
Streets”. Accord, William J. Heller, Historic Easton From the
Window of a Trolley-Car 150 (The Express Printing Co., Inc., 1912,
reprinted by Genealogical Researchers, 1984).
Ethan Allen Weaver, “Historical Sketches Relating to Easton and
Eastonians No.II”, Historical Notes First Series 5 (copied in
Easton Public Library June 1936) transcribes a curious footnote by
“HSS” under text that refers to the SE corner of Northampton and
Sitgreaves Streets. The note reads “(Lutheran Congregation erected
its Parsonage on this corner in 1787 – still standing. – HSS
1934)”. This note is inconsistent with the text, which states that
this corner was “the site of the late Governor Reeder’s residence”.
It appears likely that “HSS” mistook Sitgreaves Street, and should
have referred to the SE corner of Northampton and Second
Street.
� William J. Heller, Historic Easton From the Window of a
Trolley-Car 150 (The Express Printing Co., Inc., 1912, reprinted by
Genealogical Researchers, 1984)(Heller dates the construction to
“About 1790”); Edith von Zemenszky & Mary A. Redline, A
Strasbourger In America: John Frederick Ernst Minister of the
Gospel, Lutheran Denomination (1745-1805) 80 (Seaber Turner
Associates 2007)(Lutheran parsonage built for Charles Salomon
Friderici, Ernst’s successor in Easton); Barbara Fretz Kempton, A
History of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton,
Pennsylvania 1740 – 1940 27 (Easton: The John S. Correll Co., Inc.
1940)(parsonage built during the “ministration” of Rev. M. Solomon
Fredericki from 1782-98).
� Barbara Fretz Kempton, A History of St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1940 27-28,
266 (Easton: The John S. Correll Co., Inc. 1940).
� Heller, Historic Easton from the Window of a Trolley-Car,
supra (1911); Fretz, Historical Sketch of St. John’s Lutheran
Church, supra at 17.
� The owner, Larry C. Keiper (of Aura Ceramics), has confirmed
that stone construction lies underneath the brickote, at least in
the rear of the corner building.
� Georgie Lake Chidsey, “And This I Remember”, in Fortnightly
Club, II Papers on Easton History 240, at 243 (paper read 2 Mar.
1951).
� Barbara Fretz Kempton, A History of St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1940 27, 266
(Easton: The John S. Correll Co., Inc. 1940).
� For example, Rev. Ernst had, for example, rebuked the son of
an important Easton citizen in confirmation class for “dancing the
whole night” at a wedding celebration, allegedly calling the
student an “imp of Satan”. Ernst was later confronted by the irate
father, who “cursed me into hell” because “A Christian dance is not
sin at a respectable wedding.” The family did not come back to
church after the incident. See Letter of John Frederic Ernst to
J.C. Kunze (8 May 1781), translated and printed in Zemenszky &
Redline, A Strasbourger In America, supra at 147.
� Edith von Zemenszky & Mary A. Redline, A Strasbourger In
America: John Frederick Ernst Minister of the Gospel, Lutheran
Denomination (1745-1805) 211-12, 222-24, 228-29 (Blandon (PA):
Seaber Turner Associates 2007).
� Edith von Zemenszky & Mary A. Redline, A Strasbourger In
America: John Frederick Ernst Minister of the Gospel, Lutheran
Denomination (1745-1805) 126-27, 187, 204-05 (Blandon (PA): Seaber
Turner Associates 2007).
� Zemenszky & Redline, A Strasbourger In America, supra at
430.
� H.M. Muhlenberg record of personnel notes from “Squire
Reichardt” (18 Sept. 1780), translated and printed in Zemenszky
& Redline, A Strasbourger In America, supra at 53; accord,
Clifford Neal Smith, Mercenaries from Hessen-Hanau Who Remained in
Canada and the United States after the American Revolution 5
(DeKalb IL: German-American Genealogical Research Monograph,
Westland Publications 1976)(information available in
ancestry.com).
� See Letter from John Frederick Ernst to J.C. Kunze (4 July
1782), translated and printed in Zemenszky & Redline, A
Strasbourger In America, supra at 263.
� Barbara Fretz Kempton, A History of St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1940 27
(Easton: The John S. Correll Co., Inc. 1940).
� Letter from John Frederick Ernst to J.C. Kunze (18 Aug. 1783),
translated and printed in Zemenszky & Redline, A Strasbourger
In America, supra at 320.
� Zemenszky & Redline, A Strasbourger In America, supra at
430-31.
� See Zemenszky & Redline, A Strasbourger In America, supra
at 244 (“The Ernst family [in April 1782] still lived in the same
small house, which the congregation had provided for the new pastor
about a year ago.”). The Lutherans had acquired a property for
their pastor in 1763, but it did not appear on a map of 1776. Ernst
complained in a letter in 1781 that his accommodation had not “even
a small study room”. Zemenszky & Redline, A Strasbourger In
America, supra at 80.
� Charles de Krafft, Map of Easton Original Town Lots (from
collection of Luigi Ferone, said to have been used by Penn agents
to manage town lots c.1779-1800)(Lot Nos.11 and 12 noted: “Vacant –
applied [in] by M. Frederitzi, who has it in Fence.”); accord,
Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to Jacob
Mixsell, G1 453 (4 Dec. 1789)(regarding original town Lot Nos.10
and 138, which recites that Lot No.11 was in “Terre Tenure” of
“Frederici”).
� Frank Whelan, “When Hotels Were Grand – The Hotel Easton Has a
Proud Heritage on Which to Base Its Renovation – The Way It Was”,
Morning Call, Sun., 13 Aug. 2000, p.E-1.
� Charles de Krafft, Map of Easton Original Town Lots (from
collection of Luigi Ferone, said to have been used by Penn agents
to manage town lots c.1779-1800)(Lot Nos.11 and 12 noted: “Vacant –
applied [in] by M. Frederitzi, who has it in Fence.”); accord,
Deed, John Penn the Younger and John Penn the Elder to Jacob
Mixsell, G1 453 (4 Dec. 1789)(regarding original town Lot Nos.10
and 138, which recites that Lot No.11 was in “Terre Tenure” of
“Frederici”).
� After a dearth of purchases during the Revolution, there is a
sudden increase in the number of formal land purchases from the
Penn Family, starting in 1789. See, e.g., 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).
The Revolutionary government of Pennsylvania’s Divestment Act of
1779, 1 Dall St. Laws 822 (1779), had seized approximately 24
million acres of unsold land from the Penn Family, and left the
Family with only the ownership of the private estates and
proprietary manors that had been surveyed before 4 July 1776. The
Act’s £130,000 settlement payment to the Penn Family was actually
paid in installments from 1786 until 1789. With the completion of
these payments in 1789, the Penn Family apparently made a push to
collect outstanding quit rent obligations (or sell the quit rents
obligation off), and sell its unpatented lots. See Lorett Treese,
The Storm Gathering – The Penn Family and the American Revolution
189-91, 196-97 (University Park (PA): The Pennsylvania State
University Press 1992); cf. William J. Heller, Historic Easton from
the Window of a Trolley-Car 117-18 (Express Printing Co. and
Harmony Press, 1911, reprinted 1984)(Penn Family attorney came
“About the year 1790”).
� Barbara Fretz Kempton, A History of St. John’s Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton, Pennsylvania 1740 – 1940 27, 266
(Easton: The John S. Correll Co., Inc. 1940).
� John and Richard Penn to German Evangelical Lutheran
Congregation of Easton, G3 261 (15 Oct. 1810)(sale price $46.89 for
original town Lot No.9, which includes the Bush Building property
next door). The 1817 conveyances of each half of this Town Lot
incorrectly cite the Penn Deed to Deed Book G Vol.2, instead of
Vol.3. See Deed, German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton
to George Bush, C4 278 (1 April 1817); Deed, German Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton to John O’Neil, C4 181 (1 Apr.
1817)(regarding Parsonage property at corner with Second
Street).
� Deed, John Penn and Richard Penn to Peter Snyder, et al.,
Trustees for German Reformed Congregation fo Easton, and Jacob
Weygandt, et al., Trustees for Lutheran Congregation of Easton, G2
402 (23 June 1802)($10 sale price); William J. Heller, Historic
Easton from the Window of a Trolley-Car 117-18 (Express Printing
Co. and Harmony Press, 1911, reprinted 1984).
� Deed, German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton to
Jon O’Neil, C4 181 (1 April 1817)(containing a “Stone Messuage and
Lot), at the SE corner of Northampton and Fermor Streets; recites
that to the West is the lot sold to George Bush). See also Deed,
German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton to George Bush,
C4 278 (1 April 1817)(concerning the Bush Building property, but at
this time the Deed mentions only a “Lot or Piece of Ground”,
without mentioning any building on the property).
The corner portion of the lot was the one “whereon is erected
the Parsonage”.
� Compare Deed, German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of
Easton to Jon O’Neil, C4 181 (1 April 1817) and Deed, German
Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton to George Bush, C4 278
(1 April 1817)(concerning the Bush Building property) with
Northampton County Tax Records map, www.ncpub.org.
In addition, two more plots of land in Fermor (now Second)
Street were sold to William Bagle. See Rev. Franklin K. Fretz
(Pastor, apparently for the 175th Anniversary Committee),
Historical Sketch of St. John’s Lutheran Church 22 (1915).
� Deed, The German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Easton
to William Nagle, F9 595 (1 Apr. 1830)(a portion of the property
that eventually became the Nagle Building at 24-28 South 2nd
Street).
� Rev. Franklin K. Fretz (Pastor, apparently for the 175th
Anniversary Committee), Historical Sketch of St. John’s Lutheran
Church 22 (1915).
� Deed Poll, Daniel Raub, Sheriff, for John O’Neil, to John
Yohe, D4 437 (18 Jan. 1820)(sale price $2,368 to pay against a
judgment of $5,000 owed by O’Neil to the German Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation of Easton, probably for failing to pay for
the building; property measured 30’ on Northampton Street X 144’ on
Fermor Street); accord, Deed Poll, Daniel Raub, Sheriff, for John
Oneill, to John Yohe, Sheriff A2½ 139 (18 Jan. 1820)(recording the
same transaction); see Deed Poll, John Yohe, Assignee of John
Oneill, vs. Jonathan Lick, Sheriff 1½ 59 (17 June 1824: date from
Index)(Sheriff J. Carey Jr. recording result of litigation
resulting in $900 payment by Yohe for Lick’s interest in 24’ X 120’
property at the corner ).
� See Deed, Samuel (Maria) Yohe by Sheriff to Jonathan Durling,
B8 73 (2 Jan. 1850)(reciting that Samuel Yohe had inherited the
property from his father, John Yohe).
Samuel Yohe may have been the great-grandson of Adam Yohe, “one
of the original settlers of Easton”. See Record Book of Christ
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, Pennsylvania (Easton Public
Library Code B) 140 (copied in Easton Public Library May
1936)(death notice of Sarah Houck, last member of Adam Yohe’s
family, who died of dropsy on 29 May 1855); see also Rev. Uzal W.
Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 17 (George W. West 1885 /
1889)(Adam Yohe contributed £1 towards the building of the
schoolhouse in 1755).
Adam Yohe became the innkeeper of the Red Lion Inn, the
forerunner of the modern Hotel Lafayette, at the NE corner of
Northampton and Hamilton (now 4th) Streets. See, e.g., A.D.
Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier Village 69, 234-35, 239-40 (Vol. III of
Publications of The Northampton County Historical &
Genealogical Society 1940); separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry
for 11 North 4th Street.
Adam Yohe “disposed” of that property in 1760. A.D. Chidsey,
Jr., A Frontier Village 239-40 (Vol. III of Publications of The
Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society 1940).
In 1772, Adam Yohe purchased the hotel on the opposite (SW)
corner, where the Northampton National Bank Building now stands at
400 Northampton Street. In 1783, he sold this to his son, Adam Yohe
Jr., who took over its operation. A.D. Chidsey, Jr., A Frontier
Village 246 (Vol. III of Publications of The Northampton County
Historical & Genealogical Society 1940); see separate
www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 400 Northampton Street; see also
Peter Fritts, History of Northampton County 152 (1877, reprint by
Higginson Book Company)(by 1783 Adam Yohe Sr. died leaving the
hotel to his son Adam Yohe Jr.); see generally Rev. Uzal W. Condit,
The History of Easton, Penn’a 67, 144 (George W. West 1885 /
1889)(Adam Yohe Jr. became a tavern keeper; 1780 tax assessment
roll showed Adam Yohe Sr. with £380 and Adam Yohe Jr. with
£25).
John A. [Adam?] Yohe and Maria Elisabeth Yohe had a son,
Johannes [i.e. John], born 27 Jan. 1783 and baptized 9 Mar. 1873.
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Parish Records of the
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, PA (Easton Public
Library Reference G) 10 (date stamp 29 Apr. 1980). We discover
below that John Yohe, the father of Samuel Yohe, died at age 42,
before his son reached his majority (i.e. age 21) in 1824.
Consequently, that John Yohe was born in approximately 1792 or
1793, supporting this identification. See Frank B. Copp,
Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 35
(Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
John Yohe was the father of Samuel Yohe, born 15 April 1805.
Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent
Citizens 35 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; see St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation,
Parish Records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton,
PA (Easton Public Library Reference G) 56 (date stamp 29 Apr.
1980)(Samuel Yohe born 15 April 1805 to Johan and Rebecka
Yohe).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 35 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of
Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36 (Easton: Hilburn & West
1879)(opened the store in April 1827).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; see Article, “Fire at Col. Yohe’s large mill on
Bushkill”, Easton Express, Fri., 10 Jan. 1868, p.1, cols. 4-5;
Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent
Citizens 35 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879)(Samuel Yohe took
possession after his “father’s” death – 19th Century usage did not
always clearly discriminate between a father and a father-in-law);
see also Article, “Fire – Destruction of Yohe’s Mill on the
Bushkill”, Easton Argus, Thurs., 16 Jan. 1868, p.2, col.4. The mill
that burned down in 1868 was in Forks Township. See James Wright,
History of Forks Township Northampton County, Pennsylvania 74
(1991)(Samuel Yohe operated this mill in the 1860s, but it burned
down around 1863); accord, James A. Wright, History of Palmer 61
(Palmer Township Historical Society 1984)(burned down around 1867).
Wright indicates that this was the mill that had earlier been
operated by Jacob Arndt, located “at the old falls at Bushkill
Park”). Wright does not mention Jacob Heller. See generally Rev.
Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 84-85 (George W. West
1885 / 1889)(discussing the Arndt mill).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 36 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 83 (George
W. West 1885 / 1889).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of
Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36-37 (Easton: Hilburn & West
1879). Copp also recorded (at 39) that Samuel Yohe had commanded
the Washington Grays military unit before he took the National
Guards.
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� See Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 212
(George W. West 1885 / 1889).
� Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 212 (George
W. West 1885 / 1889), quoting The Home Journal and Citizen Soldier,
May, 1845.
� See Recruiting Notice, Easton Democrat & Argus, Thurs., 14
Jan. 1847, p.2, col.3. Rev. Condit’s history indicates that the
Easton National Guards became the only military unit in town. Rev.
Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 214-15 (George W.
West 1885 / 1889).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3 (formed in 1849); Frank B. Copp, Biographical
Sketches of Some of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 36-37 (Easton:
Hilburn & West 1879).
A contemporaneous newspaper article indicates that Yohe probably
actually took command of the National Guard in the latter part of
1848, when the unit was formed. See Article, “New Military Company,
Democrat & Argus, Thurs., 21 Sept. 1848, p.2, col.2 (“A new
military corps has been organized in our borough, of which Captain
Yohe is to take command.”).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 36-37 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879); see
also Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 208, 212
(George W. West 1885 / 1889).
� Deed, Samuel (Maria) Yohe by Sheriff to Jonathan Durling, B8
73 (2 Jan. 1850).
In the 1850s and ‘60s, Samuel Yohe’s residence was on North 3rd
Street. See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Parking
Lot at 56 North 3rd Street.
� Keith Carlin Clark (Lafayette College Student), Eastonians in
the Union Forces: First Pennsylvania Volunteers) 1 (typewritten
paper 1973)(Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library call no. 974.822
N11 C598e).
� Rev. Uzal W. Condit, The History of Easton, Penn’a 222 (George
W. West 1885 / 1889); see Michael C. Schrader, Bench and Bar, Vol.
V of Two Hundred Years of Life in Northampton County, PA. A
Bicentennial Review 93 (Northampton County Bicentennial Commission
1976).
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
13, 17 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); Obituary, “Colonel Samuel
Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3. See also
www.WalkingEaston.com entry for the Armstrong Homestead at 40 North
3rd Street.
The other three companies from Easton were:
Company D (Capt. Charles Heckman), which also left for
Harrisburg on 18 April with Yohe’s and Armstrong’s troops.
Company B (Capt. Jacob Dachrodt [Dachardt]), formed from the
Easton Citizens Artillary, which left two days later (on 20
April).
Company H (Capt. Ferdinand W. Bell), formed from the Easton
National Guard, whih also left on 20 April.
Keith Carlin Clark (Lafayette College Student), Eastonians in
the Union Forces: First Pennsylvania Volunteers) 6 (typewritten
paper 1973)(Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library call no. 974.822
N11 C598e).
In addition, the Easton Jaegers (Capt. Charles Glanz) left on 22
April to become Company G of the 9th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Clark, Eastonians in the Union Forces, supra at 8.
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
13 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3.
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
13 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869).
� Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D.Md 1861)(Taney, J.
acting as Circuit Judge). Col. Yohe’s involvement in Merryman’s
arrest was recounted in the court’s recital of General George
Cadwalader, refusing to obey Justice Taney’s habeas corpus
writ.
General Cadwalader specifically mentions that the two men who
brought Merryman in on Col. Yohe’s orders were “Adjutant James
Wittimore and Lieut. Wm. H. Abel”. According to Regimental records,
the 2nd Lieutenant of Company D of Col. Yohe’s regiment was William
H. Abel, and Col. Yohe’s Adjutant was James Miltimore (General
Cadwalader had it slightly misspelled). See Samuel P. Bates, I
History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5 16, 18 (P. Singerly,
State Printer 1869).
Special thanks to Mr. Rory Morgan for drawing the author’s
attention to this item.
� See, e.g., Patrick S. Poole, Ex Parte Merryman and President
Lincoln,
thomaslegion.net/presidentabrahamlincolnandexpartemerryman.html
(1994).
� See, e.g., Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “Lincoln’s ‘Great Crime’: The
Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice”,
thomaslegion.net/presidentabrahamlincolnandthechiefjustice.htm.
� See AbsoluteAstronomy.com (Encyclopedia), “Ex parte Merryman”,
www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ex_parte_Merryman (accessed 21
Aug. 2011).
� Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
14-15 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 37 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Keith Carlin Clark (Lafayette College Student), Eastonians in
the Union Forces: First Pennsylvania Volunteers) 1 (typewritten
paper 1973)(Marx Room, Easton Area Public Library call no. 974.822
N11 C598e); see Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania
Volunteers 1861-5 14 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869).
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
14-15 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); Obituary, “Colonel Samuel
Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3, col.3.
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of
Easton’s Prominent Citizens 38 (Easton: Hilburn & West
1879).
� Peggy Moser and Russ Dodge, “Col. Samuel Yohe”, in Easton
Cemetery Find A Grave Memorial # 15931685,
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Yohe&GSfn=Samuel&GSiman=1&GScid=44735&GRid=15931685&
(accessed 14 June 2011).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3.
� Record Book of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton,
Pennsylvania (Easton Public Library Code B) 113 (copied in Easton
Public Library May 1936)(Samuel Yohe of Easton married Carrie W.
Reeves of Philadelphia on 4 August 1864); accord, Obituary,
“Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July 1880, p.3,
col.3.
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3; see Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some
of Easton’s Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West
1879).
� Untitled item, Argus, Thurs., 29 Aug. 1867, p.2, col.6; see
Joan Steiner, The Bushkill Creek 30 (Bushkill Stream Conservancy
typewritten MS 1996).
� Article, “Fire at Col. Yohe’s large mill on Bushkill”, Easton
Express, Fri., 10 Jan. 1868, p.1, cols. 4-5; see also Article,
“Fire – Destruction of Yohe’s Mill on the Bushkill”, Easton Argus,
Thurs., 16 Jan. 1868, p.2, col.4.
� James Wright, History of Forks Township Northampton County,
Pennsylvania 74 (1991); see also D. G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton
County Pennsylvania 47 (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874, reprinted by
Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
1990)(Bushkill Mill No. 2).
� Frank B. Copp, Biographical Sketches of Some of Easton’s
Prominent Citizens 39 (Easton: Hilburn & West 1879).
� Obituary, “Colonel Samuel Yohe”, Easton Express, Tues., 6 July
1880, p.3, col.3.
� Peggy Moser and Russ Dodge, “Col. Samuel Yohe”, in Easton
Cemetery Find A Grave Memorial # 15931685,
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Yohe&GSfn=Samuel&GSiman=1&GScid=44735&GRid=15931685&
(accessed 14 June 2011).
� Deed, Jacob Cope, Sheriff, for Jonathan Durling, to Amos Seip,
Sheriff 2 244 (22 Jan. 1856); see Deed, Amos (Ann S.) Seip to
Joseph Weil, F11 185 (1 April 1865)(reciting that Seip had acquired
the property in a Sheriff’s Sale from Jonathan Durling).
� Deed, Amos (Ann S.) Seip to Joseph Weil, F11 185 (1 April
1865).
� Deed Poll, George W. Walton, Sheriff, for Abraham Steinfeld
and Joseph Weil trading under the firm of Steinfeld & Co., to
Nathan Herman, E13 1 (17 May 1870).
� See separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for 18 South 2nd
Street, and sources listed therein.
� Deed, Nathan Herrmann to Samuel Stem, B13 299 (19 July
1870).
� See D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan
of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874)(map showing “Sam’l Stem” in
the corner property); Jeremiah H. Lant, The Northampton County
Directory for 1873 120 (1873)(alphabetical listing for Samuel Stem
grocery and residence at “Northampton cor. S Second”).
Up to 1870, Stem’s grocery and residence had been located at 26
Northampton Street. Fitzgerald & Dillon (compilers), Easton
Directory for 1870-71 80 (M.J. Riegel 1870)(Samuel Stem, grocer and
residence at 26 Northampton Street); see also Talbot’s Lehigh
Valley Gazetteer and Business Directory 1864-65 29 (Press of
Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 1864)(same). Under the street numbering
scheme in effect prior to 1874, No.26 Northampton Street was not at
the corner of Second Street, but instead appears to have been
located in the eastern portion of what is now the Hotel Easton. The
western strip of that location was No.32 prior to 1874, while the
National Hotel next door was No.18 in the 1850s and ‘60s.
Compare:
In regard to the western strip of land later used for Hotel
Easton: D.G. Beers, Atlas of Northampton County Pennsylvania, Plan
of Easton (A. Pomeroy & Co. 1874)(Mrs. E. Otto); Jeremiah H.
Lant, The Northampton County Directory for 1873 65
(1873)(alphabetical listings for John B. Otto and Mrs. E. Otto);
1880 Census, Series T9, Roll 1161, p.373B (John B. Otto,
confectioner, son of Elmira Otto, keeping house). See separate
entry for 140 Northampton Street.
In regard to the National Hotel: C[harles] Kitchen, A General
Directory of the Borough of Easton PA (Cole & Eichman’s Office,
1855)(alphabetical listing for the National Hotel, Thomas Keller,
proprietor); William H. Boyd, Boyd’s Directory of Reading, Easton,
[Etc.] (William H. Boyd 1860)(business listing for Jacob
Williamson’s Hotel). See Buscemi, The Easton-Phillipsburg 1999
Calendar, supra (Jacob Williamson was the proprietor of the
National Hotel in 1860). See separate entry for 128 Northampton
Street.
� Article, “The New Numbers”, Easton Daily Free Press, Friday,
21 Nov. 1873, p.3; see Webb Bros. & Co., Webb’s Easton and
Phillipsburg Directory 1875-6 118 (M.J. Riegel 1875)(Samuel Stem,
grocer at 170 Northampton Street at the corner with Second Street,
residence at 8 South Second Street).
� Webb Bros. & Co., Webb’s Easton and Phillipsburg Directory
1875-6 118 (M.J. Riegel 1875)(Samuel Stem, grocer at 170
Northampton Street at the corner with Second Street, residence at 8
South Second Street).
By 1877, Samuel Stem Sr. is no longer listed in the Easton City
Directory, although Mrs. S. Stem’s residence is still listed at 8
South 2nd Street. J.H. Lant, Easton [Etc.] Directory for 1877 135
(M.J. Riegel 1877). The Samuel Stem Jr. who is listed in this
directory as a clerk, is not the same person – he had also appeared
in the 1875 directory as a separate entry from Samuel Stem and
grocer.
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
1174 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869)(Company E, 47th Pennsylvania
Regiment, mustered in 16 Sept. 1861, mustered out with the Company
25 Dec. 1865).
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
1150 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869). The band was discharged
from service in September 1862. Easton Municipal Band, The Easton
Municipal Band: History, www.eastonband.org/history/ (accessed 7
May 2011). See generally separate www.WalkingEaston.com entry for
the Mebus Building at 158 Northampton Street.
� Easton Municipal Band, The Easton Municipal Band: History,
www.eastonband.org/history/ (accessed 7 May 2011).
� Samuel P. Bates, I History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-5
1151-53 (P. Singerly, State Printer 1869); see Easton Municipal
Band, The Easton Municipal Band: History,
www.eastonband.org/History.htm (accessed 30 Apr. 2007)(stationed at
Hilton Head, SC and Key West, FL).
� Ethan Allen Weaver (1853-1929), I The Book Shelf Scrap Book of
Easton and Vicinity in the Civil War 20 (copied in Easton Public
Library 1936)(“Pokatalico”).
� Deed, Mrs. Samuel Stem to Bernard McGovern, F15 309 (3 July
1878)(widow of Samuel Stem); see also Deed, Bernard McGovern to
Margaret McGovern (his wife), E16 112 (20 March 1880)(recitals;
contained “two messuages”).
� J.H. Lant, Easton, [Etc,] Directory for 1879 114, 149 (M.J.
Riegel 1879)(B. McGovern, contractor, house at 8 South 2nd Street,
and Barney McGovern, house at 170 Northampton Street; Mrs. Samuel
Stem had moved her house to 737 Washington Street); J.H. Lant &
Son, Easton [Etc.] Directory 1881-2 79 (1881)(Barnet McGovern,
house at 170 Northampton Street, no mention of Bernard McGovern);
J.H. Lant, Easton [Etc.] Directory for 1883-4 95 (J.H. Lant
1883)(Bernard McGovern, contractor, house at 8 South 2nd Street, no
mention of Barney McGovern); J.H. Lant, Easton, Etc. Directory for
1884-5 94 (J.H. Lant 1884)(same); George W. West (compiler), West’s
Guide to Easton [Etc.] 95 (George W. West 1887)(same); George W.
West, West’s Guide to Easton [Etc.] 150 (George W. West 1889)(same;
also John C. McGovern at the same home address); George W. West
(compiler), West’s Directory of Easton [Etc.] 144 (George W. West
1892)(Bernard McGovern, contractor, house at 4 South 2nd
Street).
� Deed, John C. McGovern and Margaret T. McGovern to S.R. Bush
and James V. Bull, G36 499 (28 March 1907)(sale price $10,000;
recital that Margaret McGovern (Bernard McGovern’s wife) had died
leaving the property in 1905 to her children, John C. and Margaret
T. McGovern).
� See separate entries for Former Bush and Bull Department
Store, 301 Northampton Street, the Parking Lot, 201 Spring Garden
Street (former site of Solomon Royce Bush’s mansion), and the Bull
Mansion, 226 Bushkill Street.
� Deed, William H. Bush, Executor of the Will of William A.
Bush, to S.R. Bush and James V. Bull, G36 518 (22 March 1907). See
separate entry for the Bush Building, 164-66 Northampton
Street.
� The two partners conveyed the property to their partnership in
1927, but took it back again three years later. Deed, Solomon R.
(Susan A.) Bush and James V. (Mary A.) Bull to Bush & Bull
Company, D57 180 (26 March 1927); Deed, Bush & Bull Company to
Solomon R. Bush and James V. Bull, H62 437 (1 Nov. 1930).
� When Solomon Bush died on 18 September 1932, he left half
interests in the property each to his widow (Susan) and to his son
(F. Royce Bush). Widow Susan Bush left her interest to her son and
daughter, Susan Duryea, who in turn sold her 1/8 interest to her
brother, F. Royce Bush, leaving him with all of the family’s
half-interest in the property. See Deed, Martha Duryea to F. Royce
Bush, F68 338 (30 Mar. 1938); Deed, F. Royce Bush to Philip Miller
and Albert M. Miller, C76 64 (31 July 1944)(recitals).
When James Bull died, his executors transferred his half
interest to F. Royce Bull. Easton National Bank and William H.
Heil, Executors and Trustees of the Estate of James V. Bull, to F.
Royce Bush, C72 339 (21 Dec. 1938); see also Deed, F. Royce Bush to
Philip Miller and Albert M. Miller, C76 64 (31 July
1944)(recitals).
� Deed, F. Royce Bush to Philip Miller and Albert M. Miller, C76
64 (31 July 1944)(and recitals).
� See Deed, Phillip (Olive E.) Miller to Miller Brothers
Hardware Company, H89 189 (11 May 1950)(Purpart No.1 = SE corner of
Northampton and South 2nd Streets; Purpart No.2 = brick dwelling
house next door on Northampton Street, i.e. the Bush Building;
Purpart No.3 also includes an additional parcel of land in the rear
acquired at a Sheriff’s sale); Deed, Miller Brothers Hardward
Company to Joseph E. (Carol Ann) Milutis, 608 766 (20 Nov.
1979)(sale price $120,000 for many properties – see Parcel A No.1);
see also Deed, Joseph E. (Carol Ann) Milutis to Joseph E. Milutis,
698 612 (28 Mar. 1986)(Parcel No.5, Tract One, Nos.1, 2 and 3).
� Leonard S. Buscemi, Sr., Easton Remembered 54 (Buscemi
Enterprises 2007).
� Deed, Joseph E. Milutis to Jerry Policelli and Larry C.
Keiper, Co-Partners, 828 129 (30 Apr. 1991)(sale price
$276,000).
� Deed, Jerry Policelli, Co-Partner, to Larry C. Keiper,
1999-1-142697 (15 Sept. 1999)(sale of ½ interest).
� See Northampton County Tax Records, www.ncpub.org; and visit
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