Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . C.; Mr. Ethan Allen Weaver,of Germantown, Pennsylvania; Reverend Dr. William , of Auburn, New York, and Mr. A. K. Hostetter,of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for giving me Important Infor-mation about some of the early newspapers and their edi-tors, and to Dr. George C. Keldel, of Washington, D. C,for helpful suggestions about the arrangement of variousparts of the monograph. I owe a special debt of gratitudeto Dr. Albert Bernhardt Faust, of Cornell Universit
Social conditions among the Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth century, as revealed in the German newspapers published in America . C.; Mr. Ethan Allen Weaver,of Germantown, Pennsylvania; Reverend Dr. William , of Auburn, New York, and Mr. A. K. Hostetter,of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for giving me Important Infor-mation about some of the early newspapers and their edi-tors, and to Dr. George C. Keldel, of Washington, D. C,for helpful suggestions about the arrangement of variousparts of the monograph. I owe a special debt of gratitudeto Dr. Albert Bernhardt Faust, of Cornell University,who, as mentioned above, first suggested this subject tome, for his Inspiring guidance and sympathetic Carl Becker, of Cornell University, gave me thebenefit of his searching and constructive criticism. R. Pope, of Cornell, carefully reviewed the manu-script and gave me many valuable criticisms while I wasrevising the first draft. Finally, I want to thank the manyfriends, unnamed but unforgettable, who have kindly an-swered my letters of inquiry. James O. Knauss. Cornell University,February 22, CHAPTER I. THE NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR PUBLISHERS, ^^HE German Americans of the eighteenth century,^^ whose descendants of the present day are generallyknown as Pennsylvania Germans, published a creditablenumber of newspapers. It has been definitely establishedthat a total of thirty-eight^ German newspapers existed atvarious times between 1732 and the end of the , it is probable that even more were published, sincesome of the less important ones, which were in existencefor only a very brief period, may have vanished withoutleaving any traces. I have been able to locate copies and reprints of twenty-five of the eighteenth century German American papers,but only very few copies of many of these twenty-fivepapers have been preserved. In fact, most of the materialfor this monograph has been drawn from six leading jour-nals, of which, fortunately,
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