History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . ace in the village. Charles Savage, the next to answer the clock and watch makersroll-call, came in 1834. He, also, called himself a silversmith, andopened in the frame on the sight of the Stuckert building, North Mainstreet, opposite the Fountain House. It will be remembered the Demo-crat was published in that building, 1835-36, and, in the winter of thelatter year, the building was burned with its contents—press, types,etc., and Savages clocks and watchs, and silverware all went up in
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . ace in the village. Charles Savage, the next to answer the clock and watch makersroll-call, came in 1834. He, also, called himself a silversmith, andopened in the frame on the sight of the Stuckert building, North Mainstreet, opposite the Fountain House. It will be remembered the Demo-crat was published in that building, 1835-36, and, in the winter of thelatter year, the building was burned with its contents—press, types,etc., and Savages clocks and watchs, and silverware all went up insmoke. In the spring, of 1834, Samuel Solliday opened a clock and watch-making shop in Mrs. Thompsons stone house, west side of North Mainstreet, between Hellyers and the Armstrong block. From there heremoved to the south side of East State street, site of Lehmansbutcher shop, and subsequently to New Hope where he died. The 3 At Painswick Hall, the residence of Nathaniel Shewell, Esq., March 6,1817, by the Rev. Uriah DuBois, William McHenry, to Miss Margaret Fell,daughter of the late Joseph Fell, OhOX in XH inCO DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 177 late Nathan C. James, Esq., many years president of the BucksCounty Bar Association, was one of SoUidays apprentices, an exampleof what energy and talent may do for a young man. Tradition, as well as record evidence, tells us that Joseph Fell wasone of the earliest blacksmiths at Doylestown—at least prior to, andand at the time of, the Revolution. His shop was at the southwestcorner of what afterward became the site of the Ross were doubtless earlier blacksmiths at the cross roads, but Fellsname is the first to come down to us. Of Fell we have spokengenerally in a previous chapter. Anthony Miller was a blacksmith here in 1814, having recentlybegun business. He advertised, in Minors Correspondent, someunprincipled villain for entering his smith shop and with a knifeor other instrument, had cut and nearly ruined his bel
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