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Excerpt from Memorial of John Augustus Smull His second son, john, born at Germantown, May 27 1798, married, in 1827, harriet pauli, daughter of Rev. Philip Reinhold Pauli and Anna Elizabeth Musch, of Reading. The family of Pauli is an ancient one. The first of the name of whom we have any record is that of Hans Pauli who was burgess of Schwerin about the middle of the sixteenth century. His son, Simon Pauli, was professor of theology and superintendent at Rostock, in Mecklenburg, in 1570, while in succes sive generations we have Henry of Rostock physician and first public teacher of medicine at Ros tock; Simon Pauli, a noted physician of Rostock, who married Elizabeth Fabricius, daughter of...
In Philadelphia’s Germans: From Colonial Settlers to Enemy Aliens, Richard N. Juliani examines the social, cultural, and political life, along with the ethnic consciousness, of Philadelphia’s Germans, from their participation in the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania to the entry of the United States into World War I. This book focuses on their paradoxical transformation from loyal citizens, who made great contributions as they became increasingly Americanized, to a people viewed as a foreign threat to the safety and security of the city and nation. It also considers the policies and treatment of government and views of the local press in reporting and interpreting the dilemma of German Americans during the transition.