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2 unusual facts about John George Hohman


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John George Hohman (also known as Johann Georg Hohman(n)), a German-American printer

John George Hohman

He immigrated to the USA from Germany in 1802, settled in the area around Reading, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, where he printed and sold broadsides, chapbooks and books and practised and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow.



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