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2 unusual facts about Schuylkill Fishing Company


Schuylkill Fishing Company

There were interesting ones of Governors Thomas Stretch and Samuel Morris, and several of the nineteenth century successors, as well as likenesses in oil of all nine Governors who served between 1896 and 1970.

The door onto the porch was flanked by a piano and by a tall case clock made by Peter Stretch about 1740, father of the Schuylkill Fishing Company's first Governor, Thomas Stretch, which had been donated by Governor William Fisher Lewis.


Peter Stretch

Peter’s son, Thomas Stretch, was also a man of note, being a clockmaker and the founding Governor of the Schuylkill Fishing Company.


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