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Thompson Westcott, the son of Charles and Hannah (Davis) Westcott, was born in Philadelphia, where his father was a hatter.
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Excerpt from The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants Pitch upon the very middle Of the plat, where the town or line Of houses is to be laid or run, facing the harbor in the great river, for the situation of my house; the distance Of each house from the creek or harbor should be in my judgment-a measured quarter Of a mile; at least two hundred paces, because Of budding hereafter streets downwards to the harbor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Mr. Thompson Westcott, the author, is perfectly at home on this subject, having written "The Guide Book to Philadelphia," and a history of the city. In the present volume, he has given a description of all the interesting historic buildings of the city, e.g. Penn’s Cottage, Swedes’ Church, Bartram’s House, Christ Church, Independence Hall, the Slate Roof House or Mount Pleasant, together with a notice of their owners and occupants.
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Thompson Westcott, the son of Charles and Hannah (Davis) Westcott, was born in Philadelphia, where his father was a hatter.
He received his early education in the English school conducted by the University of Pennsylvania.
About twelve entered the office of a Philadelphia conveyancer, Charles M. Page. He advanced so rapidly in his employer's service that when he was but seventeen he became a partner. Two years later he began to study law under Henry M. Phillips, and on November 10, 1841, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He continued in the conveyancing business for a short period, and then devoted himself to his law practice. Becoming interested in literary pursuits, he began to write humorous stories for the St. Louis Reveille, the Evening Mirror of New York, and the Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine. His stories were signed with the nom de plume "Joe Miller, Jr. ," and the only remuneration he received for writing them was the joy of seeing them in print. In 1846 he became law reporter for the Philadelphia Public Ledger and continued to serve as such until 1851. In May 1848, although he had seen several disastrous attempts at Sunday journalism in his native city, he undertook to edit the Sunday Dispatch. Its first number, which appeared May 14, 1848, contained only two advertisements, and the entire proceeds from its sales were twenty-eight cents. Westcott was the entire staff, and continued to do all of the editorial labor for several years. The Dispatch provoked earnest and influential opposition from those who objected to a newspaper being published on Sunday, but it was continued with increasing patronage, even though newsboys were arrested for selling it, and at the end of the first year it carried ten columns of advertisements, and was gaining in influence. While its strong, independent policy contributed to its success, Westcott made it of local interest, also, by a feature then new to journalism: he wrote for it several historical series that made it extremely valuable, and engaged other writers to contribute series of a similar nature. Foremost of Westcott's series was his "History of Philadelphia; from the Time of the First Settlements on the Delaware to the Consolidation of the City and Districts in 1854. " This series was begun January 6, 1867, and when the editor left the paper, April 26, 1884, he had brought the narrative down only to the year 1829. In addition to editing the Dispatch, he became, in 1863, an editorial writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, continuing as such until May 1869, during part of which period he also wrote for the Philadelphia Commercial List. He edited the Old Franklin Almanac from 1860 to 1872, and the Public Ledger Almanac from 1870 until within a year or two of his death. For a short time after leaving the Dispatch he was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Record. He died in Philadelphia.
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(Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary...)
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