PRINTER'S NO. 3440
No. 301 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY BUNT, APRIL 7, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, APRIL 7, 1992
A RESOLUTION
1 Honoring the Borough of Trappe in Montgomery County on the
2 celebration of the 275th Anniversary of the settlement of
3 Trappe.
4 WHEREAS, This year, the Borough of Trappe celebrates the
5 275th Anniversary of its settlement in 1717 by John Jacob
6 Schrack; and
7 WHEREAS, Trappe is also celebrating the 250th Anniversary of
8 the arrival of the Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the
9 father of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States;
10 and
11 WHEREAS, Reverend Muhlenberg's three sons have brought fame
12 to Trappe; and
13 WHEREAS, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg was a member of the
14 Continental Congress and the first Speaker of the United States
15 House of Representatives of the first United States Congress;
16 and
17 WHEREAS, Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was a member of the first
18 United States Congress, United States Senate and Collector of
1 the Port of Philadelphia; and
2 WHEREAS, Henry Ernst Muhlenberg was the first president of
3 what is now Franklin and Marshall College; and
4 WHEREAS, 1992 also marks the 250th Anniversary of St. Luke's
5 Reformed Church of Trappe founded by the Reverend John Philip
6 Boehm; and
7 WHEREAS, Trappe was the home of Francis Rahn Shunk, who was
8 Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1838 and Governor in 1844; and
9 WHEREAS, Lewis Royer, son of Judge Joseph Royer of Trappe,
10 represented Montgomery County as Senator in the General Assembly
11 of Pennsylvania in 1878; and
12 WHEREAS, The Uniform Tube Company, which ships its
13 manufactured products throughout the United States and abroad,
14 is located in Trappe; and
15 WHEREAS, The H-B Instrument Company also brings honor to
16 Trappe and Pennsylvania by being the nation's largest
17 manufacturer of thermometers, hydrometers, hygrometers, power
18 controls, tilt and tip switches and other measuring instruments
19 in the United States; therefore be it
20 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the Borough
21 of Trappe on the celebration of the 275th Anniversary of the
22 settlement of Trappe; and be it further
23 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
24 Charles E. Wismer, Chairman of the Committee on the 275th
25 Anniversary of the Settlement of Trappe, 235 West Seventh
26 Avenue, Trappe PA 19426.
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