The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 385
rgas, a plain German miller, ^^V^^f should build so elaborate and massive a man- H H sion in this secluded spot ? Joseph Gorgas and ^H ^H wife, so far as known, had no issue, nor were H ^1 they burdened with a surfeit of earthly riches. H ^^ It is true that their mills once enjoyed the… … Traditions and Legends. 287 would be against any such assumption. The large win-dows, high ceilings and bold stairway fail to harmonizewith our ideas of narrow cells and cloistered monks; nordo they show any kinship whatever with the communitybuildings still standing at Ephrata. Yet somehow all the…
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