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Notes on Joseph Hertzog, an Early Philadelphia Merchant
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Joseph Hertzog was born at a time when the spirit of romanticism was displacing the cold, calculating aura of the eighteenth century; when Schiller and Goethe, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Poe and Whittier, impelled by their love for the homelier things of life, wrote eloquently to the heart of man; when the Ohio yielded place to the Mississippi as a western boundary; when the pioneers were pushing the frontiers farther and farther westward and giving our country that dauntless courage, that sturdy honesty, and that democratic spirit which we should like to consider synonymous with “Americanism” today. With his poetic soul, clear vision, and faith in his country, Hertzog contributed to the progress that marked his epoch and gave to posterity an example of sterling qualities that never wavered in the face of disappointment, ill treatment, and even failure to realize the ambitions he hoped to reach.
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page 66 note 1 Hertzog to Joseph Hertzog Bush, July 9, 1813.
page 66 note 2 Hertzog to Zachary Mussina, Oct. 12, 1811.
page 66 note 3 Hertzog to Joseph Hertzog Bush, July 9, 1813.
page 66 note 4 Hertzog to Christian Wilt, Sept. 30, 1813.
page 67 note 1 Hertzog to Simon Philipson, July 20, 1811.
page 68 note 1 Hertzog to Sutton, July 16, 1811.
page 69 note 1 Hertzog to Zachary Mussina, June 3, 1811.
page 69 note 2 Hertzog to George Sutton, June 10, 1811.
page 69 note 3 Hertzog to Zachary Mussina, July 27, 1811.
page 69 note 4 Ibid., Aug. 3, 1811.
page 70 note 1 Hertzog to Sutton & McNickle, June 13, 1812.
page 70 note 2 Ibid., June 18, 1812.
page 70 note 3 Ibid., July 11. 1812.
page 70 note 4 Hertzog to Andrew Wilt, Dec. 4, 1813.
page 70 note 5 Hertzog to Mussina & Patterson, Sept. 22, 1812.
page 71 note 1 Hertzog to David and Philip Grimm, June 8, 1811.
page 71 note 2 Hertzog to Frederick Stees, Dec. 3, 1811.
page 71 note 3 Hertzog to Wilt, April 18-22, 1812.
page 71 note 4 For the details of Wilt's life as a merchant, see SisterJennings, Marietta. A Pioneer Merchant of St. Louis, 1810-20 (New York, 1939)Google Scholar.
page 72 note 1 Aug. 29,1811.
page 72 note 2 Aug. 2, 1812.
page 72 note 3 Dec. 11, 1813.
page 73 note 1 Hertzog to Christian Wilt, 1812.
page 73 note 2 Hertzog to Andrew Wilt, Oct. 10, 1813.
page 73 note 3 Hertzog to C. Wilt, Oct. 10, 1813.
page 74 note 1 Hertzog to Christian Wilt, Dec. 4, 1813.
page 75 note 1 Hertzog to Andrew Wilt, Nov. 28, 1813.
page 75 note 2 Sometimes called Bounty Lands. So named because they were freely granted by the U. S. Government to the heirs of non-commissioned officers and others who died in the service of the United States and who held claims for pay and bounty.
page 76 note 1 Hertzog to Henry Baldwin, Sept. 15, 1812.