Descendants of Jacob Hetrick
Another group of Hetrick family arrived in Philadelphia between 1880 and 1890. This group was from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Erwin or Ervin arrived in Philadelphia with family. The family appeared to be running a boarding house in Philadelphia and involved in the cigar making industry.
Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.
These two waterfront warehouses were built around 1796, and were in continuous use until just after 1900. They were built by Paul Beck, a well-known merchant in his time, and builder of a shot tower on Cherry Street at 21st in 1808. Visible for some distance, the shot tower was for twenty years a landmark on the Schuylkill River. --OPEP, p. 35.
Descendants of Jacob Hetrick
