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Arthur D. Graeff
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Arthur Dundore Graeff (September 23, 1899 — March 28, 1969) was an American local historian and author in the Pennsylvania German language. Born in Adamstown, Pennsylvania, he was an alumnus of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. Between 1938 and 1969, Graeff wrote the "Scholla" column three times a week in the Reading Times. Following a long career teaching at Overbrook Senior High School in Philadelphia, he taught at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Alvernia College, and in informal Pennsylvania German weekend and night-school classes. Graeff used the dialect pseudonyms Der Dichter vun de Dolpehock and Der Ewich Yeeger. He was president of the Pennsylvania German Society from 1966 to 1969.
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Graeff died in Robesonia, Pennsylvania and is buried in Wernersville at St. John's Hains Cemetery.
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Works
- Conrad Weiser, Interpreter (1932)
- The Relations between the Pennsylvania Germans and the British Authorities, 1750-1776 (Norristown, 1939)
- American History Visualized in Pennsylvania German Almanacs (1940)
- Old World Backgrounds of American Life (1941)
- (with Ralph Charles Wood), The Pennsylvania Germans (Princeton University Press, 1943)
- Bicentennial of the Union Church of North Heidelberg, 1744-1944 (1944)
- Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania Peacemaker (1945)
- Lebanon County through the Centuries: An Appreciation (1945)
- It Happened in Pennsylvania (1947)
- Industrial Berks County 1748-1948: Presented to the People of Reading and Berks County on the Occasion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the City of Reading (1948)
- The Pennsylvania Germans in Ontario, Canada (1948)
- Transplants of Pennsylvania Indian Nations in Ontario (1948)
- The Constitution of Pennsylvania (1949)
- A History of Steel Casting (1949)
- 50 Years: Womelsdorf Bank and Trust Company (1953)
- The Keystone State: Geography, History, Government (1953)
- Collection of Original Documents Selected from the Public Record Office Relating to the Palatine Immigration: Original Documents Selected for Filming from the Colonial Office and Treasury Papers (1954)
- The Rittenhouse Line (1956)
- A Visitor's Guide to Berks County (1964)
- Selections from Arthur Graeff's "Scholla" (1971)
- Echoes of "Scholla" Illustrated: Choice Bits of Berks County History and Lore (1976)
- Henry Vanderslice, Wagon-master, 1777-1778 (no date)
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References
- Obituary, Lebanon Daily News, March 29, 1969, p. 2.
- Obituary, Allentown The Morning Call, March 29, 1969, p. 15.
- Obituary, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, March 31, 1969, p. 2.
- Obituary, Lancaster New Era, March 31, 1969, p. 16.
External links
- Grave in Wernersville, Berks County
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