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deceased, one of the ablest historians the county ever pro- 

 duced, and who made an exhaustive study of the Svveden- 

 borgian movement in Delaware County, gave the writers 

 (1911) the following information regarding the movement : — 

 " Prior to 1830, James Robinson began disseminating the 

 Swedenborgian religion in Upper Darby, a Sunday School 

 being organized in the picker room of the old factory building 

 at the mills now operated by Thomas Kent. Occasional ser- 

 vices were also held at the Academy building at Haddington. 

 From this movement a church organization was eflected, with 

 the following persons as members : David Snyder, Charles 

 Sellers, Samuel Sellers, Jesse Hayes, Edward Levis and wife, 

 Morris W. Heston and wife, Benjamin Thomas and wife, 

 George Trites and wife. On June 7th, 1830, the corner-stone 

 of the present edifice, on the Marshall Road, near Naylor's 

 Run, was laid, a large number of persons from the neighbor- 

 hood and Philadelphia being present. Mr. Robinson con- 



cated in the public schools of Delaware County, being at one time a 

 pupil of the Media school ; later he took up a collegiate course in Phila- 

 delphia. He was an expert penman, having graduated in that branch 

 under the special instruction of Prof. A. R. Dunton, of Boston, Mass. 

 In 1865 Mr. Pond began his business career as an accountant in Philadel- 

 phia, being engaged in the Fairmount Park Commissioners' office ; then 

 went with Harrison Brothers & Co., in the same city, and then became 

 connected with a large wholesale marble concern, with which latter firm 

 he was employed until 191 1, when upon returning home on the night of 

 9-23-1911, he was struck by a trolley car of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran- 

 sit Company, near Waverly Avenue, in Springfield Township, Delaware 

 County, Pa., and so badly injured that he died shortly afterwards in the 

 Chester Hospital, where he had been taken after the accident. At the 

 time of his death, Mr. Pond had in preparation a " History of Delaware 

 CoiiUty and its People," but after his demise one of his closest friends 

 destroyed the manuscript, thereby destroying one of the most valuable 

 contributions to the historical archives of the county. At the time of 

 his death he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Morton 

 Building and Loan Association. He was survived by a brother, Wesley 

 Pond, and a sister, Mrs. Susan Flounders. His remains were laid to 

 rest in Mount Zion Cemetery, near Darby, Pa. 



