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the rent and glued-up cane rod previous to 1847. In this 

 year "Ephemera" (Edward Fitzgibbon) published his 

 '' Hand-book of Angling," in which he gives a description 

 of the method of Mr. Little, a London rod maker, in the 

 construction of a salmon rod composed of an ash butt, with 

 the other joints of three-section split and glued-up bam- 

 boo cane. 



During the Chicago World's Fair a daughter of Samuel 

 Phillippe called on me and gave me a very interesting 

 account of her father. Among other things she stated 

 that after her father's death Joseph Jefferson, the actor, 

 called at their house and piirchased one of her father's 

 rods. 



Mr. Solon C. Phillippe, of Easton, Pa., a son of Samuel 

 Phillippe, furnished me with the following notes concern- 

 ing his father: 



" Samuel Phillippe was born August 9, 1801, in Reading, Pa., 

 and died in Easton, Pa., May 25, 1877. He went to Easton when 

 about sixteen years old, where he learned the trade of gunsmith 

 with Mr. Peter Young. He was a skilled workman in wood or 

 metal. He made violins and iishing rods in addition to his regu- 

 lar work as a gunsmith. He received a silver medal for one of his 

 violins from the Franklin Institute Fair, at Philadelphia. He 

 made the. first "Kinsey" fishing hooks from patterns furnished by 

 Phineus Kinsey, of Easton, Pa. He was a good trout fisher, and 

 fished at times in company with Thad. Norris, of Philadelphia, 

 and Judge Jas. Madison Porter, Colonel T. R. Sitgreaves, Wm. 

 Green, Phineus Kinsey, John and Abraham DcHart, Sheriff Heck- 

 man, and others of Easton. 



" He visited a number of places with Mr. Thad. Norris, when 

 the latter was seeking a location for a trout hatchery, and which 

 was finally located near Bloomsburg, N. J. Mr. Norris often saw 

 Phillippe at work on split-bamboo rods in his shop. Charles P. 

 Murphy, himself a noted rod maker, of Newark, N. J., also visited 

 Phillippe to learn something of his method of making split-bam- 

 boo rods. 



