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Source: July 1940 Volume 3 Number 3, Inside Front Cover

Samuel Paul Teamer - a memory

In the enjoyment of his home with which he was so identified in the neighborhood, it is likely that Mr. Teamer was moved less by its proximity to the great high school from which he graduated in its first class and of which he became the principal, than by the commanding view of the hills at Valley Forge.

Situated on the site of an early house in Tredyffrin, at the junction of the road leading from the old King George Tavern in the Great Valley with the Great Road between Philadelphia and Lancaster, the point was truly fitting. For while Paul Teamer loved his work, far and above all, he loved his State, her history and its telling. Westward, along the old colonial road in whose story he was so interested, he passed to his final resting place at the scene of Wayne's Paoli encampment.

Valley Forge, Paoli, The Brandywine and surrounding territory. He knew them all. And of all, his great knowledge was ever growing. His colleagues long will feel his presence and his inspiration. His home was our first meeting place. We could not have had a better.