Christopher Sower

Christopher Sower (born 1693, Ladenburg Palatinate of the Rhine [Germany]—died Sept. 25, 1758, Germantown, Pa. [U.S.]) was a German-born American printer and Pietist leader of the Pennsylvania Germans. Sower migrated with his wife and son Christopher to Germantown, Pa., in 1724. He was an artisan skilled in many crafts, was profoundly religious, and found his true career in 1738 as the first successful printer to the numerous Germans in colonial America. The output from his...