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PySide GUI Application Development Python 2nd Edition
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Language: english
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PySide GUI Application
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Develop more dynamic and robust GUI applications

using PySide, an open source cross-platform UI
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Gopinath Jaganmohan
Venkateshwaran Loganathan

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 About the Authors

Gopinath Jaganmohan is an Internet of Things evangelist and open source

distributed-computing architect. He has 14 years of experience in various industries
and has architected and lead implementation in Internet of Things platforms and
solutions for enterprise in Telematics, Healthcare, and Wearables. He has worked on
various technologies starting from C, Python, Lua, to Node.js, and implemented Big
Data technologies like Hbase, Couchbase and ZooKeeper for various clients. He is
passionate about device programming and device integration. He is lately working
on deep learning technologies like Keras, scikit, Torch7 and Pandas in machine
learning for device data.

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involved in the design, development, and testing of software products for more than
five years now. He was introduced to computer programming at an early age of 11
with FoxPro, and he then started to learn and master various computer languages,
such as C, C++, Perl, Python, Node.js, and Unix shell scripting. Fascinated by open
source development, he has involved himself in contributing to various open source
technologies.

He is now working for Cognizant Technology Solutions as a technology specialist

where he has involved himself in research and development for the Internet
of Things domain. He is now actively involved in using RFID devices, Drones,
and Google Glass to evolve Future of Technology concepts. Before joining with
Cognizant, he worked with few of the IT majors, such as Infosys, Virtusa, and
NuVeda. Starting his career as a network developer, he gained expertise in various
domains, such as Networking, E-Learning, and HealthCare. He has won various
awards and accolades to his merit in the companies he has worked for.
Venkateshwaran holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering
from Anna University and an M.S in software systems from BITS, Pilani. Apart from
programming, he is actively involved in handling various technical and soft skills
classes for budding engineers and college students. His hobbies include singing and
trekking. He likes to get involved with social servicing and move with people a lot.
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 Table of Contents
Preface v
Chapter 1: Getting Started with PySide 1
Introducing PySide 2
Hello, GUI 2
Setting up PySide 4
Installing PySide using Windows 4
Installing PySide using Mac OS X 4
Installing PySide using Linux 5
Building PySide on Windows 6
Building PySide on Linux 7
Prerequisites 7
Building PySide 7
Mac OS X 8
Importing PySide objects 8
First PySide application 9
Exception handling as a practice 12
Summary 14
Chapter 2: Entering through Windows 15
Creating a simple window 15
Creating the application icon 19
Showing a tooltip 24
Adding a button 26
Centering the window on the screen 28
About box 29
Tracking time using timers 30
Windows style 34
Summary 35

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Chapter 3: Main Windows and Layout Management 37

Creating the main window 38
Status bar 39
Menu bar 43
The central widget 44
Adding a menu bar 45
Adding menus 46
Toolbar 50
Layout management 50
Absolute positioning 51
Layout containers 51
QBoxLayout 52
QHBoxLayout 53
QVBoxLayout 54
QGridLayout 55
QFormLayout 56
QStackedLayout 56
SDI and MDI 57
A simple text editor 57
Summary 63
Chapter 4: Events and Signals 65
Event management 65
Event loop 66
Event processing 67
Reimplementing event handlers 67
Installing event filters 71
Reimplementing the notify() function 73
Signals and slots 73
Drag and drop technique 78
Drawing shapes 80
Graphics and effects 83
Summary 86
Chapter 5: Dialogs and Widgets 87
Built-in dialogs 88
QFileDialog 88
QInputDialog 91
QColorDialog 93
QPrintDialog 94
Custom dialogs 95

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 Table of Contents

Widgets at a glance 97
Custom widget 100
Implementation of MDI 102
Summary 104
Chapter 6: Database Handling 105
Connecting to the database 105
Executing SQL queries 107
Executing a query 108
Inserting, updating and deleting records 108
Navigating records 110
Database transactions 111
Table and form views 112
QSqlQueryModel 112
QSqlTableModel 112
QSqlRelationalTableModel 113
Table view 114
Form view 116
Viewing relations in table views 119
Summary 120
Index 121

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 Preface
The aim of this book is to introduce you to developing GUI applications in an easy
way. Python is easy to learn and use, and its programs are relatively short compared
to those written in any other programming languages, such as C++, and Java. It is
supported by a large set of dynamic libraries and bindings that make it efficient to
develop very complex applications in an efficient manner. This book will introduce
you to user interface programming and its components. You will be able to develop
real-time applications in a shorter time after reading this book. The second edition.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with PySide, introduces you to GUI programming in general.
This chapter takes you through the introduction of PySide and its installation in
various major operating systems, followed by a short introduction to exception
handling in programming. By the end of this chapter, users will know how to install
and use PySide to create GUI applications in Python.

Chapter 2, Entering through Windows, introduces you to all the GUI programming
that revolves around Windows. This chapter explains the basic methods of creating
windows and adding some functions to them. By the end of this chapter, users will
be familiar with how to create windows and modify them accordingly.

Chapter 3, Main Windows and Layout Management, elaborates further on the

previous chapter by explaining how to create menus and tool bars for a windowed
application. This also explains layout management policies. A simple text editor is
given as an example at the end of the chapter. By the end of this chapter, readers
have an experience of creating a real-time application in PySide.

Chapter 4, Events and Signals, this chapter goes on to explain the signals, various text
and graphic effects, drag and drop, and a few geometrical diagram shapes. By the
end of this chapter, readers will learn about managing events and various other text
and graphical effects.
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Preface

Chapter 5, Dialogs and Widgets, details the built-in dialog boxes for applications,
introduces how to create customized dialogs, and then takes a look at the various
widgets that are available in PySide. By the end of this chapter, you will learn about
creating your own customized widgets and dialogs.

Chapter 6, Database Handling, explains how connecting to a database is evident for

almost all applications. This chapter is dedicated to explaining how to connect to a
database and execute queries on it. It also deals with the presentation of data in table
and form views. By the end of this chapter, you will know more about interacting
with databases and viewing data from them.

What you need for this book

To execute the examples that are provided in this book, you will require a standard
installation of Python v2.6 or later, including Python v3.4, and PySide v1.0.7 or later.
A good text editor application, such as Sublime Text, will also help in writing Python
programs in an IDE environment.

Who this book is for

Are you a GUI developer or fascinated by GUI programming? Bored with writing
several lines of code to create a simple button in GUI? Then this book is for you. This
book is written for Python programmers to try their hands at GUI programming.
Even if you are new to Python but have some programming experience with any of
the object-oriented languages, you will be able to easily pick it up as Python is easy
to learn.

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import sys, time
from PySide.QtGui import *
from PySide.QtCore import *

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port-install pyXX-pyside

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 Getting Started with PySide
Python is a general-purpose, interpreted, object-oriented, and high-level
programming language with dynamic semantics. It has efficient high-level data
structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. It is
one of the most preferred programming languages by software developers due to its
interpreted nature and its elegant syntax.

The success of Python lies in its simple and easy-to-learn syntax and the support
of a wide variety of modules and packages that encourage program modularity
and code reuse. Being an interpreted language, there is no compilation step, which
makes the edit-test-debug cycle incredibly fast, paving the way to Rapid Application
Development, the need of the hour. The support of object-oriented features and
high-level data structures, such as generators and list comprehensions, makes
Python a superior language for coding small scripting programs to more advanced
game programming.

This book assumes that you have been acquainted with Python and want to test its
capability in creating GUI applications. However, Python is easy to learn in just a
week. If you already know programming, then learning Python will be like walking
in the park for you. There are many resources available online and offline covering
a wide range of topics. Being an open source language, Python is also supported by
many programmers around the globe in the IRC system under the tag #python.

Python is named after the BBC show Monty Python's Flying Circus and
has nothing to do with reptiles. Thus, making references to Monty
Python skits in documentation is practiced and encouraged.
The Python newsgroup, comp.lang.python, and mailing list python-
list at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-
list will help you learn and explore Python.

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Getting Started with PySide

Introducing PySide
Many of the modern programming languages are backed up by a set of libraries
(commonly referred to as toolkits) to create GUI applications, such as Qt, Tcl/Tk, and
so on. PySide is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, and it runs on
all platforms that are supported by Qt, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It
is one of the alternatives to toolkits such as Tkinter for GUI programming in Python.

PySide combines the advantages of Qt and Python. A PySide programmer has

all the power of Qt, but it is able to exploit it with the simplicity of Python.
PySide is licensed under the LGPL version 2.1 license, allowing both Free/Open
Source software and proprietary software development. PySide is evolving
continuously, like any other open source product, and you are free to contribute
to its development. Some of the applications, such as matplotlib, PhotoGrabber,
QBitTorrent, Lucas Chess, Fminer and so on, certify the wide spread usage of PySide
in the software industry.

The IRC channel for PySide is #pyside at Freenode.

PySide has also become an enabler of mobile development. Qt Mobility is a project

that is creating a new suite of Qt APIs for mobile device functionality. The project
Pyside Mobility is a set of bindings that allows Python to access the Qt Mobility
API. The Qt Mobility API enables the developer to access the bread and butter of
services provided by the underlying operating system that are essential for any
mobile application. Learning PySide, you learn this for free. Without further ado,
let's get hacking!

Hello, GUI
In computing terms, GUI (pronounced as gooey, or Graphical User Interface) is
used to denote a set of interfaces with computing systems that involves user-friendly
images rather than boring text commands. GUI comes to the rescue of the numerous
command-line interfaces that have always been coupled with a steep learning curve
because learning and mastering commands requires a lot of effort due to their
nonintuitive nature. Moreover, GUI layers make it easy for the end users to fulfill
their needs without knowing much about the underlying implementation, which is
unnecessary for them.

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 Chapter 1

Every other application in the modern world is designed with interactive graphics
to attract the end users. Simplicity and usability are the two main ingredients for
a successful GUI system. The demanding feature of a GUI is to allow the user to
concentrate on the task at hand. To achieve this, it must serve the interaction between
the human and the computer, and make it no less than seamless and flowing.
Therefore, learning to create GUIs will not only make you a successful developer, but
it will also help in getting some revenue for yourself.

At a very basic level, a GUI is seen as a window (visibly noticeable or not) consisting
of the following parts: controls, menu, layout, and interaction. A GUI is represented
as a window on the screen and contains a number of different controls, as follows:

• Controls: These can, for example, be labels, buttons or text boxes.

• Menu: This is usually situated under the top frame of the GUI window and
presents to the users some choices to control the application. The top frame
can also have buttons to hide, resize, or destroy the windows, which are,
again, controls.
• Layout: This is the way that the controls are positioned, which is very
important in good GUI design.
• Interaction: This happens in the way of I/O devices, such as a mouse and
keyboard.

Development of a GUI application revolves around defining and controlling these

components, and designing the area of interaction is the most challenging part of
all. The correct exploitation of events, listeners, and handlers will help in developing
better GUI applications. Many frameworks have been developed to support GUI
development, such as the Model-View-Controller framework that is used in many
web-based applications. Using some of these frameworks can make the GUI
programming easier and will come in handy for future implementations. A good
user-interface design relates to the user, not to the system architecture.

Usually, GUIs are characterized by 2W's, namely WIMP and WYSIWYG.

They are acronyms for Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing devices (mouse,
joystick, and so on) and What You See Is What You Get.

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(County to join the Continental army at Boston after the battle of
Bunker Hill. His younger brother, Samuel (a lad under age)
accompanied him and lost his life in the war, while William wrecked
his fortune, and "White Hall" passed into the hands of his brother.
Colonel Alexander White. Oxford Township claims credit for the first
two soldiers from our county to join the Revolution; — Captain John
McMurtrie and Lieutenant William White, both of whom were on the
Sussex Committee of Safety, and joined the army at Boston right
after the battle of Bunker Hill. White was the son of Alexander
White, who bought in 1762 a part of the Van Etten tract of land,
which has ever since been known by his name. He built a handsome
stone residence, which is still standing, called "White Hall." It is on
the new macadam road between Belvidere and Roxburg. Here
General Washington- is said to have stopped on his journey from the
Sun Inn, at Bethlehem, to his encampment at Morristown, and from
the balcony William Henry Harrison delivered a presidential
campaign speech. It will be remembered that General Harrison
married a daughter of John Cleve Symmes, of Sussex County.
Captain Joseph Mackey was an early settler in the vicinity of
Roxburg, and was captain in the First Regiment of Sussex County
during the Revolution. After the war he became possessed of a great
deal of real estate mostly in Oxford, which he left to his children,
who are John, Joseph, William, Jeremiah, Lewis, James, Mrs. Hazel,
Mrs. Michael Roseberry, Mrs. William Roseberry and Mrs. Lowe Miller.
Some of his real estate is still owned by his descendants. Aaron
Prall, the ancestor of the family in Warren County, came
 Warren County. 217 to Scott's Mountain from Amwell,
Hunterdon County. He had six children, one of whom was Aaron, Jr.,
who was father of Thomas Prall, who lived at Bridgeville and Hazen.
Thomas had nine children. These were Mrs. Mary Jones, William
Prall, John Clark Prall, Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Lieutenant James Prall,
Mrs. Margaret Smith, Hartley B. Prall and George T. Prall.
 CHAPTER XXVIII. Pa%[AQUARRY. Pahaquarry derives its
name from Pahaqualong the Indian name for the mountain which
forms its southern boundary. Before the formation of Warren
"County it was a part of Walpack, which was a township before
1738, when we find that Thomas Quick, Tunis Quick, Abraham
Vanawken and Cornelius Aducher, from Walpack, voted in Hunterdon
County (of which Warren then formed a part) for representatives to
serve in the General Assembly. Pahaquarry as a township dates from
November 20, 1824, when Warren was separated from Sussex.
Pahaquarry, with the exception of a narrow strip of land lying along
the Delaware, is occupied by the Blue Mountains, or Kittatinny
Mountains, which are here composed of two ranges. One of these is
Mount Tammany, named after the celebrated Delaware chieftain
Tamenund, who also has given his name to a number of societies,
the most famous of which is Tammany Hall, in New York. Mount
Tammany is six miles in length a,nd, at its western extremity, guards
the southern entrance to the Water Gap, together with Mount Minsi,
on the opposite side. Mount Tammany rises from a height of 1,500
feet at the Gap to 1,625 feet two miles further east, and ismore than
one hundred feet higher than Mount Minsi, whose elevation is 1,500
feet. The southern slope of Mount Tammany seems almost
perpendicular, falling as much as 600 feet to one-eighth of z mile of
horizontal measurement. Blockade Mountain is north of Mount
Tammany, and is continuous with the main range of the Blue
Mountains, which extend northeastward into the State of New York
and southwestward through Pennsylvania.
 Warren County. 219 111 general the Kittatiniig Mounutain
slopes precipitately to the southeast and more gently to the
northwest. Buckwood Park is a game preserve of 8,000 acres,
comprising the western half of Pahaquarry. It covers Blockade
Mountain for six miles and takes in all of Mount Tammany. It is
enclosed by eleven miles of fencing eight feet high, containing
twenty strands of wire. The land for it was purchased by Mr.
Worthington in 1890. Several hundred deer now roam at will through
the many miles of forestcovered slopes or graze on the more open
plateau. A fine residence in the park was occupied by Mr.
Worthington until he purchased of the estate of Robert Dupui the old
stone mansion now called Manwalamink, and the hundreds of acres
of level land attached to it, including Manwalamink and Shawnee
islands, all in Pennsylvania, opposite to Buckwood Park. As an
entertainer, Mr. Charles C. Worthington Is a worthy successor to the
venerable Dupui, who, in 1730, entertained so hospitably the
Pennsylvania officials sent for the purpose of getting evidence to
indict him for "forcible entry and detainer," that, instead, they made
a survey of his plantation so that they might protect him in the
possession of it, and William Allen himself, father-in-law of Governor
Penn, gave to Nicholas Dupui in 1730 and 1733 two deeds for the
land that Dupui had already bought of the Indians in 1727. The
Penns have been wrongly blamed for this generous action. With this
deed as a basis. It was claimed they had sold lands in the Minisink
before these had been purchased from the Indians. It is true that
the "Indian Walk," which gave the Minisinks to the proprietaries, was
not made until 1737, but it Is not true that the Indians were
wronged in any way by this deed from Allen to Dupui. Among the
many treasures In Manwalamink are the original models of the
"Monitor" and of the screw propeller presented to Henry B.
Worthington by John Ericsson, the inventor. All of the mountain in
Pahaquarry Is well wooded, and some of the trees in Buckwood Park
are like those of a virgin forest. One hun 
 2 20 Warren County. dred thousand trees, mostly
evergreens, have been planted by Mr. Worthington, according to the
latest ideas of forestry on land that was once farmed between
Buckwood Park and the river. On a level plateau at the summit of the
mountain lie two very pretty lakes. One, Buckwood l^ake (formerly
called Sunfish Pond), is a mile long, a half-mile wide, and lies 1,378
feet above sea level; the other is Catfish Pond, about half as long
and wide, and is 1,181 feet above the ocean. Across the river from
Buckwood Park, and four miles from the Water Gap, is the village of
Shawnee, most of which forms a part of the great estate which Mr.
Worthington and his associates own. While they intend to leave the
Jersey shore in all the glory of its original wildness, on the
Pennsylvania side, at Shawnee, they are planning under the name of
the Rossiter Realty Company, to have others also enjoy the beauty of
location. Here they are erecting a hotel called Buckwood Inn, and
are building many bungalows of artistic design. Manwalamink Island
is the upper of two islands at Shawnee, each of which lies between
the Delaware River and a Binnie Kill, which is a local word, meaning,
according to Mr. Worthington, Minnow Stream. It contains 180 acres
of fertile level land, and on it is the stump, six feet across, of the old
Indian Council Tree, which was killed by lightning many years ago.
Near it is a very large chestnut tree fully 175 years old, which must
also have sheltered the Indians in their councils. Directly south of
this tree was an Indian burying ground, out of which, during the
flood of 1903, several skulls and some arrowheads were washed.
Between Manwalamink and Shawnee islands is the original crossing
place for the Indian paths from the Pocono to the New Jersey
Minisink. Here for many years the river was forded by Indians and by
travelers coming down the old mine road. Later Walker's ferry was
established at this point, and is still operated by Mr. Worthington as
a private ferry. The earliest works of man in the State of New Jersey
are the
 Warren County. 221 old mine holes in Pahaquarry. They are
situated in the gully of Mine Brook, and within recent years have
been reopened and explored. The one recently entered was about
seven feet high, six -feet wide, and extended horizontally into the
hill about one hundred feet, then ran to the right about fifty feet,
and then to the left another fifty feet. There are several similar
openings, and all seem to be exploratory in character. Before any
extensive work was done they were abandoned. The only record
found that may refer to these mines is in the "Documentary History
of New York," which says that "Claaus De Ruyter exhibited in
Amsterdam, Holland, specimens of copper ore taken from the
Minisinks in America," in 1659. This record, slight as It is, supports
all the traditions respecting the old mine road and the mine holes at
the end of it. These are that, when this region was a part of New
Netherlands, these mines were worked by a company of Hollanders,
who hauled their ore to Esopus and shipped it to Holland, but
abandoned the whole venture when the English conquered the
country in 1664. None of the miners had been here for years when
the first settlers came down the mine road, and those settlers were
unable in any way to find out who had dug the holes, what ore they
found, or when they had worked here. To reach the mines a road
was constructed from Esopus, on the Hudson River, up the valley of
a small stream and down the valley of another stream to Port Jervis,
and thence along the Delaware River to the mines, about seven
miles from the Water Gap. The road probably followed an earlier
Indian path, and is one hundred miles in length. It was the earliest
road of like extent to be built in America, and for scores of years it
was the preferred route from New England to Philadelphia and the
South. The old mine road could not well have been built before
Esopus was settled in 1652, and it was probably built between that
date and 1659, when "Claaus De Ruyter exhibited his specimens of
copper ore." It was surely built and the mines abandoned by 1664,
when the English made a conquest of the New Netherlands, for after
this the Dutch would have no incentive to work the mines, as
 222 Warren County. a heavy percentage of the Mutput
would be claimed for the English crown. There is no question that
the first settlers to come down the Delaware as far- as Warren
County after the early miners left were the family of Nicolaes Dupui,
who followed the old mine road to its end, and in the vicinity found
improvements in the shape of apple orchards and cleared land,
which they bought of the Indians then in possession of them. Two
Indians, Waugoanlenneggea and Pennogue, gave a deed to Nicolas
Dupui in 1727 for land situated four miles above the Water Gap. The
deed is now in possession of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
Nicolaes Dupui received his title to the islands in the Delaware and
the land at Shawnee from William Allen by two deeds bearing date
September 10, 1730, and September 10, 1733. The land was
originally surveyed by N. Scull in 1730, on a warrant dated
November 16, 1727, which warrant was transferred by William Penn
(the grandson of William Penn) to William Allen on August 29, 1728.
On this land Nicolaes Dupui and his sons, Samuel, Daniel, Aaron and
Benjamin, lived. In 1753, when eighty-three years of age, Nicolaes
gave a deed for the Great Shawna Island and forty acres "Where the
new dwelling house, barns, orchards and grist mill stands," to Daniel
Dupui. Samuel occupied the homestead, as did his son, Nicolas, and
his descendants after him, until Robert Dupui, the last of the line,
died, and the property was bought by the present owner, Mr. C. C.
Worthington. Aaron Dupui kept the first store in Warren County at
Oxford Furnace, in 1741. His old account book is still in the
possession of one of his descendants, Mrs. H. A- Croasdale, of the
River Farm, at the Delaware Water Gap. Nicholas Dupui, who arrived
at New Amsterdam in October, 1662, from Artois, France, is the
ancestor of all of the name Dupui, Dupuis, Depue or Depew in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew. Nicholas died at New York
 Warren County. 223 in 1 69 1, leaving five children, who
were John, Moses, Aaron, Susannah and Nicholas, the last being the
settler at Shawnee. The Depues of Warren and Northampton
counties are descended from Moses, who settled on a large tract of
land in Ulster County, New York, probably before his father's death in
1691, and became the most prominent man in that county. Of his
children two, Moses and Benjamin, settled near Flat Brook. At
present there are living in Pahaquarry, William Depue, son of Moses,
who died at Calno in 1909, and Norman and Cloyd Depue, sons of
Daniel,' who died at Calno in 19 10. Moses and Daniel were sons of
John Depue, who lived near Calno all his life. With regard to the
Minisinks in general, we have evidence furnished by the visit of Arent
Schuyler, in 1 694, that at that time no white settlers were known in
this region. The Governor of New York, who thought the Minisinks
belonged to that State, learning that the French and French Indians
from Canada had taken possession of the Minisinks, or were about
to do so, sent Arent Schuyler to investigate. He went to Port Jervis
and down the river to the Indian settlement, where he met some
Indian sachems, who said they had seen no French or French
Indians, and would let the Governor know at once if any appeared.
Schuyler does not report meeting any white men in this visit to the
Minisinks in 1694. In 1697 he patented a tract of 1,000 acres In the
territory he had visited, and as that was the first patent for lands in
the Minisinks, it Is fair to asume that actual settlers did not come
until some time later yet than this. In 1704 the Minisink patent was
issued to a number of people. In 17 18 Joseph KIrkbride located
1,200 acres at Flatbrook. In 173 1 John Black purchased 600 acres
on the Flat Brook, which were sold to John Cleve Symmes in 1760.
These examples give an accurate idea of the date of the earliest
locations of land in the Minisink. In John Reading's journal, in
possession of the New Jersey Historical Society, we find that in 17 19
settlements extended down as far as Minisink, and that in the seven
towns
 224 Warren County. on the Delaware and Macacamac
branch there were twenty-six married couples, sixty-one unmarried
males, and fifty-six unmarried females. The first family to settle
permanently in the Minisinks in Warren County was that of Colonel
Abram Van Campen, who purchased from the heirs of George
Hutchesoif, of New York, on March 8, 1732, a tract of land called by
the Indians Pahaqualin, containing by estimation 1,666 acres, for the
sum of 735 pounds. This tract included all the level land in the upper
part of Pahaquarry for seven miles, its upper limit being at a rift in
the Delaware called Sombo, one mile south of Flatbrookville. Colonel
Abram Van Campen had four sons, named Benjamin, Moses, Abram
and John. Of these, Benjamin and Moses had no children. Abram, Jr.,
the eldest son, had two sons named James and Abram (3rd.). James
was the father of Abram, Elijah, Moses and Henry. Abram (3r,d.) had
one son, Moses. Three hundred acres of the original 1,666-acre tract
are still owned by Theron Van Campen and his sister, Mrs. John
Lamb, who are children of Benjamin, and grandchildren of Moses
Van Campen. John Van Campen, son of Colonel Abram, was father
of Abram, who had no sons. Catherine Van Campen, a daughter of
Colonel Abram, married Benjamin Depue and, moving to Mt. Bethel
Township, in Northampton County, became the ancestor of many
named Depue in that region and in Warren County. Some members
of the Van Campen family settled every farm from the old mine holes
to the Sussex County line, and many have also lived in Sussex
County. Among the settlers of the Minisink before 1780 were those
named Depui, Van Campen, Van Auken, Van Etten, Westbrook,
Brink, Shoemaker, De Witt, Brodhead, Hyndshaw, Stroud, Quick,
Cortright, Rosenkranz, Transue, Storm, Middaugh, Dingman, Decker,
LaBar, Detrick and Miller. Shortly after 1800 some families came from
Bucks County to Pahaquarry. Among them were John Gariss and
Yost Yetter, who settled at Flatbrookville. The latter's son, Jacob
Yetter, is father to Andrew Yetter, of Blairstown, whither he moved
 Warren County. 225 in 1852, and has become one of the
most influential men of the region. Many descendants of John Gariss
are still living in the vicinity of Millbrook. The schools in this township
are at Millbrook, Calno, and Dunfield. Brotzmansville was once a
village opposite Shawnee, but is now only a memory. Here is the
dwelling of the Fish and Game Warden for Warren County, Mr. Harry
E. Cudney, who is also overseer of Buckwood Park. Dimmick's Ferry,
near the old mine holes, has been conducted by members of the
family of that name for many years. Dunfield at one time bore the
name which has been reserved since for the larger town across the
river called the Delaware Water Gap. The mountain scenery in this
vicinity is the finest in the East, and has the additional advantage of
being very easy of access from our large cities. The Water Gap forms
a great natural passageway through the mountains, which is utilized
on the western side by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad, and on the eastern side by the New York, Susquehanna and
Western. The latter crosses the Delaware just above the Gap, on an
iron bridge. The extreme end of Blockade Mountain, which, with
Mount Minsi and Mount Tammany, encloses the Water Gap, is a park
of several hundred acres, in which is situated the Karamac Inn, from
which one of the. finest views in America is obtained.
 CHAPTER XXIX. Phillipsburg. (Written with the assistance of
Dr. John H. Griffith.) Phillipsburg was first organized as a township in
1851, and at that time included Lopatcong, which was not set off
until March 8, 1 861, when Phillipsburg was incorporated as a town.
An addition was made from Lopatcong to Phillipsburg in 1903.
Phillipsburg is on the site of an Indian village called Chintewink,
which is still the name of one of its alleys. The present name is
variously ascribed to an Indian chief Philip, who lived in the village,
and to a family named Phillips who settled there later. It is one of
the five towns in the county that had a name in 1769, the others
being Oxford, Changewater, Halketstown and Bloomsbury. In
"Hallesche Nachrichten, published in 1787, we read (p. iii) :
"Phillipsburg was an Indian town as early as 1654. The name
Phillipsburg is found on a map of 1749." It also appears on a map
published by Evans in 1755. The burden of evidence seems to favor
the derivation of the name from that of an extensive land owner
here named William Phillips, who was located in the neighborhood
as early as 1735. His daughter Margaret married John Roseberry,
and a son, William Phillips, was the most prominent man in
Phillipsburg. In 171 5 Daniel Coxe, of Burlington, received a warrant
to locate 1250 acres of land opposite to "The Forks of the Delaware
River," the Lehigh being considered the west branch of the
Delaware. The Delaware river frontage in this Daniel Coxe tract ran
from just above the square in Phillipsburg to the Andover Furnace.
In 1769 the heirs of Coxe conveyed 500 acres of the southwest part
of this tract to John
 Warren County. 22' Feith (Feit), and it is described as
adjoining the lands of Peter Kenney and John Roseberry. In 1772 the
Coxe heirs sold 200 acres to John Roseberry, and 228 acres to
Michael Roseberry, in 1779. This tract ran from Hudson Street to the
Andover Furnace, then over one mile back to John Feit's tract and
thence along the Feit, Kinney and John Roseberry tracts, and along
Hudson Street to the river. On Michael Roseberry's death this tract
became the property of his brother Joseph, who sold it to John
Roseberry in 1784. Dwelling built in 1785, by John Roseberry, one of
the earliest residents of Phillipsburg. It is now used as a blacksmith
shop. The site of the town of Phillipsburg seems to have fallen to the
lot of John Tabor Kempe, one of the Coxe heirs and a royalist, and it
was confiscated and sold in '1789 by James Hyndshaw, high sheriff,
to Jacob Arndt Jr., of Easton. The description says, "Including the
 22 8 Warren County. town of Phillipsburg," containing 91 ^
acres. To the east it ran along William Phillip's land 40 chains 50
links, to the north along the ferry land 14 chains and 50 links,
thence down the river 35 chains and 66 links to John Roseberry's
land, and along his land, about where Hudson Street is, for a
distance of 40 chains. This tract embraced the whole of the ancient
town of Phillipsburg as laid out by the Coxes. On January 5, 1793,
Jacob Arndt Jr. sold the town of Phillipsburg as above described for
£106 15s. to Philip Seager and Jacob Reese. In neither of these
deeds is there a single reservation, indicating apparently no previous
purchasers of town lots. Seager and Reese made a , division of the
town whereby Reese got two tracts in the northern part, containing
respectively 36^ acres and 13 acres, and Seager took the southern
portion. Reese sold the 13-acre tract to Thomas BuHman, who gave
or sold the entrance to the Delaware bridge at the square in 1800.
In 1739 David Martin was given a grant to keep a ferry across the
Delaware at some point between Lopatcong creek and the
Musconetcong creek. The grant included 105 acres of land above the
Coxe tract, or Phillipsburg town line. In 1742 the Martin ferry across
the river was but a canoe to take over people while their horses
swam alongside. At that time the site of Easton was covered with
woods and brush, and the only road to Bethlehem was an Indian
path. From a letter written by William Parsons, ex-surveyor-general
of Pennsylvania, and a resident of Easton, we learn that in 1752
there were eleven families in Easton, and that the Jersey side of the
river was more settled opposite the Forks than the Pennsylvania
side. The letter mentions Mr. John Cox's project of laying out a town
on his land adjoining Mr. Martin's land opposite Easton. By 1755
Easton had grown to be a town of forty dwellings, including five
taverns. By 1763 the town had sixty-three dwellings, including six
taverns. Rev. Mr. Peters bought the Martin tract and ferry rights and
sold them to Richard Penn, and he sold them to Jacob Arndt Sr., who
in 1794 conveyed the 105 acres to Lewis Goch, and he to Thomas
Bull 
 Warren County. 229 man, in 1798. Richard Peters also
bought of Joseph Turner, In 1754, 41 1 acres of land to the north of
the ferry land, which gave him control of the river front as far as
Marble Mountain. This was not a purchase friendly to the interests of
Phillipsburg, but was made by Peters at the instance of Richard
Penn, to whom he conveyed both properties for the purpose of
holding the town of Phillipsburg in check and favoring the growth of
the new town they had laid out across the river and called Easton.
The 41 1 acres came into the possession of the Howell family in
1809. About 1802 the New Brunswick turnpike was built to Union
Square. The Washington turnpike, called the Morris turnpike, was
incorporated in 1806 and built soon thereafter. Both of these
turnpikes followed roads that had been established for half a century
or more. The oldest house now standing in Phillipsburg is No. 119
South Main street. .It was built by a Mr. Roseberry in 1750. The first
house built on the hill, in the third ward, was erected by John H.
Leida in 1858, and is now No. 233 Chambers street. Shortly after
1800, Thomas Bullman built a tavern on Union Square, and later
sold it to an Albright, so that it was known for many years as
Albright's tavern. In 1 8 10 John P. Roseberry built the present Union
Square Hotel, which is now ably conducted by David W. Smith. The
Lee House was built in 1 8 1 1 for a store kept by John Mixsell. Its
present proprietor is M. O. J. Hile. Other hotels are the Phillipsburg
Hotel, owned by Harry Smith; Hotel Columbia, by W. H. Carey; and
the American House, on Jefferson street. "On the 1 6th day of
December, 1776, a portion of the American Army under General
John Sullivan passed through Phillipsburg on their way to Trenton to
join Washington, crossed the Delaware river above where the bridge
now stands, and encamped over night near Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania. "In May, 1779, General Sullivan again came this way,
by order of General Washington, and rendezvoused in Easton,
Pennsylvania, pre 
 230 Warren County. paratory to his march to Wyoming
Valley to avenge the massacre of the year before at that place.
General William Maxwell, of Greenwich township, with the New
Jersey brigade accompanied General Sullivan." The first bridge
across the Delaware at this point was erected about 1 800, and was
washed away by a freshet in a few years. In 1 805 the Easton
Delaware Bridge Company raised by a lottery enough money to build
a wooden arch bridge in the style of the one now at Columbia, which
served for nearly a century, when it was torn down and the present
iron one was erected in its place in 1895. One hundred years ago, in
181 1, Phillipsburg contained fifteen families, named Reese,
Roseberry, Ramsey, Mixsell, Myers, Bullman, Albright, Seager,
Barnes, Beers, Carpenter, Bidleman, Skillman, Phillips and Shaup.
The completion of the Morris Canal in 1832 benefitted the town
somewhat, but not to the extent expected. In 1820 Phillipsburg
contained thirty or more houses, scattered for a mile along the
Sussex road, now North Main street, and the New Brunswick
turnpike, or George street, now partly South Main street. The first
brick building in town was erected by Garret Cook in 1845. There
were no more than fifty dwellings here in 1847, and the town had no
postoffice until 1854, while Easton's post-office was established
March 20, 1793. The first important growth began with the building
of the New Jersey Central railroad, which was completed to
Phillipsburg on July I, 1852. On July 2d the first passenger train of
eight cars arrived amid great rejoicing. John Alpaugh, now residing
at Phillipsburg, and aged eighty-five, .was fireman on this first train.
The Phillipsburg Land Company, formed in 1853, purchased the
Roseberry farm, laid it out in lots, and induced many people to settle
in the town. "In all, they bought three hundred acres, laid out eleven
hundred and thirty lots, and paid for lands $55,000." Since 1853 the
growth of Phillipsburg, in population, wealth and diversity of
industries has been rapid and continuous. Phillipsburg was
incorporated as a town on March 8, 1861.
 Warren County. 231 The first election in the newly
incorporated town was held in the Union Square Hotel, then
conducted by Joseph Fisher, on April 8, 1 86 1, and Charles
Sitgreaves was chosen as the first Mayor. "The greatest railroad
strike in the history of the State took place in 1877, with Phillipsburg
as provisional headquarters for two or three weeks, with General W.
J. Sewall in command of the State troops. "October 21, 1892, the
Columbian parade took place, and was the greatest industrial
exhibition ever given in this community; 183 large and magnificent
floats were in line taking three hours to pass a given point." On May
10, 1906, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was dedicated and
unveiled on the grounds of the'Lovell School building, in the
presence of Governor Edward C. Stokes, the G. A. R., and the
Second Regiment of the National Guard of New Jersey. The total
height of the monument is about 48 feet, and it cost $5,500. "The
three mortars around the monument and the one on the soldiers'
plot in the cemetery are the property of Tolmie Post. They were a
donation made by the War Department through a special act of
Congress. All of these mortars have a record; two were in the siege
at Vicksburg, Miss., during the engagements there in 1862 and 1863
; one was captured and recaptured three times at Island No. 10; one
was at the front in the engagement at Fredericksburg, Va. "On July
4, 1870, General Theodore Runyon dedicated a Soldiers' and Sailors'
Monument in the Phillipsburg Cemetery, which was afterwards
removed under very peculiar conditions which constituted the
highest grade of vandalism ever permitted by the loyal citizens of an
enlightened community." Phillipsburg celebrated its fiftieth
anniversary by an "Old Home Week" in the first week of July, 191 1.
The population increased rapidly from 1,500 in i860 to 5,950 in
1870, 7,176 in 1881, 9,500 in 1899 and 14,000 in 191 1. There are
now six wards, and the town is governed by a mayor, eighteen
councilmen, and a police force of eight men. The early church
records give us some of our first authentic dates
 232 Warren County. in the history of this vicinity. The
"Hallesche Nachrichten" makes mention of Lutheran services at the
Forks of the Delaware as early as 1733. The Presbytery of New
Brunswick sent missionaries in 1737 to the Forks of the Delaware, or,
as the Indians called it, Lechauwitung. A log meetinghouse was built
on what is now Brainard street, near the Morris and Essex freight
depot at a very early date and a cemetery is remembered as being
on the hill between it and the river. This is undoubtedly the church
referred to in several old surveys, one of which reads "May 27, 1762,
Surveyed a Lott in Phillipsburg, Whereon is a Lutheran Church and
Burying Ground." This earliest church became but a memory, and
"the last vestige of a marked grave was that of General John Phillips,
with a modest tablet or headstone, and that, too, has disappeared,
but rnay be found in the garret of some distant relative." When
building the Morris and Essex railroad, the workmen cut through this
old graveyard in 1867, and again, in 1906, when digging the
foundation for a part of the freight house, many skeletal remains
were found. Many years ago the site was owned by John Bach, who
used the foundation stones of the old church in the cellar of a
house, and made a present of the logs composing the church to
Henry Walters. No other church was erected in Phillipsburg until
1854, or about a century later, than the first one. During this century
Phillipsburg depended for houses of worship on Easton and on the
"Old Straw Church," erected by the Lutherans in Greenwich before
1760, and now known as St. James' Lutheran Church. The First
Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, too, served the people of that
denomination as early as 1739, and in their log meetinghouse the
missionary David Brainerd preached twice on the Sabbath,
December 9, 1744. The First Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg was
organized on December 13, 1853, at the Academy, on the site now
occupied by the Sitgreaves school building, A sermon was preached
by Rev. George C. Bush, and thirty-two became members of the new
church. The corner stone of a church building was laid in 1854, and
the building
 Warren County. 233 completed at a cost of $20,000, and
dedicated September 12, 1858. The present pastor is Rev. J.
Colclough. For many years this church possessed the only pipe organ
in the city, having installed one in 1874. The Westminster
Presbyterian Church was organized on April 27, 1886. It was formed
largely by members of the First Presbyterian Church, and was the
immediate result of the growth of the second Presbyterian Sabbath
school, which had been held in Bull's Hall for two years. The chapel
was completed for use on August 31,1 890, and the main building
was first used on December 10, 1893. Rev. E. C. Cline was pastor
until April i, 1903, when the present pastor. Rev. James Moore, was
installed. A handsome memorial pipe organ was given to the church
on February 24, 1904, in memory of Mrs. Phoebe Harris Dinsmore.
The Sunday school connected with the church numbers 247 scholars
and teachers. The First Methodist Church of Phillipsburg was
organized May 20, 1855, and the corner stone of the church was laid
August 13, of the same year. The first resident of Phillipsburg to be
converted to Methodism was Philip Reese, who was converted in
1824, while on a visit to his sister, who lived on the Susquehanna.
The first Methodist sermon was preached in his stone house in 1828,
by Rev. H. Bartine. The first class leader was named Downs, a school
teacher of Easton. The church was dedicated on October 3, 1858.
The value of church and parsonage is $35,000. Rev. R. B. Lockwood
was the first pastor. The present pastor, Rev. F. T. Hubach, follows
many other eminent predecessors. • The membership is 534, and
670 are connected with the Sunday school. A fine pipe organ was
installed in 1909. The Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church originated
from a class meeting held in the Fitch school house in 1871. The
church was organized in 1872, and in October of that year Wesley
Chapel was dedicated. The building was remodelled in 1886. The
church has a membership of 500 and property valued at $22,500.
The present pastor is Rev. O. M.
 234 Warren County. West. A fire caused by lightning
destroyed the steeple on June 13, 1 9 1 1 . • , St. Luke's Protestant
Episcopal Church was organized December 22, 1856. A handsome
stone church was consecrated by Bishop Odenheimer on June 9,
1861. The p*resent edifice was erected in 1885. Rev. Mr. Higgins Is
the present pastor. A Sunday school connected with it has 122 on its
rolls. The Church of SS. Philip and James is the second one on the
same site. The corner stone of the first was laid in i860 by Bishop
Bayley. Father O'Reilly served the parish for twenty-four years. In
1889 the present edifice was completed. There are now 3,505 souls
in the parish. Other church property in Phlllipsburg includes the
Parochial Hall, built at a cost of $22,000; the Young Men's Catholic
Club rooms, and a cemetery on Fillmore Street. The present pastor
is Rev. Patrick F. Connolly. A tower costing $15,000 was erected on
the church In 191 1. A 1,000-pound bell is a feature of the tower,
and also a clock that automatically rings the Angelus on the big bell.
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1869 by Rev. M.
H. Richards, and the church edifice was dedicated January 9, 1870.
Rev. Joseph Stump Is the present pastor. Two hundred and forty-
seven are connected with its Sunday school. St. John's German
Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized February 5, 1875, by
Rev. R. F. Weidner. Its fifty original members came mainly from Zion
Church, of Easton, Pennsylvania. Rev. Joseph Orr is pastor; 1 19 are
connected with Its Sunday school. The First Baptist Church of
Phillipsburg was organized by Rev. A. E. Francis in 1880, and a
house of worship was later erected on Main street. Rev. E. R. Tilton
is pastor of this church and of the Lincoln Street Baptist chapel.
PhlUipsburg's first school was held In a log house near BIdleman's.
Here in 1801 "Old Cohen" taught school. A stone building replaced
the earlier structure in 1 803, and was destroyed by fire In 1 8 1 2. A
new
 Warren County. 235 stone schoolhouse was then erected
near the site of the Andover Furnace. This building was replaced in
1854 by a new schoolhouse for the use of Ihrie District No. 10,
which comprised the second and fourth wards. The second school to
be opened was held in 1833 in a room in the stone building near the
Pennsylvania depot, which was occupied for many years by the
Warren Democrat, and now used as a real estate office. In 1843 ^
small brick building was erected at a cost of $500 for the use of
Phillipsburg District No. 11, comprising the first and third wards. The
Hudson Street School was built in 1852 at a cost of $3,500, and
took, the place of the smaller building. The town was made into one
school district in 1869, with three sections, and a third building was
completed in 1871, on land purchased of Henry Seagraves, at a total
cost of $46,131.84. This served for many years as a high school and
grammar school. This is now called the Freeman Building. In 1871
the Howell building was erected in the first ward, at a cost of
$4,082, and in 1873 the engine-house of the Andover Fire Company
was converted into a schoolhouse. The High School building was
completed in 1909 at an expense of $22,000. It has a fine location
on Main Street, near the older Lovell building, which was erected
fifteen years ago. The Soldiers' Monument is placed in the
immediate vicinity and presents a fine appearance. The John Firth
building was erected in 1909 at a cost of $35,000, and the Pursell
school building in 191 1 at a cost of $30,000. There are now ten
buildings devoted to the use of the public schools, which employ
sixty-two teachers, including the superintendent, Lewis Osmun
Beers. There are 2,159 pupils enrolled. Dr. John Cooper, who
practiced here from 1791 until 1794 and then followed his profession
for fifty years in Easton, was the first resident practitioner. He had
no, successor for fifty years when Dr. Southard came and practiced
here for two years. Dr. John H. Griffith has practiced here for forty-
one years, or since 1870; Dr. Isaac Barber since 1880; Dr. J. M.
Reese since 1883; Dr. R. A. Stewart and Dr.
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