Achievement, Technology and Worship
52 Ancestors - Achievement - Technology - Worship Johann Cristopher Sauer (1695-1758) and son Christopher Sauer the 2nd (1721-1784) My 6th and 5th great-grandfathers I have decided to combine the next three categories of this project into one document, as all three fit together with the remarkable lives of this father and son team. These two men, together and separately, accomplished so many things during their lifetimes that it defies reason in today’s world. They did it all without the benefit of the tools we take for granted in the 21st century. Johann Christopher Sauer (he Americanized his surname to Sower upon arriving in the colonies) arrived in the port of Philadelphia in 1724 with his wife and 3 year old son Christopher Sower “the younger.” Johann Christopher Sower the 1st was born in Ladenburg Germany in 1695. He made his home in Germantown, PA. In his younger years in Germany, he was a tailer, but once in America he set that aside and began making clocks, and...