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Solomon DeLong (born February 8 1849 Schnecksville Pennsylvania-February 2 1925 Allentown Pennsylvania) was a Pennsylvania German language writer and journalist. DeLong was a teacher business man and for twelve years Pennsylvania German columnist of the Allentown newspaper The Morning Call where he wrote under the pen name Obediah Grouthomel. DeLong provided the Pennsylvania German language translation of Clement Clarke Moore’s poem A Visit from St.