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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 28Rolling Mill at Manchester, in Allegheny County, to make iron rails. Connected with this mill were two coke furnaces, built in 1863. The company operated the works until Sep tember, 186 7, when they were leased by Springer Harbaugh. On January 1, 1870, Harbaugh, Mathias Owens took pos session as owners, and on August 1, 1874, they failed, when the manufacture of rails was ...

Excerpt from The Insurrection of the Paxton Boys, 1763-'64The Saxons are, of course, the basis of the Scottish as of the English people. The difference between them cannot be fully accounted for by difference in origin, or a different degree of intermixture of the elements from which they each originated. We must take account of the difference in soil, climate and religion. The Scot struggles with an unkindly soil, a cold and moist cli mate, h...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine, or History and Biography, 1878, Vol. 2Mmoxas prepared ron rns crxrnxxml celebration or rm: Anorrxox or Tm: Rssow'noss ansrnerrxo Isnsessnsscv.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine, or History and Biography, 1878, Vol. 2Mmoxas prepared ron rns crxrnxxml celebration or rm: Anorrxox or Tm: Rssow'noss ansrnerrxo Isnsessnsscv.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1908, Vol. 32Benjamin West's Family. The American President of the Royal Academy of Arts Not a Quaker. By Charles Henry Hart. (portraits.Diary of Clement Humphreys, of Philadelphia. By Miss Letitia A. Humphreys.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importan...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2Letters of William Penn to King Charles II. And to the Earl of Sunderland, from authenticated copies obtained in London.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

Excerpt from Banquet Given by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, December 31, 1910, to Celebrate the Ninety-Fifth Anniversary of the Birth of Major General George Gordon MeadeTn) ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of Major General George Gordon Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac from J une 28, 1868, until the disbandment of that army afier the surrender at Appomattox, was chosen as a fitting time to bring to the attention of a...

Excerpt from Banquet Given by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, December 31, 1910, to Celebrate the Ninety-Fifth Anniversary of the Birth of Major General George Gordon MeadeTn) ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of Major General George Gordon Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac from J une 28, 1868, until the disbandment of that army afier the surrender at Appomattox, was chosen as a fitting time to bring to the attention of a...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2Letters of William Penn to King Charles II. And to the Earl of Sunderland, from authenticated copies obtained in London.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recon...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1897, Vol. 21From 1710 until after William Penn's death in 1718, the home of the family was at Ruscombe, a place in Berkshire, near Twyford. It was rented by Penn, and from an expres sion in a letter of Hannah Penn, already cited, the house seems to have been a large and expensive one. Like most of the houses in which the Founder had his home in the course of his life, Ruscombe h...

Excerpt from Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1Herc now this people lived peaceably for several years without preachers or magistrates. Each one did as he thought proper. About this time I became very sick and expected to die, and was willing to die, for my stepmother was indeed a stepmother to me. By her in¿uence my father treated me very harshly, I had no other friend, and had to bear hunger and cold. I often thoug...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1883, Vol. 7In 1848, when Gen. William 0. Butler was the Democratic candidate for vice-president Of the United States on the ticket with Gen. Lewis Cass, Francis P. Blair, Sen., of The Globe, published some reminiscences of the Butler Family, which furnish the principal material for the following sketch of the Butler Family of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War and th...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 8AT an unusually large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia and adjoining districts, con vened on the 26th of August, 1814, in the State House yard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1899, Vol. 23 The rector's wife, whom Franklin describes as a good natured, chatty old lady, also could remember many per sonal characteristics of members of the family. Banbury was visited a few days later, where he met the husband of his deceased cousin Jane, daughter of John Franklin, and in the church-yard copied the inscription on the gravestone of his grandfather, Thomas ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: Being a Republication In connection with this intimation they desire to say that they will feel obliged for copies of any letters of Mr. Du Ponceau, with which those possessing the originals may be disposed to favor them. The publication of the History of the Town of Beth lehem, and which the trustees believed they would before this have been able to present, has been de...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1907, Vol. 31 Remke, to Matthias Van Bebber, a Dutch merchant, who came to Germantown in 1687, son of Jacob Isaacs Van Bebber, one of the first Crefeld purchasers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 43 Among the Sons of Delaware who were most noted for patriotism during the Revolutionary struggle, Caesar Rodney and his brother Thomas stand in the front rank. Caesar is so well known as' one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence that no further mention of him is needed for the purposes of this paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1910, Vol. 34 While the British were in possession of the city of Phila delphia we find from Howe's Narrative that, aside from certain provmmal corps raised, they obtained but three troops of light dragoons, consisting of one hundred and thirty-two troopers, and one hundred and seventy-four real volunteers from Jersey, under Colonel Vandyke. From this obscure statement military ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1887, Vol. 11 July 23, 1778. By Henrietta 0. Ellery William Penn's Plans for a Union of the Colonies, February 8. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1895, Vol. 19Rev. William Rogers, DMD (portrait) 96, 251, 507 Letters Relating to the Death of Major General Anthony Wayne.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...