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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1882, Vol. 6 The Fourth Walk on the Germantown Road extended from Fisher's Lane northwardly to Wister's Big House. 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 reconstru...

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...

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 33Fort Nassau to a condition of defence, and was charged on this account with extravagance in the expenditure of public funds.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...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4: Part 1 The last two articles, one of which relates to Natural History, and the other to Statistics, are but collaterally within the province of an Historical Society. The last, to a certain extent, may be considered more directly within it, as far at least, as regards the times that are past, and as to the present time, in things that are susceptible of change, and their ...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 22 President from 1885 to 1890, a director of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia from 1888 to his death, and a director of the Commercial National Bank. 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...

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1917, Vol. 41 Bibliographical and Descriptive Notes on the Issues of the Journal of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 177 6-1790. By Augustus H. 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...

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1905, Vol. 29 Until a decade and a half ago the fact that the same great scene, as had animated Trumbull's brush, had several years earlier inspired another painter, had been so entirely lost sight of as to have been virtually unknown, when, in a dark corner of the old Boston Museum, on Tremont Street, the writer discovered the painting of The Congress Voting Inde pendence, begu...

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Excerpt from Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Late Old Residents' Association: During the First Five Years Few sections of our country open a more pleasing and varied field of study and research to the historian than Western Pennsylvania. Commencing with the mound-builders of pre-historic times, and passing down through the Lanni Lenape and other aboriginal tribes to the day when the last remnant ...

Excerpt from Inauguration of the New Hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: March 18, 1884 The new hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is situated at the southwest corner of Thirteenth and Locust Streets, Philadelphia. The main portion of the building was erected by the late John Hare Powel, in 1832, for a residence. It was purchased in 1836 by Gen. Robert Patterson, who resided there until his death in 1881. The house st...

Excerpt from The Formal Opening of the New Fireproof Building of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, April 6-7, 1910 Prior to the ceremonies, the visitors spent their time going through the spacious building, examining the rare books, collections of paintings and relics, in Stille Hall, Hall of Governors, Gilpin Library, and the priceless collections in the Manuscript Department, the Assembly Hall, and rooms of the officers of the Society...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 3 A few months ago Pittsburgh mourned the death of its great philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. Today it is called upon to honor the memory of a man who was at one time associated with Mr. Carnegie, and like his former partner, was a great public benefactor. Henry Clay Frick was born in Western Pennsylvania, and was of the blood of those Germans who with the English Quakers organized ...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 of 2 The office of a historical society is by no means confined to the revival of the neglected and decayed memorials of former years. Amid our regrets for the successive and irreparable loss of those precious records of our ancestors which time awhile had spared, and which we would fain rescue from oblivion, to be completed, compared, and explained, it is perhaps an injus...

Excerpt from Proceedings at the Annual Dinner: Of the New England Society of North Eastern Pennsylvania, 1900Of these signers John Carver was made governor, and there seems to be less known of him in history than many of the others.To this little band of pilgrims all true New Englanders will give most hearty praise for their courage, fortitude and endurance shown in the beginning of the history of our country.About the PublisherForgotten Books...