Commemorative biographical encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania : containing sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early Scotch-Irish and German settlers
"In the compilation of the biographies we were ably assisted by William H. Egle ... Rev. A.S. Dudley ... Harry I. Huber ... and Miss R.H. Schively"--Prefatory note.
Chapters : The Fugitive slave act --- The Result --- War --- The Sequel --- The Testimony At The Hearing --- The Hearing Resumed --- Thaddeus Stevens Scores A Point --- A Western View --- The Trial For Treason --- Specification Of Charges --- The Evidence --- The Trial Continued --- Testimony For The Defense --- Judge Grier's Charge To The Jury --- The Verdict And Comments --- The Hero Of The Riot --- William Parker's Story
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African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Summary
The book title refers to the violent action to prevent the capture of certain escaped slaves living in Christiana, Pa. in 1851.
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session
Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821. Compiled and translated from records in the archives and from the written protocols
Founded in Jan. 1842, by Charles J. Peterson, this women's magazine included serial installments, short stories, poems, patterns, publisher's notes, and book reviews. Among its contributors were Mrs. Ann S. Stephens and Emily H. May Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Andree's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three Swedish expedition members S. A. Andree, Knut Fraenkel, and Nils Strindberg perished. Andree, the first Swedish balloonist, proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from Svalbard to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the race for the North Pole. [from Wikipedia]
