The life of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin / written by himself ; together with a number of his humorous, moral, and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator
delivered by Wallace McCamant before the Pennsylvania Club of Portland, Oregon on April 4th, 1916, the one hundred and twenty-fourth anniversary of Mr. Stevens' birth.
Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C., on the tenth of June, 1811, in the fifty-second year of her age : with extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers, and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776
"A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy." [from WorldCat.org]
Recollections of the old borough of Chester from 1834 to 1850; of the streets, houses, places of business, inhabitants, and general surroundings; taking in part of the Old Wilmington Road and of the Old Concord Road
Includes short biographies of Rev. John Russell, Hon. Simeon B. Chase, Joseph Henderson, Barry Spangler. Also includes an address by Geo. F. McFarland to the voters of Pennsylvania, and the Prohibition Campaign song.
At head of title: Prohibition Party of Pennsylvania.
