Signers And Ratifiers Of The Constitution Of The United States By MRS. CHARLES M. COLDREN Of the eight Pennsylvanians who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and became signers of that immortal document, seven are shown on the plate opposite page 178. The upper four bear a direct

, spoke most earnestly and eloquently against these arbitrary measures, and in them, we can perceive the fire of patriotism, which a few years later, flashed up into a flame of revolu- tion, With the notion of personal Government which prevailed at this time— Governor Thomas, determined to deprive him of

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

stated that "no figure typifies the history of colonial Pennsylvania as does Henry William Stiegel. He was a religious man connected with three congregations in the neighborhood. He typifies the spirit of religious liberty which the example of Pennsylvania placed in the Constitution of the United States

, in August, 1846, Sutter took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. Throughout that year and the following year, he maintained his own troops and kept order in the vast reaches of northern California. He did not receive a cent for his services during the war, nor were his soldiers

great men in history have been exceptional horsemen—Alexander the Great, Andrew Jack- son, Prince Bismark and George Washington. The meeting had scarcely adjourned, when Samuel P. Town, comman- der-in-chief of the G. A. R., and Mrs. Town, arrived at the building. The meet- ing re-convened and after

quoted. Between 1846 and 1847 his son, Dr. F. E. Melsheimer, contributed seven papers describing new North American beetles. In 1853 there appeared a Catalogue of the Descriptions of the Coleoptera of the United States, revised by Haldeman and Leconte. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer should be given some

the fertile soil. A group of exquisite carvings of human figures, fishes and animals suggested the influence of Aztec and Mayan culture from Southwest America. Dr. Herbert H. Beck thought it possible that these art objects even antedate Mayan culture, suggesting that Mongoloid immigrants, by way of

SITE OF NANTICOKE INDIAN VILLAGE MARKED. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER On Sunday afternoon, October 16th, 1932, more than four hundred mem- bers and friends of The Lancaster County Historical Society braved the rain to attend the exercises incident to the unveiling of a handsome bronze tablet marking