to each Pennsylvania regiment as it passes into service, and on their return the battles in which they participated are to be marked on the flags, which will be filed forever in the archives of the state." This promise was faithfully kept, and the flag of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, with the names of

that ter- ritory. From the year 1853 until the panic of 1857, John Brandt, Sr., with his sons, Abe and John, Jr., conducted the Works, and manufactured the fol- lowing twenty-seven engines for the State Railroad, which later came into the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This list

, in the neighborhood of his home. He was selected by Colonel Thomas A. Scott as engineer of the United States military railroads in Northern Virginia, with headquarters at Alexandria. In October, 1861, he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Divi- sion, Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until

first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

proprietary med- icine on which the tax was required to be paid. Here is the interesting story of the men, the medicine and the stamps they used. BENJAMIN MISHLER was born in Reamstown, Pennsylvania, sixteen miles northeast of Lancaster on the Reading Pike. He first saw the light of day on August 12, 1814

the Academy of Penn­ sylvania and the University of Edinburgh. Adam held the Professorship of 13 From Trinity Lutheran burial records. THE BOROUGH FATHERS 53 Botany and Materia Medica, and afterwards of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1797. Frederick

Council of Pennsylvania, died in Lancaster, May 23, 1778, and by request of the church council the remains were buried within Trinity Church, in front of the old altar and pulpit. Major General Thomas Mifflin, Governor of Pennsylvania, passed away on January 19, 1800. and his remains are interred by the