Simon Cameron's adventure in iron, 1837-1846; new biographical material including an account of the formation and dissolution of a partnership of Simon Cameron, S.F. Headley, Samuel Humes, and Thomas McNair for the manufacture and sale of iron (principally to what is now the Pennsylvania Railroad) and its political connotations
Family records : mostly of three distinct groups and descendants of Joseph, David and Henry Bauman, who settled as pioneers in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, up to the year 1825 : each representing one of the three tribes of Christian, Peter and Jacob, respectively, who are children of the old progenitor Wendel Bauman : also an extensive history of family lineages of the early ancestors
The first air voyage in America; the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America
60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm.
Notes
"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made.
"The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59.
University of Pennsylvania Press; G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1946.
Physical Description
xi, 271 p. plates, ports. 24 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 237-264.
Summary
Thomas Henry Burrowes held the following positions: Mayor of Lancaster, PA; a member of the state legislature; Secretary of the Commonwealth of PA; State Superintendent of PA Common Schools; fourth president of Pennsylvania State University; and Superintendent of PA Soldiers Orphan Schools.
Book chapters: 1. Ancestry and early education 2. Trial Balloon 3. Opponent and defender of Common Schools 4. Burrowes educational positions 5. Educational journalist 6. United we stand 7. Normal school crusade 8. Better buildings, better schools 9. Defensive action 10. The orphan's friend 11. " A last and crowning labor " 12. As men judge him
Articles published in the Middleburgh (Pa.) Post under the heading "Brief fum Hawsa" and signed "Gottlieb Boonastiel," a character created by the author. cf. Introd. and Pref.
vii p., 1 ø., 11-322 p. incl. front. (facsim.) plates, fold. map. 20 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 240-263.
Summary
"A study of Cresap's life (1694-1790) is far more than a study of the man; it involves an examination of such subjects as Indian problems, frontier defense, French activities in the Ohio Valley, the French and Indian War, fur trade, colonial land speculation, the Ohio Company of Virginia, the conflict known as the Conojacular War (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania-Virginia disputes, and the opening of Nemacolin's road. In each of these activities, Thomas Cresap was a factor; in most, a leading figure. As a matter of fact, wherever on the frontier excitement, danger and trouble were to be found, there was Cresap. Indeed, he was often the cause of outbreaks of violence. Whether he was noble, brave, industrious, patriotic, and a valuable citizen, or as some of his contemporaries alleged, "a murderer", "thief ", "vile fellow", and "monster", he still remains a remarkable individual in the history of the colonial frontier." [from the preface]
111 pages including color frontispiece illustrations (some color) 24 x 20 cm
Summary
"The author, in selecting the background for her story, turns to the famous Ephrata Cloister in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of southeastern Pennsylvania. This cloister contains serious-minded, religious men and women who feed the soldiers and bind their wounds. They like young Stephen so much that they are especially nice to him. In return, and at considerable risk of which he thinks nothing, he eagerly volunteers to thwart a plot against the life of General Washington who is planning to visit the wounded soldiers." [dust jacket]
