by Dr. Shippen and collected a large quantity of Lint from the sisters. Yours. W. B. �of Byron Wm -ger \ ry .1.2`r.cattPx• House built in 1763 by Henry William Stiegel, famous glass manu- facturer. Residence of Robert Morris and family, 1777-78. Matthew Irvine, a Pennsylvanian, was a Surgeon's Mate

Germans too saw America as the land of freedom and opportunity. One Hessian soldier who elected to remain was Henry Seybert, who was but a lad of fifteen years when he was brought here as a minion of Great Britain. His name, Henry Seibert, is found in a list of Hessian soldiers of the Regiment of Infantry

. Especially was this true of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg who brought with him to America a book of formulae of medi- cines which had proved to be efficacious; and the many entries in his journals concerning the ills of those to whom he ministered indicate that he really knew a great deal about the human body

children on the morning of Thanksgiving Day, 1863, sprang a resolve in his mind to do some- thing about the problem thus presented. The first opening for him to speak his mind on the subject came shortly thereafter at a meeting in the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. He presided at the meeting, and Henry