son of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he became an inter- national figure and one of the world's great men of original achieve- ments. In 1878, J. W. Reigart writes, "Fulton's family asked Washing- ton Irving to write a biography of Fulton. After a tentative endeav- or, Irving gave up the undertaking

note that philanthropic Pennsylvania citizens of the early 1800's helped, together with those of many other States, to establish the present prosperous state of Liberia. And Dr. Moore was one of the Lancaster men who worked for this cause. His drug store, we read, was just above John Michael's tavern

pioneered in the field of Social Service and founded the Massachusetts State Board of Public Education. So, due to Harriet Lane's sponsorship, there began to emerge an intellectual, politically minded, patrician group, which helped, after the Civil War, to form move- ments for reform in industrial America

their way to freedom in the northern states and Canada. Paul A. W. Wallace, in his new work, "Pennsylvania, The Seed Of The Nation," refers to the so-called Underground Railroad, which operated from the eastern seaboard as far west as the borders of Ohio. It was par- ticularly active in Pennsylvania and