Bishop Asbury preached in the evening. Here he was visited by those dis- tinguished physicians, Drs. Rush and Physic. It was my privilege to be present at the interview. Dr. Benjamin Rush, as a man, a patriot and scholar, occupied the first rank. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of

- Your truly obliged Servant S. Wright �tracts from the journals of two famous Philadelphians which bear on this subject. First, let us look at an entry of Dr. Benjamin Rush in his journal for April 7, 1784. He was returning from the first meeting of the Trustees of Dickinson College with John Dickinson

list of communicants the 19th Sunday after Trinity 1781; and that is the last record we have of the church life of Henry William Stiegel. The final years of his life are clouded in obscurity and we know not where he breathed his last or where his body lies buried. When I was preparing to speak on this

of laying the cornerstone, John W. Lansinger, Right Worshipful Grand Master of the Masonic Order by dispensation, was the presiding officer. To Mr. Lansinger, Deputy Grand Master William H. Keller (attorney and eventually a judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania), presented the Honorable David

(March 27), the decision was made to elect a Bishop. John Seybert was the unanimous choice as a successor to the founder, Jacob Albright, who had died in 1808. Let Seybert tell of the incident: "This important office unexpectedly fell to me, and on account of the importance of the office, caused me to

-wide members of the committee were Levi Hollingsworth, Samuel Morris, Robert Wharton, Benjamin R. Morgan, Henry Pratt, Michael Keppele, Zachariah Poulson, Jr., Daniel Smith, Philip Wager, William Sheaff, Godfrey Haga, John Wall, Lawrence Seckel. The state committee of the McKean forces was Peter