George Frederick Baer (September 26, 1842 - April 26, 1914) was an American lawyer who was the President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. Baer's statements on workers and labor relations became rallying cries for the unions. Most famously he wrote in a letter, later leaked to the press, "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for -- not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men of property to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country, and upon the successful management of which so much depends." Baer attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and for the last 18 years of his life he was the College's president.
CONTENTS: A NEW ENGLAND RECTORY A WESTERN COLLEGE BEXLEY HALL ANDOVER AND LAWRENCE BEGINNINGS OF THE CAMBRIDOR THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL THE UNKNOWN TEACHER BECOMING KNOWN RECOGNITION. FAME A THEOLOGICAL PORTRAIT. THE APPROACH OF A GREAT SORROW TRIALS AND VICTORIES CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS THE LIFE OF PHILLIPS BROOKs ROME WARNINGS CHICAGO THE APPEAL FOR HELP FREEDOM IN THE CHURCH HAPPINESS AND PEACE
199 p. front., illus., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) facsims. 28 cm.
Summary
A 1909 tour of the towns and places near the west branch of the Brandywine Creek, it includes Honey Brook and the railroad that once ran through it, Coatesville, Hibernia, Icedale, West Chester, Chadds Ford, and many other sites in Chester County, northern Maryland, and Delaware.
"First appeared as "The ringers of the Liberty bell". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XVIII (October, 1925), 658-67."
Andrew McNair, as the doorkeeper of the Assembly of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for 18 years, was the person who would ring the Liberty Bell during the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses, v. V, no. 3.
Contents
Contents: Early Settlement // Growth // In The Wars // Civic Affairs // Internal Improvements // Religious history // Early Education // History of trade and industry // History of the Fire Department // Appendix includes names of local Civil War participants
