Capt. Norris Copper, who survived him. She was the sister of David C. Claypoole, who was one of the proprietors of the Pennsylvania. Packet and Daily Advertiser, the first daily newspaper set up in Philadelphia, afterwards Poulson's Daily Advertiser. He was an ensign and later lieutenant in the

the secretary, George K. Reed, to read the letter received from Hon. Benjamin Champneys, a fellow-member, who was to make an address of an historical nature. Mr. Champneys was unable to be present, but in his letter stated: "When the great principle upon which our ances- tors relied in their

circulated paper. "Amos Gilbert, Alexander H. Hood, Benjamin Herr and Henry Spiehlman, met one evening in the early part of the winter 1830-31, at the store of George Hoffman, Esq., in Strasburg, Lancaster county. The conversation turning upon the qualifications of teachers, the mode in which the children of

, pp. 163, 165. Buried in Trinity Lutheran Churchyard. DICKSON (Dixon), William: d. Jan. 10, 1823, aged 58 years. Wife, Mary. Editor and founder of the Lancaster Intelligencer. Capt. of "Lancaster Phalanx," prior to Capts. Atlee and James Humes. L. C. H. S. Pub., Vol. 35, pp. 220, 221. Buried in the

character and firmness of purpose to supply them. For this he will receive the blessings of unborn millions."—Pa. Telegraph. April 13. A check for one hundred dollars was received from Emanuel C. Reigart by John W. Forney, Henry Keller and C. Kieffer, Committee of the Mechanics' Society, toward the erection