John Beck's school in Lititz, and at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. When sixteen years of age, he entered �his father's apothecary shop as an apprentice clerk. In 1841, then nineteen years old, he was admitted as a partner with his father and the firm name changed to J. F. Heinitsh & Company. Once

organized military forces left for Camp Hancock near Augusta, Georgia. Included were the 4th Pennsylvania Infan- try under Colonel Edward C. Shannon, the 4th Regiment Sanitary Detachment under Major Heller and Ambulance Company No. 3 (later known as No. 111) under 1st Lieutenant Charles P. Stahr. One month

in Thompson's Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion, July to December, 1775, and then Surgeon of Lee's Battalion of Light Dragoons. It was while serving in the latter outfit, that Dr. Irvine wrote to Dr. Potts, and while the letter was written from the town of York, it interests us because of the reference to

, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it

of the collecting committee called two or three times at his lodgings; but he was 19 See History of Union Fire Company. �O z STABLE OF PHILIP KLEIN HOME and BLACKSMITH SHOP of PHILIP KLEIN TAVERN HOUSE of JOHN HATZ OCCUPIED by GEO. KONIG INTELLIGENCER SHOP, BOOKSTORE and HOME of WILLIAM DICKSON HOME

founder, then thirty-eight years old, arrived in Pennsylvania and immediately set up headquarters and established residence on a site of 1280 acres where he proposed to rear a great city. In advance of the arrival of Penn, those acres had been plotted for that very city which was named PHILADELPHIA by

Procession was formed in front of Franklin College, to wit: The Lightinfantry Company, commanded by Captain Atlee, in front Militia Officers of the Borough. Orator of the Day, and Gentleman appointed to read the Declaration of Independence. Secretary of the Commonwealth and Assist- ant-Secretary. State

they would see fit. To this project, which in time would be known as Washington and Jefferson College, the Assembly had already given $3000. In the lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature, a special committee reported that furniture belonging to the state "consisting of chairs, desks, writing