1864-1910, Pennsylvania at Cold Harbor, Virginia : Ceremonies at the dedication of the monument erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the National Cemetery at Cold Harbor, Virginia
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.
Attributed to Frank R. Diffenderffer. Contains brief biographies of Abraham Herr Smith, James Hamilton, George Ross, William Henry, Edward Hand and Lindley Murray, all of whom have portraits hanging in the library.
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.
"This is a typescript transcription of a portion or a 531- or 663- page book (several editions) found in OCLC. The original, under the title American Boyers was authored by Charles C. Boyer. The transcription, not in OCLC, was by Fayette C. Eshleman." - Duff Harsh.