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.
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.
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
Blue book of Schuylkill County : who was who and why, in interior eastern Pennsylvania, in Colonial days, the Huguenots and Palatines, their service in Queen Anne's French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars : history of the Zerbey, Schwalm, Miller, Merkle, Minnich, Staudt, and many other representative families
The book of memories, being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the completion of Old St. Peter's Lutheran Church and the one hundred and fifty-third anniversary of the organization of the congregation
These are pictures and some photographs used in Riddle's published book of the same title.
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Illistrations, v2; -- Harry Stiff -- Grubey Sam -- Johnny Elliott -- Blind Johnny -- Hans Herr House -- Old Buildings in Lancaster City -- Old Waterworks, built 1836 -- CityHall, as appeared in 1835 -- Frank R. Diffenderffer -- West King Street about 1850 -- Water committee personnel, 1888 -- Centre Square -- James Hamilton -- General LaFayette -- Franklin College -- Franklin and Marshall College, 1854 -- Postlethwaite's Tavern -- W. U. Hensel --
Contents
Illistrations, v1; -- Three Clergy -- William Riddle, at age 17 -- William Riddle -- Adam Reigart -- William Penn -- John F. Steinman -- Samuel Bowman -- Benjamin Franklin -- Franklin College -- Dr. John L. Atlee -- Dr. Samuel Humes -- Christopher Hager --Old Lancaster School at Prince and Chestnut -- General LaFayette -- John Baer -- Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg -- Dr. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg -- Amos Slaymaker -- James Buchanan -- Thaddeus Stevens -- George Wolf -- Samuel F. Dale -- Joseph Ritner -- John King Findlay -- Old Lancaster Courthouse, 1787-1853 -- George Musser -- Lewis C. Jungerich -- Robert Moderwell -- John W. Forney -- Old School Buildings, South Duke Street -- John Mathiot -- John Zimmerman -- Peter McConomy -- George M. Steinman -- Rev. John S. Crumbaugh -- Lancaster School Diploma -- John Piersol McCaskey -- Common School Celebration, 1854 -- John C. Baker -- Samuel O. Nourse -- Thomas H. Burrowes -- Rev. Bernhard Keenan -- William B. Wiley -- Newton Lightner -- Alexander L. Hayes -- H.S. Gara -- J. B. Livingston -- William P. Brition -- Frederick F. Pyfer -- Christie Musser -- The Children's Home -- William A. Morton -- John W. Jackson -- Charles F. Eberman -- John I. Hartman -- George W. Zecher -- J. M. Johnston -- John Warfel -- William O. Marshall -- East Lemon Street School, 1881-- Lancaster City School Superintendent, R.K. Buehrle -- Daniel G. Baker -- Dr. John Levergood -- Thomas F. McElligott -- Marie E. Gill -- James P. Wickersham -- Dr. D. R. McCormick -- Dr. E. E. Higbee -- South Duke Street School Building, 1892 -- South Mulberry Street School, 1892 -- David McMullen -- George Forrest -- Interior Strawberry Street School -- H.A. Schroyer -- Matilda Zug -- Stevens Highschool -- Nathan C. Schaeffer -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Lancaster Highschool Orchestra -- North Queen Street in the 1840s -- Postlethwaite, First Court held 1730 -- Program for President Taylor's Reception, 1849 -- Penn Square -- The Pequea Creek -- The Conestoga and Bathing Resorts -- Robert Fulton -- Mennonite Brick Meetinghouse -- Birthplace of Robert Fulton -- Oak Hill -- Wright's home at Columbia -- Bleak House -- W. U. Hensel's Birthplace, Quarryville, PA -- Strasburg School -- Lutheren Church, Manheim, PA -- House at Fairview -- The Catharine Long Home -- Linden Hall Seminary, Lititz, PA
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Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer printing house, 1910. Cherished memories of old Lancaster--town and shireLancaster History Library - Book974.815 LACI R543 Pic.
