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
Papers read before the Lancaster County Historical Society ... September 6, 1918.
Notes
"Minutes of the September meeting": p. 123-124.
With: The Times of Jasper Yeates / C. I. Landis. [S.l. : s.n. , n.d. -- Benjamin West and the Royal Academy / C. I. Landis. [S.L. : s.n.], 1926 -- Bejamin West and his visit to Lancaster / C. I. Landis. Lancaster, Pa. : Conestoga Publishing Company, 1925 -- Thaddeus Stevens: a letter written to the Daily New Era, Lancaster, Pa. / C. I. Landis. New Era Printing Company, 1926 -- Items in the Pennsylvania Gazette concerning Lancaster County / C. I. Landis. Lancaster, Pa.: [s.n., 1918 -- A picture of Washington by a Lancaster artist / C. I. Landis. Lancaster, Pa., s.n., 1918.
Summary
The article first addresses the building of the market house adjacent to the land on which the City Hall was later built.
Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution : at "Indian Rock", Williamson Park, near "Rockford", the home of General Edward Hand, M.D., Friday P.M., September 20, cmmxii
Program from the ceremony to commemorate Lancaster County's involvement in the American Revolution. The order of events in the ceremony is included. Also includes a chronology of Lancaster County's participation in events related to the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, citing General Edward Hand's activities. A genealogy of the Hand family is included in the program.
