dollars from 1808 to 1839, on the quarter dollar from 1815 to 1839, and on the dime and hadf-dime from 1809 to 1839. Robert Scott is supposed to have engraved the dies. In the old Mint there was a plaster model bearing the name E. Luigi Persico. It was of a Liberty head that very much resembled the head

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

College Hill in the 80's and 90's Memoirs of a Franklin and Marshall Faculty Daughter by Mary Belle Stahr Heller Preface My mother dictated these reminiscences at various periods dur- ing the last ten years of her life. Since her death in June, 1971 I have gone over them and assembled them into

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon

and hire myself to a driver. I'd sit behind a stiff opponent and, even though the others watched me like a hawk, I'd usually get away with using those sig- nals. This earned big money for me, a quarter at least. It was about this time that I was called to testify in court. In those days if you walked

the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a

of America, when no others dared to, boldly rose to defend the liberty of a poor printer against the King's charge of libeling the Govern- ment. Though the Court, many of the people and even the jury, at first, were against him, Andrew Hamilton had the humble printer acquitted. For this noble stand