. Armed with a letter of introduction to Simon, the father of the bride, Sexias made his way to Philadelphia. Sexias later, as leader of Shearith Israel in New York, would become famous for �closing the synagogue and fleeing with the Torahs during the British occupation of New York during the

, the company abandoned plans to produce the tractor.11 For almost two years the Kreider Machine Company continued in business, building gasoline engines and doing repair work, with a specialty of automobile work. Then, in early 1908 the company announced that it would manufacture two vehicles, known as

, p. 1. �Isaac Broomell $4,962.37, and the remaining $537.63 went for pay- ment of a widow's dower against the real estate. 13 The Christiana Machine Company retained this partnership structure until 1889, with occasional changes being made relative to the individual inter- ests of the Broomells

Ellipses, the Black Masses, and Local Elan: A Review of the Sources for a History of the Ante-Bellum Negro in Southeastern Pennsylvania by Carl D. Oblinger Commenting on the black masses in Louisiana nearly a cen- tury ago, the black sociologist, W. E. B. DuBois, noted in 1935 that "historians