to, dur- ing and after the Revolutionary War, but they established and maintained for many years what was known as "The Latin School" on a Fishing Creek farm, in Drumore township. This in- stitution gave an impulse to higher education that has lasted ever since. It sent scores of young men from Lower

creek. On these periodical Journeys Mr. Hensel has been accompanied by many of our own citizens and by distinguished strangers. The late George Nauman, W. A. Atlee and W. B. Middleton were frequent participants; Vice President Stevenson, Supreme Court Justice Sam'l G. Thompson, United States Con- �sul

, boarding and sleeping there and then they were building him a saw mill on Pine! Creek, which ran through his extensive farm. Four 0£ his slaves were Noah Buley and Joshua Hammond-whose time was nearly up -and two younger, about twenty-one years old, named Nelson Ford and George Hammond who had six or seven