first great highway from the coastal cities. Naturally, Lancaster was among the first towns to secure postal facilities. In this section the first and nearest available postal facilities were in far-off Philadelphia, at which point letters for settlers in the "back country" �The Pennsylvania Gazette of

that ter- ritory. From the year 1853 until the panic of 1857, John Brandt, Sr., with his sons, Abe and John, Jr., conducted the Works, and manufactured the fol- lowing twenty-seven engines for the State Railroad, which later came into the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This list

, in the neighborhood of his home. He was selected by Colonel Thomas A. Scott as engineer of the United States military railroads in Northern Virginia, with headquarters at Alexandria. In October, 1861, he was transferred to the Pittsburgh Divi- sion, Pennsylvania Railroad, where he remained until

proprietary med- icine on which the tax was required to be paid. Here is the interesting story of the men, the medicine and the stamps they used. BENJAMIN MISHLER was born in Reamstown, Pennsylvania, sixteen miles northeast of Lancaster on the Reading Pike. He first saw the light of day on August 12, 1814

the Academy of Penn­ sylvania and the University of Edinburgh. Adam held the Professorship of 13 From Trinity Lutheran burial records. THE BOROUGH FATHERS 53 Botany and Materia Medica, and afterwards of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1797. Frederick

William Penn in The Conestoga Valley By M. LUTHER HEISEY Pennsylvania, Keystone State of the Union, was brought into existence by a strange course of events—an existence marked from the very start by all the elements making for "virtue, liberty, independence"—a state's motto not carelessly chosen

, Camden, N. J., 1938. 2 History of American Manufacturers, by J. Leander Bishop. 2a Dwight’s Travels, vol. 1, p. 450, in Fackenthal Library, Lancaster, Pa. 23 The Shenandoah Pottery, by A. H. Rice and John Baer Stoudt, Stras­ burg, Va., 1929, p. 271. 3 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, “Some