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Keystone
Chronicles Pennsylvania Profiles Volume Fifteen by
Patrick M. Reynolds This, the final book in the series, tells
how Pennsylvania came up with its state symbols; how professional
football began; the lost treasure of Kinzua; Galusha Grow, Speaker
of the House during the Civil War; counties that never were;
James Wilson, a lawyer entrepreneur who developed Schuylkill
County as source of lumber for ships and iron-making, then went
on to sign the Declaration of Independence; the Porter family
of Norristown whose sons became governors, judges, doctors, railroad
presidents, and diplomats. Famous women include Rebecca Lukens,
owner of Lukens Steel; Lydia Darragh, an American spy in the
Revolutionary War; Widow Finney, owner of the land that became
the city of Reading; and philanthropist Sallie Wilson, namesake
of Wilson College. There are innovative people such as the Philadelphia
school of carousel carvers; Eric Knight, creator of Lassie; Harold
Pitcairn, who developed the autogiro, forerunner of the
helicopter, and Frank Delong, inventor of the stenographic machine,
bobby pin, and the hook-and-eye fastener. The book concludes
with the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter, where evidence was found of
the earliest civilization in America.
8¼" x 10 5/8" 56 pages, fully illustrated,
paperbound
ISBN 0-932514-25-1
#P15 PA Profiles 15 $6.95
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