Although our high school history books told us – truthfully – that the followers of many sects sought religious refuge in colonial America, and that some influential leaders, such as William Penn in Pennsylvania and Roger Williams in Rhode Island, promoted religious pluralism and tolerance, ...
In 1732Benjamin Franklinestablishes his own printing office and becomes the publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Among his publications,Poor Richard’s Almanacbecomes the most famous. Alois Senefelder inventslithographyin 1796 and uses it as a low-cost method for printing theatrical works. In a mo...
in the words of an associate, "he spent all his money and died." Rights to the Auto-Skooter design were sold to Designs International in Dallas, and the remaining parts inventory was sold piecemeal by the Lusses' last landload in Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania. Majestic Manufacturing of ...
The company even opened a second furniture plant in Pennsylvania in 1949.Shwayder Trunk again converted its manufacturing facilities for war-time production during the Korean War of the 1950s. Although part of that decade was spent building things like bombs and rocket carriers, the brothers ...
We were charged with conspiring against the lives of the before-mentioned persons: -- and all this for the sin of desiring to go to Pennsylvania to live with our families. Orson Hyde (who is now in St. Louis, and wgo is calculating to preach to the good people of this city on ...
A gold dipstick was inserted by Vaughn Beals into the first non-AMF motorcycle to roll off the assembly line at York, Pennsylvania. Service Notes / Recommendations: The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) was expanded to 17 digits including codes for country of origin, maker, bike weight, engin...
and my brother Joseph. He occupied himself part of the time working on the farm, and part of the time in Pennsylvania where he courted a young lady by the name of Emma Hale, whom he afterwards married. At the end of the appointed time he went and obtained the plates which were ...
With regards to the rattlesnake’s historical adoption as a symbol of the strength of American independence, Benjamin Franklin phrased it best in his essay published by thePennsylvania Journal(quotepulled from this source); I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other anima...
People liked to say that the names of lunch room chains in the early 20th century offered a lesson in geography. There were Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Iowa, Manhattan, Maryland, Milwaukee, New York, Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, St. Louis, and Utica Lunches, ...
William Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, John Rutledge of South Carolina, and other prominent colonials met for 18 days.6They then approved a "Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists," stating the delegates’ joint position for other colonists to rea...