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Daily Intelligenrer Bicentennial Commemorative Edition Vol 2 Oct 27 1975
The Daily Intelligenrer Bicentennial Commemorative Edition Vol 2
Oct 27 1975
A Nation is Forged
The Bucks-Mont in the 19th Century: a bitter civil war endured, a search for greatness launched.
120 pages
CONTENTS
The steam train
...Doylestown branch was not planned as a commuter line. It was to have been a stop on the main trunk from Philadelphia to New York.
By L. Thomas Haertsch
Now that we have the trolley
...it provided cheaper transportation to Philadelphia and made outings to amusement parks popular.
By L. Thomas Haertsch
The new immigrants
...a kiss of the Blarney Stone starts trip that produced one of the Bucks-Mont's great Irish families.
By Sandra Bauers
The little red schoolhouse
...from the church-sponsored academies of the early 1830s grew the far-reaching school systems that played such a tremendous role in the country's development by giving an education to rich and poor alike.
By Cecilia K. Malin
Our religious heritage
...they came on horseback "to spy out the land" and found fertile fields for their missions. Thus opened the era of the church builders.
By the Rev. John R. Chisholm
In the home: beginning of freedom
...the woman at home was becoming more of a household manager manager, less of a "jack of all trades."
By Carolyn Smith
A proper 1867 wedding
...Elizabeth Kooker made the gown she wore when she exchanged nuptial vows with Louis Napolean Bonaparte Layton.
By Alice L. Gilbert
After the war, hearts became lighter
...Doylestown's Harvey Gehman and Hatboro's Charles E. Downs recall the husking and quilting bees and other nice places to meet a girl.
By Alice L. Gilbert
Unthinkable! Women, created equal?
...while Lizzie Eastburn of Pineville was writing in her diary in 1848, Cheltenham's Lucretia Mott had tea with Lizzie Stanton, and the idea was born for the first women's rights convention.
By Anita Alberts
U.S. Grant: we can claim him for our own
...general's mother grew up in Horsham, great-
grandfather married a girl from New Britain.
By William G. Shuster
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