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Colorful
Characters of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Profiles Volume Twelve
by Patrick M. Reynolds
Little-known facts about
historical characters in Pennsylvania such as how William Penn
wheeled and dealed in real estate to develop his colony; the
struggle and failures of young Milton S. Hershey as he tried
to start his own candy-making business; the experiment to run
steamboats on the Susquehanna River and the subsequent disaster;
Frederick Stump and the massacre on Middle Creek; how the Johnson
brothers from Carbondale started the world's most famous pharmaceutical
company; the "Prop Merchants"–entrepreneurs who
sold timber to support the ceilings of coal mines; Silas Pratt's
boom town, the Pittsfield Riot; the beer well in Franklin; the
Adena giants–Indians who built mysterious mounds in Erie
County, the wild boy of Potter County; Chief Black Hawk's misadventures
in Uniontown and Phila.; the foul-ups which led tot the U.S.
Constitutional Convention, the first Swedish govs., the first
flying machine; the first washing machines; and more. 8¼"
x 10 5/8" 56 pages, fully illustrated, paperbound ISBN
0-932514-17-0
#P12 PA Profiles 12 $6.95
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