DAILY STORIES OF PENNSYLVANIA

Prepared for publication in the leading daily

newspapers of the State by

FREDERIC A. GODCHARLES

Milton, Pennsylvania

FORMER REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, STATE

SENATOR, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,

MEMBER HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF UNION COUNTY,

HISTORICAL SOCIETY LYCOMING COUNTY,

AND OTHERS

Author of Freemasonry in Northumberland

and Snyder Counties, Pennsylvania

MILTON, PA.

1924

Copyrighted 1924

BY

FREDERIC A. GODCHARLES

Printed in the United States of America

These Daily Stories of Pennsylvania

are dedicated to

MY MOTHER

THROUGH WHOM I AM DESCENDED FROM

SOME OF ITS EARLIEST PIONEERS AND

PATRIOTS AND FROM WHOM I INHERITED

MUCH LOVE FOR THE STORY OF MY NATIVE

STATE.

Frederic A. Godcharles.

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