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Penns Ylvanla Magazine THE Penns ylvanla Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXXV 'heHistorical Societyof Pennsylnia 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 2001 CONTENTS ARTICLES Page William Irvine and the Complexity of Manhood and Fatherhood in the Pennsylvania Backcounry Judith Ridner 5 Liberty, Tyranny, and Ethnicity-The German Reformed "Free Synod" Schism (1819-1823) and the Americanization of an Ethnic Church Steven M. Nolt 35 Rhetoric and Identity in Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia Jacqueline Bacon 61 The National Miners Union: Communism and Miners in the PennsylvaniaAnthracite Walter T. Howard 91 Redeeming the Captives: Pennsylvania Captives anong the Ohio Indians, 1755-1765 Matthew C. Ward 161 Drama in the Courroom, Theater in the Streets: Philadelphia'sIrish Riot of 1831 Francis W. Hoeber 191 Unhappily Yoked: Hugh Scott and Richard Nixon Dean J. Koflowski 233 Horace Trumbauer:A Life Frederick Platt 315 The Would-Be Philadelphian:Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Author and Antiquarian Bradley C. Brooks 351 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS A James Peale Puzzle: Captain Allen McLane's Encounter with British Dragoons Edith McLane Edson 376 EDITORIAL Ian M. G. Quimby 313 BOOK REVIEWS 125, 267, 393 INDEX Conrad Woodall THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS Chair COLLIN F. MCNEIL Vice Chairs MICHAEL D. BENJAMIN GEORGE W. CONNELL WELD COXE CHARLES E. MATH ER M Secretary SANDRA L. CADWALADER Treasurer STEPHEN P. MULLIN Councilro JOHN A. BAIRD,JR. LOUISA W. SELLERS DEBORAH D. BISHOP THOMASJ. SUGRUE MARY MAPLES DUNN PAGE TALBOTr SARAH BARRINGER GORDON AUDREY C. TALLEY NELSON G. HARRIS WILLIAM G. WARDEN Mf EuzA COPE HARRISON DANIELJ. WHELAN JOHN J. HASLErT II BINNEY H. C. WIETLISBACH WILLIAM L HIRES JACK FRIEDLAND, Emeritus ROBERT H. LEE,JR. BRUCE H. HOOPER, Emeritus HOWARD H. LEwIS DAVID W. MAXEY, Emeritus CHARLES W. NICHOLS RUSSELL F. WErIGLEY, Emeritus RICHARD P. RICHTER HARRISON M. WRIGHT, Emeritus HON. JAMES R. ROEBUCK HON. W.THACHERONGSiX E-off& STAFF PRE1SIDE:NTS OFF1ICE DAVID MOLTYE I IANSE:N, PedntadCEO RANDEEDroN diisrtv Assistanjt to the President NANCY ADAMNsDRF Director of Insiutional Planning and Advancement JuornlI KLEFIN FRANC Is, Director of Conmmniy and Volunteer Relations ADMINI.STRAniON RONALD MEDFORD), Senior Research Serviesa Business 0411cc KELL CLI c Research Services Associate PENELtOPE, BAD ER, Controller/Business BRANDON SPA RKS, ResearchSerisAsoat AManrager JAC K IUILE, ibirairyAssistant VERENA STICHE71R, Aicoantantlfookkeepe~r FLOP-,\ LESER Accounting Clerk AJel o Collctions Preservationj and Backlog ProLcs-sing Planmning Project Padiiic ALLANJ.JACKSON, PacilstieiMnager WILLIAm McGOLDRw(K, Assistant Eailincs MnI-),LOs, Teamn Leader/Project Maer ROBERT W. 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GEIG(ER, M ember Servces and Events Coord jiator Artifact Alanagemnri KRITEN FROEHLICH, Artifac tColcis ajnager Graphics, JOm.DAN RO)CKI'ORD, Grajphics Assistant Public inftormation, Louis MEIAPhotograipher kill lARD ROMINIECKI, Publc hIformationl Ottftcr Referencr Services DANIEL ROLPH, H-ead of Referenic Services Wcbulte MAx E, MOELLER, Reference Li;braiain RJCH ARD)J, U RBAN%,Website Coordinator Research Services LAUR F .BEAROsLEY, Hiead otResearch Servvres Staff' is of Septrem)ber 28, 2001 INDEX 2001 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 290, 291 Allen, William, cited, 397 Abbey of Metten (Germany), 431 Alton railroad, 145-46 Abbott, Kate, 386 Ambrose, Douglas, book review by, 283-86 Abele, Juli;n F., 338-39, 346, 348, 349 American Architect and Building News, 396 Abercromby, James, 128 American Civil Liberties Union, 108 Abolition bill, Pennsylvania (1780), 65 American Colonization Society, 68 Abolitionists and anti-slavery violence, 280 American Communist Party: 92, 95, 99, Academy of the Protestant Episcopal 106,107-8,116-17, 119, 121, 122, 123-24; Church, 352, 353, 356- 57, 362 "Third Parry" ideology and, 92-124 Acculmration between whites and Indian American Federation of Labor, 238 captors, 171-72, 174, 178, 188-89 American Heritage, 377 Adams, Abigail, 274 American Institute of Architects, 346 Adams, John, 127, 134, 274 American Labor Party, 433 African American Civil War soldiers, images American Museum, or Repositor of of, 144-45 Ancient and Moden Fugitive Pieces, African American elite, Philadelphia, book &c., Prose ani Poetical,68-69 on, 278-79 American Plilosophical Society, book on, Af-ican American miners, 93, 97, 108-9, 112 129-31 African American service in yellow fever American public holidays, book on, 288-89 epidemic (1793), 61-90 American Revolution honks nn, 131-34, African Americans in Methodism, 139 412-15, 274-75 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 66 American Philosophical Society, 129-30 Agnew, Spiro, 252, 256, 259, 261 American suburbs, 354-55 Aladdin Co. home designs, 385-96 Americaoization and ethnic based religion, Albany Congress (1754), book on, 127-29 35-60 Albert, Peter J.. Frederick E. Ioxie, and Americanization, German Reformed Ronald loffman, edt, Native Amer- Church in, 35-60 iais and te Early Repoblic, rev., 135-37 Ames, Fisher, 275 Albright, Jacob, 202, 216 Ames, Kenneth, cited, 367-68, 369 Algonquian Indians, 163 Amherst, Jetfery, 125, 180-81, 183, 184 Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 194, 196 Anderon, Benedict, 428 Allaud et Fils, architectural decorators, 326 Anderson,John B., 263 Allegheny Observatory, 427 Anderson, Fred, Crucible of War: 77u: Allen, Richard, and Absalom Jones, A Seven Years' War and the Fare ot Narraritcof the Proceedings of the Empire in British North Anerica, Black People, During the tare Awitl 1754-1766, rev , 125-27 Calamity in Phiiadelphia, in the Year Andrews, Dee E. The M ethodists and 1793: Anita Refttion of Some Revolronarv America, 1760-1800: Censures Thrown Upon ihem in Some The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture, Lare Publications, 62-90 rev., 139-40 Anthracite coal mining, National Miners Calamit in Piidelphia,*61-90 Union in, 91-124 Baker, Bobby, 151 Anthracite Miners Union of Baker, Howard H. Jr., 239,243,250, 252-53 Pennsylvania, 106 Bali, Louis, cied, 142 Anti-ballistic missile, executive legislative Baltzecl, E, Digby, 404-5 conflict over, 241, 253 Bancan, Ignatz, 116 Anti- Federalism, book on 275-78 Bannister. Edward Mitchell, 423 Ami-slavery violence, book on, 279-8 1 Barger, (Captain), 204, 216, 217 Antiquarian interests, writing on, 356-57 Barklcy, Albcn W., 234-35 Appl, Joseph, cited, 147 Barnard, George Grey, 290 Appel, Theodore, cited, 59-60 Barnett, Isom, 181-82 Architectural books, book on, 395-97 Barnett, Jese, 181-82 Architectural design, books on, 393-94, 403- Barnett, Sara, 181-82 405 Bartky, Ian R, Selling the True Time: Architectural League of New York, 334 Ninercensh-CenruryTimekeeping in Architecture 315-49; asmaterial culture, Amenrka, rev., 427-28 304; historic, book on, 297-98, of Bartlett, Bo, 302 Univcrsity of Pennsylvania, book on Barton, William, 296 299-30(; writing on, 356-57; books on Bartrm William, book on, 270-72 393-400 lar n, Iagyp, 303-4 Ardrossan residence: 338-39; (photo.) 339 Beaux, Cecilia, 402 Arendt, Hannah, cited, 245 Betler, Rosalind J., cited, 269 Arlington National Cemetery, 430 Bell, Whitfield J., Jr., Patrnot-Improiers: Armstrong, John, 175 Biograpfical Sketches ofMemhers of Art. Civil War, book on, 143-45; material te Anicrki Philosophic Scier'. culture 'and the history of, 303; Tupper Voihne 2 1768, rev., 129-31 ware as. 305; books on, 290-91, 300-2 Belya, Stephen, cited, 423 Articles of Confederation, 414 Benedictine monasticism, 431-33 Ashton, William, 200, 219 Beijamin, Asher, 396 Astronomy in timekeeping, 427-28 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 342 Audubon, John Jamea, 138 lerccau, Le (corvette), 134-35 Augustine Sotiety, 85-86 Bergenmeyet, Ferdinand, 47 Aurora (newspapcr), 196, 212 Berkowitz, Julie S., "Adorn the Halls': Avella, Steven M., book review by, 431-33 Ilistrn of the Art Collection at Thomas Axtell, James, cited, 171 Jefferson University, rev., 300-2 Bernnd, -dwardJ.: 332; home of (photo), 332 Babits, Lawrence E., book review by, 132-34 Bethany Sunday chool, 147-48 Bacon, Jacqueline, "Rhetoric andiIdentity in Bethel Cliurch, 66 Absiom Jones and Richard Allen's Bethel, Elizabeth Rauh, cited, 62 Nairr'iive ofthe Proceedings of the Bierstadt, Albert. 399 Black People, During the Lat Awfil Bigulow, John, 424 Bilingualism in German Reformed churches, Boyd, David, 174 41, 44-54. 57, 59 Boylan, John, 107, 119, 120, 121, 122 Bill of Rights, applicability within Bone, Battle of the, commemoration of, 19th-cenniry state law, 218-19 191,193,198,202,205, 213-14,215, Billings, John, cited, 424 217, 22-23,225-26 Bingham, George Caleb, 401 "Boyne Water," song, 202, 215 Binns, John, 196 Braddock, Edward, 162. Black, Brian, Petrolia; The Landscape of Bradford, James G., cited, book on, 413-14 America's First Oil Boom, rev., 428-29 Bradley, Mark, cited, 153 Black, Fred, 151 Bradstreet,Jolin, 126, 184-85 Black hsitory, books
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