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Pennsylvania Magazine of HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CIII THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA 19107 1979 CONTENTS ARTICLES Page Nicholas Biddle in Europe, 1804-1807 Anne Felicity Woodhouse 3 William Bainbridge and the Barron-Decatur Duel: Mere Participant or Active Plotter? David F. Long 34 Frederic Huidekoper (1817-1892): Philanthropist, Scholar, and Teacher Bruce M. Stephens 53 "The Shallow Boast of Cheapness": Public School Teaching as a Profession in Philadelphia, 1865-1890 Richard B. Fishbane 66 The Diary of Samuel Breck, 1823-1840 Nicholas B. Wainwright 85, 222, 356, 497 William Dunlap, Colonial Printer, Journalist and Minister Mary D. Turnbull 143 Palliative for Players: The Lecture on Heads Kurt L. Garrett 166 James E. Harvey and the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts 177 Philadelphia's Catholic Herald: The Civil War Years Joseph George, Jr. 196 Thomas Wren: Ministering Angel of Forton Prison Sheldon S. Cohen 279 Pennsylvania Rifle: Revolutionary Weapon in a Conventional Wart Neil L. York 302 Dr. James Durham, Mysterious Eighteenth-Century Black Physician, Man or Myth? Charles E. Wynes 325 The Hornet's Nest at Harrisburg: A Study of the Pennsylvania Legislature in the Late 1870s Robert Harrison 334 Dr. Shenk's Missing Series of the Pennsylvania Archives Roland M. Baumann 415 The Trials of John Fries Jane Shaffer Elsmere 432 The Making of a Progressive Engineer: Frederick W. Taylor Daniel Nelson 446 Philanthropy and Black Public Education in Delaware, 1918-1030 Robert J. Taggert 467 Walking with the Lord: Rachel Bahn Timothy J. Lockyer 484 REVIEWS 114, 252, 383, 528 INDEX SS3 iii THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS President HAROLD D. SAYLOR Vice-Presidents THOMAS C. COCHRAN CAROLINE ROBBINS ALLYN R. BELL, JR. Secretary HOWARD H. LEWIS Treasurer GEORGE E. NEHRBAS Counsel HENRY N. PLATT Councilors CHARLES L. BLOCKSON WILLIAM L. GRALA NATHANIEL BURT MRS. F. OTTO HAAS GEORGE A. BUTLER PHILIP KLEIN JOHN CADWALADER FRANK P. LOUCHHEIM D. HUGHES CAUFFMAN FRANK C. P. MCGLINN GEORGE W. CONNELL IV MRS. SAM S. MCKEEL ROBERT W. CRAWFORD CHARLES E. MATHER III MRS. JOHN H. CURTIS WILLIAM D. RAVDIN RICHARD S. DUNN A. ADDISON ROBERTS EDWARD J. DWYER GEORGE X. SCHWARTZ MRS. KENNETH GEMMILL ISADORE M. SCOTT E. NEWBOLD SMITH v STANDING COMMITTEES Committee on Finance WM. RICHARD GORDON, Chairman GEORGE W. CONNELL IV GEORGE E. NEHRBAS CHARLES E. MATHER III GEORGE A. BUTLER ALLYN R. BELL, JR. Committee on Library and Collections NATHANIEL BURT, Chairman CHARLES L. BLOCKSON FRANK C. P. MCGLINN E. NEWBOLD SMITH MRS. JOHN H. CURTIS Committee on Hall and Buildings D. HUGHES CAUFFMAN, Chairman WILLIAM D. RAVDIN MRS. F. OTTO HAAS ISADORE M. SCOTT Committee on Membership and Activities JOHN CADWALADER, Chairman CHARLES E. MATHER III GEORGE A. BUTLER FRANK P. LOUCHHEIM MRS. KENNETH GEMMILL EDWARD J. DWYER Committee on Nominations PHILIP KLEIN, Chairman A. ADDISON ROBERTS WILLIAM L. GRALA MRS. SAM S. MCKEEL HOWARD H. LEWIS Committee on Publications THOMAS C. COCHRAN, Chairman E. P. RICHARDSON CAROLINE ROBBINS RICHARD S. DUNN NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT vi STAFF NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT, Director Emeritus and Editor JAMES E. MOONEY, Director NANCY L. M. ROBERTSHAW, Assistant to the Director Reading Room JOHN H. PLATT, JR., Librarian WALDO A. TULK PHYLLIS ANN K. BRATTON MAXINE BRENNAN Manuscript Department PETER J. PARKER, Head DIANE M. TELIAN LINDA STANLEY MARC S. GALLICCHIO Catalogue Department CAROLYN JONES GLENYS A. WALDMAN NANCY J. HALLI JANIS PUGH Photo-reproduction Department Louis W. MEEHAN Conservation Department HOLLY MAXSON Treasurer's Office PATRICIA H. BULLOCK, Assistant to the Treasurer GAIL KIRCHNER Membership and Museum DARTHE C. HAUCK Maintenance Staff ALBERT W. STEELE MARGARET FREELAND CHARLES COLEMAN vii THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CIII January, 1979 NO.I Publications Committee THOMAS C. COCHRAN CAROLINE ROBBINS E. P. RICHARDSON RICHARD S. DUNN NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT & Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Contributors ANNE FELICITY WOODHOUSE received her doctorate in European cultural history from Stanford University and has recently completed the joint Winterthur Museum—University of Delaware program in Early American Culture. DAVID F. LONG, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, specializes in both the history of United States foreign relations and early United States naval history. He is the author of a biography of Commodore David Porter and of a forthcoming biography of Commodore William Bainbridge. At present he is completing his research on a life of Commodore James Biddle. BRUCE M. STEPHENS is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the Delaware County Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. A Drew University Ph.D., he concerns himself with American religious life and thought, especially late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American Protestantism. RICHARD B. FISHBANE, a Ph.D. candidate in American educational history at the University of Pennsylvania, serves as part-time Instructor at the University, teaching a course in the Social Foundations of Education. PRINTED IN U. S. A. by The Winchell Company, PHILADELPHIA, PA..
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