Download or read book The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1916, Vol. 40 (Classic Reprint) written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1916, Vol. 40 Mr. President, Fellow Members of the Historical Society, and Distinguished Guests of the Bench and Bar: We have met tonight to do honor to the memory of one who for nineteen years was our Senior Vice President - from November 12, 1896, to July 4, 1915 - and who for fifty-five years was in close personal and official relationship to our active work. Beginning with a life membership in 1859, when he was but twenty-five years of age, he was elected a member of the Council in 1881, becoming President of the Council in 1883, and holding that office until his death; filling acceptably, as manifested by successive re-elections, one of the Vice Presidencies of the Society until, through the deaths of Judge Craig Biddle and Dr. Henry Charles Lea, he attained seniority in 1896, becoming at the same time a Trustee of the Gilpin Library. During all these years he was in hearty sympathy with our purposes, and by generous gifts added substantially to our treasures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.