Penn-Gaskell Halls of the Twentieth Century

Penn-Gaskell Halls of the Twentieth Century HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. D ATA pertaining to the Penn-Gaskell Hall descendants of William -1--/ Penn — issue of 8. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall by his second wife, Amelia Mixsell — was presented in the last issue (No. 2, 117-118) of this Magazine as part of "The Penn-Gaskell Family: Addenda to the Family of Penn." That data was limited to the information available in published works and public records. Through the interest expressed by various members of this branch of the family (the only one still closely associated with the Philadelphia area) and their generous cooperation, it is now possible to expand and amend that record, as well as previous published accounts, and to include all the twentieth-century members omitted heretofore. Of particular interest are the birth and death records entered in the Bible of Peter Gaskell and his wife Elizabeth Edwards, here published for the first time:' Births Peter Gaskell born May 19, 1764 and in May 1826 will be 62 yet of age Married Anno Domini 1793 Eliza Gaskell born Jan. 31, 1773 and E.G. will be then about 8 yrs 8t 4 months less Thomas Perm Gaskell died 19th day of November 1823 about 2 'A years before I shall be 62 yrs of age. [Children of Peter Gaskell and Elizabeth Edward.] William Penn Gaskell born Sunday 29 00 June 1794 ,The Bible descended to S. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall and is now held by his grandson, William PennGaskell Hall, Jr., of Berwyn, with whose kind permission the record is now published. The tide page in part reads: "The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testament, together with the Apocrypha. ... Printed and Published by Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market Suwet, Philadelphia, 1808." The entries occur between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the Apocrypha. There am no marriage mtries. 2 Their marriage certificate, also in the possession of Mr. Hall, reads: "This is to Certify all whom it may concern That Peter Gaskell and Elizabeth Edwards were joined together in Holy Matrimony this 3" day of November in the Year of our Lord 1793, by me Slav* Clay, Rector of the United Churches of St. Davids Radner [sic] AA" The Rev. Clay's charge included aJo, St. James' Emscopal Church, Perhosnen, where the marriage is entered incorrectly as taking place on I December. and St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Great Valley, E. Whitdand Top., Chester Co. From the wording of the above mtries, it would nem that Peter Onkel! may have enmred them in the Bible early in 1826, perhaps transferring then horn some older record. 174 Penn-Gas/cell Halls 175 Thomas Perm Gaskell born Wednesday January 6th 1796 Eliza Gaskell born Wednesday February 28. 1798 Peter Gukell Jun' born Thursday April 3. 1800 Alexander Forbes Gaskell born Monday Septem.. 20. 1802 Christiana Gaskell born Monday May 27. 1805 Jane Gaskell born Tuesday December 13 1808 Isaac Gaskell born Wednesday Jan, 9. 1811 [Children of Christiana Gas/cell and her husband William S. Halls] William Penn Gaskell Hall born November 26. 1827 Peter Penn Gaskell Hall born Tuesday March 16. 1830 [Children of Peter Penn Gas/cell Hall by his 1st wife Annie M. Missed!:] Christiana Gulielma Hall born Sunday April 19 55 1863 [entry in a new hand.] at Ashwood, Penn. [added in a different hand] Eliza Penn Gaskell Hall born February 1" 5 1865 Baltimore [added as above] Edward Swabric Hall born Wednesday January 9. 1867 [entry in a new hand.] at Ashwood, Penn° [added in another hand] Annie Maude Mixsell Hall born Vicksburg, Miss. 1869 [added as above] [Children of Peter Penn Gas/cell Hall by his 2nd wife Amelia Mixselk] Wm Penn Gaskell Hall born Jane 15. 1873 at San Antonio, Texas [added in a new hand] Peter Penn Gaskell Hall born March 14. 1875 Amelia Penn Gaskell Hall born Jassy 850 1877 Philip Penn Gaskell Hall born Sept. 24. 1878 [Child of Eliza Hall and Henry J. Hancock,] Jean Barclay Penn Gaskell Hancock born March 24. 1893 at 2023 Delancey St. Phil.. [entered in a new hand] Deaths' William Penn Gaskell departed this Life Sunday 12t0 October 1817 in the 24. Year of His Age Alexander Forbes Penn-Gaskell departed this life on tuesday the 8. of September 1829 m the 27 year of his age Christiana Gulielma Hall departed this life on monday the 29 day of March 1830 in the 24. year of her age Peter Penn-Gaskell departed this life on Saturday at four o'clock the 16. day of July 1831 aged 67 years and two months Jane Penn-Gaskell departed this life Saturday 7. July 1832 in the 24. year of her age Elizabeth Penn Gaskell departed this life Saturday the 19th day of July 1834 in the 62 year of her age Doc' Isaac Penn-Gaskell departed this life Monday the 24. day of October A.D. 1842 in the 31.4 year of his age Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall (Colonel U.S.A.) died Wednesday Feb. Pt 1905 at 4:30 A.M. in the 70 05 year of his age The death swords s. in several different handwritings. 176 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine William Perm Gaskell Hall departed this life Friday the 2° day of May 1862 in the 35th year of his age Eliza Perm Gaskell departed this life thursday November 1865 [sic] in the 67° year of her age Annie M. Hall departed this life Feby 14th 1868 [sic] aged 28 Edward Swabric Hall departed this life 1869 Annie M. M. Hall departed this life 1869 [this and the previous two entries in the same hand] Annie M. Hall died in 1869 Feb. 14. at Vicksburg, Miss. [this entry in a different hand] [Between The Apocrypha and the New Testament:] Elizabeth Edwards departed this life Tuesday October 26 0 1819 Supplementing these records, it may now be added that a year and a half after the death in 1869 of his first wife, Annie Maude Mixsell, 8. PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL (born 16 March 1830, of the above record) married his second wife, her sister AMELIA MIXSELL, born 13 November 1847, daughter of Philip Mixsell of Easton.° The ceremony was performed in San Antonio, Texas, on 13 September 1871, by the rector of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, the Reverend W. R. Richardson.' She died in East Bradford Township, Chester County, on 27 October 1925, aged seventy-eight, and was buried the following 30 October in the Lower Merion Baptist Churchyard. She had survived her husband twenty years. Their eldest child, (v.) WILLIAM PENN-GASKELL HALL, was born at San Antonio, Texas, on 15 (not 16) January 1873, according to the Bible record, and died at his home in Willistown Township, Chester County, 27 July 1927! He had married at St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on 8 October 1904 (not 8 December as previously reported), CAROLINE HARE Davis. Born at Cape May, New Jersey, 20 July 1876, daughter of Sussex Delaware Davis, she died at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 2 September 1942. ° Both she and her husband are buried at Lower Merion Baptist Churchyard. Was she the mother of Peter GaskelPs wife? Amelia MixselPs birth date is noted on a manuscript pedigree chart of the descendants of Giles Pram through his son, Admiral Sir William Penn, in the Albert Cooke Myers Collection, Chester County Historical Society, West Cluster, Pa. 7 Th, marriage is recorded in Bexar Co., Texas, Marriages, Vol. E, 3811, #3950-1/2, San Antonio, Texas. 8 His death certificate in error states he ..se horn 16 Jan. 1874, and died 29 July 1927, aged 53-6-13. The account in the West Cheater Daily Local News of his death is also in error, giving his age as 56. The numbers assigned the descendants of 8. Peter Pene-Gaskell Hall who were included in the last issue of this Magazine have been maintained in the present account of those descendants as reference aids to interested readers, but are included in parentheses in this present record. For an account of her marriage, see the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Sunday, 9 October 1904; for her obituary, see The Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, 4 September 1942. Penn-Gas/eel Halls 177 Their eldest child, (1.) MARY FLEEMING PENN-GASKELL HALL, was born at 1118 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, on 30 (not 31) December 1905.' She was married in the garden of Leventhorpe, her father's place in Willistown Township, by the rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, on 8 June 1927, to GOURMAND YARDLEY WHITE, III. He was born at Philadelphia on 2 July 1902, son of Dr. Courtland Y. White, Jr., M.D., and his wife Emily Heroy Sherwood. The marriage was dissolved in 1946, and Mr. White died at Philadelphia on 25 January 1950." Mrs. White, a member of the Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II, Philadelphia, resides in Haverford. Issue of (I.) Mary Fleeming Penn-Gas/eel! Hall and her husband Courtland Yardley White, i. COURTLAND YARDLEY WHITE, IV, b. at Philadelphia 13 April 1928. A graduate of Episcopal Academy, 1947, during the Korean War he served in the U. S. Army as private, 1st Class. He graduated from Haverford College in 1956, and m. at the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Minneapolis, Minn., on 7 September 1957, SUSAN SWAIN OPSTAD, b. in Minneapolis 24 February 1936, daughter of Raymond Eugene Opstad and his wife Helen Evelyn Swain of Minneapolis. A descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower Compact, she was graduated f corn Bryn Mawr College, 1958, corn laude, and received her M.A. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Mr. White is doing graduate work at that university where he teaches the Humanities. His wife, while doing further graduate work there, is a teaching associate in the Department of Political Science. Issue: I. COURTLAND Y. WHITE, V. b. at Minneapolis, 2 March 1964.. GULIELMA PENN-GASKELL WHITE, b. at Philadelphia 16 April 1930; m. at Philadelphia by Magistrate Nathan N. Beifel on 4 May 1956, DR. MAX KROOK, b. at Standarton, South Africa. Culielma graduated from Radcliffe College, 1952, and received her M.A. in Elementary Education from Harvard University, 1964, She has taught remedial reading in the Boston Institute of Reading, and currently is teaching and tutoring as a volunteer in Roxbury and in the Arlington Public School. Her husband received his doctorate from Cambridge University, England, and is now Professor of Astrophysics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard. They reside in Arhngton, Massachusetts. No issue. The second child of (v.) William Penn-Gaskell Hall, Sr., and his wife Caroline Hare Davis, is (2.) WILLIAM LEVENTHORPE PENN-GASKELL HALL, JR., born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 9 Octob*r 1908. This corrects her birth date and full IMMO, SI confirmed by her birth certificate, on record at the Bureau of Vital Statistics, City Hall Annex, Philadelphia. His death notice is in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 January 1950. He married 2nd, Helm Schloss, and had issue by her rwin children: Peter Sherwood White md Kate Elizabeth White. ii As per his birth certificate on file in the Division of Public Health, Section of Vital Statistics, Minnow& 178 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine He graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1927, and received a B.S. in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1931/32. Until the advent of World War II, he participated in national and international figure-skating competitions. Stationed at Ft. Monroe, Virginia, in 1943, when he held the rank of first lieutenant, he was commanding officer of the 3rd Training Battery, Coast Artillery School Detachment, was a member of the school's staff and faculty, and on the Coast Artillery Board. His active service during the war extended from 1942 to 1946; in 1960 he graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and was retired as lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army Reserves, after twenty-seven years of service. He has been associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, since 1935, where he is an engineer in the Engineering Research Division. He married first, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, 19 September 1936, ANNAH COLKET McKim, born at Radnor, Pennsylvania, 26 March 1917, daughter of Edward S. McKaig and his wife Annah Colket French. The marriage was dissolved in 1958." Issue of (2.) William Leventhorpe Penn-Gas/cell Hall by his Ist wife Annah Colket McKaig: i. JOANNAH COLKET HALL, b. at Bryn Mawr, Pa., 23 September 1941; hope. at St. Martin's P. E. Church, Radnor. She attended the Shipley School and graduated from the Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School and from Bennett College, making her debut in 1959 at a dance at the Radnor Hunt Club. She m. at Old St. David's P. E. Church (Radnor), 16 February 1963, CHARLES MARSHALL GLASS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney V. Glass of Grange Farm, West Chester, Pa.. They were divorced without issue in 1965. On 2 May 1959, (2.) William Penn-Gaskell Hall married secondly, at the Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, Bucks County, OLWE ELIZABETH THOMAS, born in Warren, Pennsylvania, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Stanley Thomas of Warren. A graduate nurse anesthetist of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, during World War II she was a member of the group at that institution who pioneered applications of spinal anesthesia. Mr. and Mrs. Hall reside in Willistown Township, Chester County." Annah Colket Hall married 2nd, at Towson, Md., 7 July 1919, Dr. John D. Gadd, front whom she was divorced without further issue. For an account of their marriage, see the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 17 February 1963. gagement was announced in the West Chester Daily Local Nero lt December 1962. The en- Originally called Leventhorpe, for time their residence wus known as Happy Valley Farm, then Rebel Fog Fenn, and is now known as Little Ashwood. Penn-Gas/cell Halls 179 Issue of (2.) William Leventhorpe Penn-Gas/cell Hall by his 2nd wife Olive Elizabeth Thomas: CHRISTIANA ELIZABETH PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at Bryn Mawr, Pa., 2 November 1960. iiL PETER THOMAS PENN-GASRELL HALL, b. at Bryn Mawr, Pa., 9 Janu- ary 1965. The second son of 8. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall by his second wife Amelia Mixsell was (vi.) PETER PENN-GASKELL HALL, JR. Born in New York City 14 March 1875, he died unmarried without issue in Philadelphia 26 April 1962, as reported in the last issue of this Magazine (p. 117). A member of the Franklin Institute, he was awarded their Edward Longstreth Medal in 1936 for "the encouragement of invention." He also was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the American Ordinance Association. He had retired from business in 1956.' His sister, (vii.) AMELIA PENN-GASKELL HALL, third child of 8. Peter Penn-Gaskell and his second wife Amelia Mixsell, was also born in New York City on 8 January 1877. She married in Philadelphia at the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul, on 10 December 1902, RICHARD PHILIP MACGRANN, heretofore incorrectly given as McGrann. He was born at Grandview, Manheim Township, Lancaster County, 13 October 1875, son of Bernard J. and Mary Francis MacGrann. He attended St. Mary's Academy in Lancaster, Mercersburg Academy, and was graduated from Princeton in 1896. A horse show exhibitor for a number of years, at the time of his death on 24 July 1935, he was of Killishandra Farms, East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. His widow survived him twelve years and was buried 30 April 1947, in the cemetery of the Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli, where he is also interred.' Issue of (vii.) Amelia Hall and her husband Richard Philip MacGrann: i. BERNARD PENN-GASKELL MacGRANN, b. at Grandview 20 November 1903, graduated from Princeton, 1924, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1928; in. at Holy Trinity P. E. Church, Philadelphia, 24 March 1960, MILS. SARAH H. (REOWN) STEVENSON, b. 7 December 1896, daughter of William John Keown and his wife Martha Foster Keller. Mr. MacGrann has been associated with the Franklin Institute since 1958, and is on the staff of the Director of Membership's Committee. No issue. For his obituary see The Philadelphia hoquirer, 27 April 1962. " Data on Mr. MecGrann is from his obituary in the Coatesville Record, 25 July 1935 examined at the Chester County Historical Society. In it, his name Ls given as McGrath. The church records only give the date of burial of Mrs. MacGrann. She had died 26 April. 180 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine The youngest child and third son of 8. Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall and his second wife Amelia MiXSall, was (Viii.) PHILIP PENN-GASKELL HALL, born 24 September 1878, at Ashwood, the family's residence in Radnor Township. He married in Wilmington, Delaware, on 21 December 1901, MIRIAM ELOISE FULTON. " Born at 2108 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia, she was the daughter of John Clifton Fulton and his wife Mary Elizabeth Allison. At the time of her death 21 June 1954, in Crozer Hospital, Upland, the Hall's Philadelphia residence was 4921 Wissahickon Avenue." Philip Hall, who survived his wife, died at 4039 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 15 November 1961. Both are buried at Mt. Moriah Cemetery. They had three children, the eldest of whom is (I.) MIRIAM ELOISE PENN-GASILELL HALL, born at the home of her Fulton grandparents, 4 October 1902. 20 She married at Hagerstown, Maryland, 31 December 1925, HAROLD SEARLES SAVIDGE of Danville, Pennsylvania. Born there 20 December 1894, he died there 23 August 1960, and is buried at Rush Church, Danville. Mrs. Savidge resides in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Issue of (1.) Miriam Eloise Penn-Gas/cell Hall and her husband Harold Searles Savidge: i. ROBERT FULTON SAVIDGE, b. at Philadelphia 21 March 1927; m at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Philadelphia, 11 April 1953, MARY CAROL HOFFER, b. at Philadelphia 30 December 1929, daughter of Norman E. and Winifred M. Hoffer. Robert Savidge served in the Korean War as staff sergeant, U. S. Army, 1948 - 1991. As a photogrammetrist, he uses aerial photography in cartographic engineering. The Savidges' residence is North Hips, Pennsylvania. Issue: I. MARY BETH SAVIDGE, b. at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 27 May 1954, 2. KATHLEEN ALLISON SAVIDGE, b. at Chestnut Hill, 21 March 1957. 3. MARK &MUGS, b. at Chestnut Hill, 30 June 1959; d. 2 July 1959. 4. Amy COURTNEY SAYMGE, b. at Philadelphia, 1 November 1962. 5. ROBIN CAROL &MIME, b. at Chestnut Hill, 6 March 1968. The second child of (viii.) Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall and his wife Miriam Eloise Fulton, is (2.) AMY PENN-GASKELL HALL, born at 3916 Pine Street, 27 November 1905. She married at Elkton, Maryland, 3 January 1923, FRANCIS PELZER LYNAH, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 6 February 1899, son of Arthur A. Lynah and his wife Eliza DeSaussure Pelzer. Mr. Lynah, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve from August, 1939, to March, 1946, is now retired. Their residence is Wayne, Pennsylvania. 18 Heretofore her name has been given incorrectly as Mary Eloise Fulton. 15 For her obituary see The Philadelphia Inquirer, 21 June 1954. 70 Else birth certifielm, on file in Philadelphia Municipal Archives, Birth Registrations, Book 2 of 1902, 247, in error gives her father's name as Frank Hall. Penn-Gaskell Halls 181 Issue of (2.) Amy Penn-Gas/cell Hall and her husband Francis Pelzer Lynah: i. FRANCIS PELZER LYNAH, JR., b. in Charleston, S. C., 7 April 1924; attended Admiral Farragut Academy; received a 13.5. in Mechanical Engineering from Swarthmore College; M.S. in Physics from Drexel Institute of Technology. During World War II, he served as a Naval aviator with rank of lieutenant, junior grade, from March, 1943, to November, 1945. At the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church on 23 August 1947, 2'. he m. ELAINE ALDEN KITE, b. in Ridley Park, Pa., 5 February 1927, daughter of William Stanley Kite and his wife Miriam Lovett Eggleston, a descendant of John Alden. Their residence is Newtown Square, Pa. Issue: 1. FRANCIS PELZER. LYNAH, III, b. in Bryn Mawr, Pa., 3 December 1951. 2. STEPHEN Kern Imgwrz, b. in Milwaukee, Wis., 26 August 1955. The third and youngest child of (viii.) Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall and his wife Miriam Eloise Fulton, is (3.) PHILIP PENN-GASKELL HALL, JR., born at New London, Chester County, 20 September 1912.' A star athlete at Friends' Central School, he attended Temple and Villanova University. In 1934, the Associate Committee of Women of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania initiated the project of obtaining a place in the Hall of Fame for the Founder of Pennsylvania. As a result of their enthusiasm and correspondence, a bust of William Penn by the sculptor, A. Stirling Calder, was unveiled by young Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall 28 May 1936, in the Hall of Fame at the University Heights Campus of New York University.n Two years later on 14 September 1938, he was the first of the Penn descendants to accept from the Conard-Pyle Company, proprietors of the Star Rose Gardens at West Grove, Chester County, one red rose as payment of the annual quit rent laid down by his ancestor, William Penn, 3rd, in 1742. This pleasant ceremony has its roots in a deed of lease and release executed 24, 25 September 1731, wherein John, Thomas and Richard Penn confirmed to William Penn, 3rd, grandson of the Founder, 5000 acres of unlocated land in the Province. In 1742, William Penn, 3rd, conveyed the right to the still unlocated land to William Allen (later Chief Justice of the Province) , subject to an annual quit rent of one red rose forever 22 An account of their marriage is in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 August 1947. The family record in John '37. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York and Chicago, loW, I, 21, from which data was extracted for the account in the last ssue of this Magazine, does not include his name as Mr. Jordares work was published before he was horn. ■ as See the account in The Philadelphia (noire, 29 May 1936, and the reports of the Associate Committee of Women in Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, XII (No. 3, 1931), 312; XIII (Nos. 1-2, 1936), 165. 182 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine "if demanded." Allen had the land surveyed and in 1748 conveyed fifty-three acres of it to one Samuel Cross. One hundred and eighty years later this tract (now in Penn Township, Chester County) was acquired by the Conard-Pyle Company, along with the old tavern building which had been erected on it at the intersection of the roads leading to West Grove and New London. In the restoration of the inn, henceforth known as the Red Rose Inn, an investigation of the title to the land revealed the old quit rent laid on the property. The Conard-Pyle Company elected to pay the quit rent, and for ten years it was accepted in appropriate ceremonies by the president of the Chester County Historical Society as representative of the Proprietary. In September, 1938, Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr. was the first Penn descendant to accept the rent. Since then it has been received by various members of the Hall family.' On 10 November 1935, Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr., married at Philadelphia, HORTENSIA LUISA MEDRANO, born at Philadelphia, daughter of Higinio Julio Medrano, Cuban Consul at Philadelphia, and his wife Amelia Luis Iraola. During World War II, Mr. Hall was associated with a shipbuilding company engaged in building cargo vessels for the U.S. Navy, and has remained with the same concern. His residence is Moylan-Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. Issue of (3.) Philip Penn-Gaskell Hall, Jr. and his wife Hortensia Luisa Medrano: 1. AMY PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at Ridley Park, Pa., 24 October 1941. A graduate of Mater Misericordiae Academy, Merion, Pa., and of West Chester State College, in 1947 she was the recipient of the quit rent from the Conard-Pyle Company. Her engagement to CHRISTOPHER PAUL SCHRODE, b. at Philadelphia 23 June 1940, son of Dr. Paul F. Schrode of Wynnewood, and the late Mrs. Claude Rains of Sandwich, N. H., was announced 14 December 1967. They have chosen 15 June for their marriage. Mr. ScInode, a graduate of West Chester State College, has been serving with the U.S. Army Intelligence in Baltimore. MIRIAM PENN-GASKELL HALL, b. at Philadelphia 18 April 1949, is attending Rosemont College. On 23 November 1953, she set off the so-called "atomic blast," at the site of the old Chinese Wall along Market Street in Philadelphia, which marked the start of ground-breaking for Penn Center, 2° and is the most recent Penn descendant to accept the quit rent of one red rose from the Conard-Pyle Company. 24 Ie 1772 a similar rent of one red rose was laid on land in Manheim Twp., Lancaster Co., by Henry William Stiegel when he gave land in the township for the use of a Lutheran congregatmn. 25 These have included Mrs. Francis P. Lynah, Sr., and her son F. Pelzer Lynah in 1939, and Joannah Coates Hall in 1950 and 1951. A transcript of the deed to William Allen, and numerous clippings and programs describing the presentation ceremonies aos in the Albert Cooke Myers Collection, Chester County Historical Society. 26 An account of the ceremony it 'ID The Philadelphia ',quire, 25 November 1953.