enough to make it a shipping point. Mills, factories, and mines, which give importance to a region and bring it in touch with the outside world, are not to be found within its boundaries.
But it has a greatness all its own that will abide and enlarge as time goes on, because of a lad born in old Bensalem more than a hundred years ago. Men are living who knew him when he was little and who proudly saw him grow to an honored manhood. They had been unwilling to leave to old scrapbooks of desultory and disconnected newspaper clippings the telling of the story of his life. Therefore, it has been possible to go among them and to jot down what they have said of Isaiah Williamson. It is well worth while to collect the notes, and put them in authentic permanent form for the sake of the thousand and sixteen boys who at this writing[1] have already felt his influence in their lives.[2] We
- ↑ Probably in May, 1907.
- ↑ The author is referring to Williamson's great philanthropy—the trade school that bears his name. The 1016th apprentice was enrolled on April 17, 1907. At the end of 1927 the number of indentures had reached 2293. In the history of the school "over 10,000 applications have been made for admission to the benefits of Mr. Williamson's philanthropy," stated President Pratt on November 16, 1927.
