INDEX
- Pepys, author of a book often reprinted, 15
- Perkasie encampment of First Brigade visited, 307
- Perot, T. Morris, 175
- Petition from Philadelphia lawyers asking governor not to be a candidate for Supreme Court, 335
- Pettit, Silas W., 181
- Pfannebecker, meeting a, in Germany, 218
- Philadelphia, College of Medicine invites author's father to a chair on faculty, 55; City Institute, 57
- Philadelphia delegation to State Convention unanimously endorses governor for Supreme Court, 343
- Philadelphia, her "Greatest Need," 374
- Philippine question discussed with Mr. Taft, 472
- Phillips, John J., 55
- Phillips, Thomas W., 183
- Philobiblon Club organized, 239
- Phœnix Iron Company, 72, 90
- Phœnix, Weekly, 86
- Phœnixville, Annals of, 147; charter, 52; conditions during author's boyhood, 62; war record of her sons, 89; war work of girls, 89; Young Men's Literary Union, 72
- Phœnixville Guardian, 75
- Phœnixville Pioneer, The, 35
- Physical peculiarities, 149, 150
- Pierie, George G., 234, 431
- Pittsburgh consolidation, 294, 382; consolidation urged, 537; Ripper Bill, 270
- Platt, E. Greenough, 126
- Platt, Senator Thomas C., 344
- Playfair, Sir Lyon, 134
- Plockhoy, Peter Cornelius, 147
- Poe, second edition of poems, 166
- Poetry written by author, 136
- Political, associates of early manhood, 172; ward struggles, early, 174; parades and riots, 184
- Politics in Phœnixville just before war, 82
- Pollok's "Course of Time" favorite book of author's grandmother, 19
- Pollock, James, appointed harbormaster of Philadelphia, 428
- Pollock, Moses, 168
- Pollution of streams brought to attention of legislature, 542
- Pomeroy, A. Nevin, 292
- Popular election of U. S. Senators, 279
- Porter, Chas. A., an early political associate, 172
- Porter, General Horace, 396
- Portfolio, the, finest known set owned by author, 161
- Positions sought by author as a young man, 72
- Pratt, Joseph T., 199
- Prentis, Major General Benjamin Mayberry, 319
- Presentation of silver set at close of administration, 438
- Press, controversy with the, 300; correspondent sent out of Mt. Gretna camp, 308
- Press comments on judicial capacity of author, 203; irresponsible meddling of, interferes with justice, 212; liberty of the, and its significance, 295
- Price, Eli. K., 119
- Price, William T., 183
- Principio visited by author as a boy, 56
- Prisons and their methods, 209
- Probst, Anton, tried for murder, 121
- Program of legislation suggested in inaugural address, 282
- Prospects in life at opening of 1902, 261
- Pryor, Roger A., 92
- Puleston, John Henry, 75
- Punishment inadequate to prevent wrong doing, 209
- Pupils associated with author in Grovemont Seminary, 69
- Puzzling a reporter, 146
- Quaker comments on veto policy, 288
- Quarter sessions court, reluctance to preside, 200
- Quay, Matthew Stanley, a distant relative of author, 195; aids a Southern lady who had befriended him, 419; appreciation by F. W. Fleitz, 484; approves of author as judge, 195; as a host 484; compared with Clay, 281; dies, 351; eulogized by author before Eighth Ward Republican Club, 316; funeral, 354; members of Indian tribe, 483; jokes with Ben Sooy, 485; Latin humor from, 345; moves remains of his grandmother from Ohio to Chester County, 322; political methods characterized, 320; resolution adopted by Pennsylvania delegation to Chicago 1904 convention, 359; statue to be erected at capitol, 440; superstitions, 322; talks over gubernatorial nomination, 265; writes a scathing letter on the Supreme Court muddle, 340 et seq.
- Radcliffe, Sarah Ann, made clothes for Pennypacker family, 39
- Rand, Dr. Benjamin Howard, 55
- Railroads to take precautions against forest fires, 527
- Rawle, William Brooke, 158, 302
- Rawle, William Henry, 114, 197
- Read, John M., 172
- Reading, records of, 145
- Readings in law, 110
- Reapportionment into senatorial and representative districts recommended, 534; difficulties explained, 535; of the state proposed in 1905, 370
- Reception of newspaper abuse, 309
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