428 HISTORY OP 



from a desire to increase and perpetuate the blessings 

 derived to them from the possession of property and a 

 free government, applied to the Legislature for a charter 

 of incorporation and a donation of lands, for the purpose 

 of establishing and endowing a college and charity school 

 in the borough of Lancaster. Their petition was granted; 

 a board of trustees, as a corporate body, was established, 

 styled, in honor of his excellency, BE^'JAMIN Franklin, 

 Esq., " The trustees of Frankiin coltege, in the borough 

 and county of Lancaster.^^ 



The first board of trustees were : the honorable Thomas 

 Mifflin, Hon. Thomas M'Kean, Rev. John H. C. Hel- 

 muth. Rev. Casper Weiburg, Rev. Henry Muhlenberg, 

 Rev. William Hendell, Rev. Nicholas Kurz, Rev. George 

 Troldiener, Rev. John Herbst, Rev. Joseph Hutchins^ 

 Rev. Fred. Weyland, Rev. Albertus Helfenstein, Rev. W. 

 IngoJd, Rev. Jacob VanBuskirk, Rev. Abraham Blumer, 

 Rev. Fred. Dalecker, Rev. C. E. Schuhz, Rev. F. V. 

 Meltzheimer, Messrs. John Hubley, Joseph Hiester, Cas- 

 per Schaffner, Peter Hooffnagle, Christopher Crawford, 

 Paul Zantzinger, Adam Hubley, Adam Reigart, Jasper 

 Yeates, Stephen Chambers, Robert Morris, George Cly- 

 mer, PhiHp Wagner, William Bingham, WiUiam Hamil- 

 ton, William Rawle, Lewis Farmer, Christopher Kucher, 

 Philip Groenwaldt, INIichael Hahn, George Stake, sen., 

 John I^Iusser. 



Franklin college was located in North Queen street, 

 known for many years as "The old storehouse," now 

 as "Franklin row.* The college was opened for the 

 instruction of youth, in the German, English, Latin, 

 Greek and other learned languages; in Theology, and in 

 the useful arts, sciences and literature. It remained in a 



*The compiler cccupics (1843) one of the apartments of 

 ** Franklin row," 



