428 HISTORY OF 



from a desire to increase and perpetuate the blessings 

 derived to them from the possession of property and a 

 free government, appKed 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 

 m the borough of Lancaster. Their petition was granted ; 

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

 styled, in honor of his excellency, Benjamin Franklin, 

 Esq., " The trustees of Franklin college, 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. 

 Ingold, Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk, Rev. Abraham Blumer, 

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

 Mehzheimer, Messrs. John Hubley, Joseph Hicster, Cas- 

 per Schaffner, Peter Hooffnagle, Christopher Crawford, 

 Paul Zantzinger, Adam Hubley, Adam Reigart, Jasper 

 Yeates, Stephen Chambers, Robert Morris, George Cly- 

 mcr, Philip Wagner, William Bingham, W^illiam Hamil- 

 ton, Wilham Rawle, Lewis Farmer, Christopher Kucher, 

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

 John JMusser. 



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 Tlieology, and in 

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



*Thc compiler occupies (1843) one of the apartments of 

 "Franklin row." 



