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Stephen J. Bergman '66, of Leverett House and Hudson, N.Y., Jonathan D. Culler '66, of Kirkland House and Hamden, Conn., Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., William P. Frerking '66, of Quincy House and St. Louis...
...also elected W. Frank White '66, of Winthrop House and Canton, Miss., to its Board of Directors; Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., treasurer; and M. Daniel Zeddies '67, of Pennypacker Hall and St. Paul Minn., clerk...
...Widener maps bear the tales of adventurers and explorers as well as that of modern explorers. A colonial expedition led by Filson charted parts of Kentucky after George Clark quieted the Shawnee. The map displays Daniel Boone's comment: "an exceeding good performance." Another early American map, drawn by John Smith in 1614, locates and names Plymouth Rock six years before the Pilgrims "found...
Homework. In Oklahoma City, as Detective L. L. Filson took down the description of a fugitive on his home telephone, he glanced out the window and saw the fugitive walking by, stepped out the front door and arrested...
...true! Every word true! Not a lie in it!" So Daniel Boone used to crow about Kentucke, the famous Kentucky history which first printed his "autobiography." It was this alleged autobiography, the orotund work of a neighbor, Schoolmaster John Filson, that first spread Boone's fame as No. 1 U. S. frontiersman, started the boom in Boone legend. Just how many lies Boone's "autobiography" contained, biographers have been busy discovering ever since...