Friends intelligencer . WILLIAM C. SPROUL,GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. FRIENDS IN PUBLIC LIFE. OUR QUAKER GOVERNOR. Oi*R present Governor, William C. Sproul, is, we be-lieve, the first member of the Society of Friends to fillthat office since the adoption of the Constitution of theUnited States. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa.,in 1870, his mother being a member of our religiousSociety. His family later moved to Chester, where heattended the Chester High School, and then Swarth-more College, graduating from there in the famousclass of 1891. About this time he decided that heshould be an activ
Friends intelligencer . WILLIAM C. SPROUL,GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA. FRIENDS IN PUBLIC LIFE. OUR QUAKER GOVERNOR. Oi*R present Governor, William C. Sproul, is, we be-lieve, the first member of the Society of Friends to fillthat office since the adoption of the Constitution of theUnited States. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa.,in 1870, his mother being a member of our religiousSociety. His family later moved to Chester, where heattended the Chester High School, and then Swarth-more College, graduating from there in the famousclass of 1891. About this time he decided that heshould be an active member of the Society of Friends,and became a member of Chester Monthly Meeting byconviction. He was elected to the Senate of Pennsyl-vania in 1896, being at that time the youngest Senatorin that body, and served continuously, representingDelaware County, until the day before his inaugura-tion as Governor, in last January. On leaving college he purchased, with E. LawrenceFell, the Franklin Printing Company of Philadel
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