Upper Providence Township.

Red Lion was taken down and the new sign (the Rose-Tree) was suspended beneath the great poplar trees. In 1806, Isaac Cochran secured the license, and continued to receive the court's favor for ten years while he was landlord. The present stone building was erected at different dates, the oldest part being built in 1809. In 1816, Isaac Cochran, who owned the property, was succeeded by Martin Wise as landlord, but the following year he again became "mine Host," and continued as such until 1821, when William V. Black had license. In 1823, Isaac Cochran again became the landlord, to be succeeded in 1828 by John Black, and the latter, in 1831, by Isaac Cochran, Jr. In 1833, George Cummings had license, and during the time he occupied the house, in 1836, the stone addition to the inn was made, by which the Rose-Tree grew in dimension to double the size it had been since the new building was erected, in 1809. George Cummings died in 1846, and the following year, 1847, Matilda B. Cummings had a temperance license granted to her by the court for the Rose-Tree. In 1848, Martha Ann Russell obtained license, the following year Malin Bishop, and in 1850, Matilda B. Cummings again was the hostess of the inn. Isaac Cochran, who had so long been landlord of the Rose-Tree, died on April 18, 1852, at Willistown, Chester Co., he having attained the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Robert Johnson, in 1857, followed Matilda B. Cummings, to give place to William Beeby the next year, and he in 1859 to J. Morgan Baker, who remained there until 1864, when the license was transferred to Thomas Graham. In 1865, Thomas B. Miller was at the Rose-Tree, to be succeeded in 1868 by Joseph D. Velotte, and in 1871, Thomas M. Garrett, and 1872 Velotte returned, only by the local option law to be deprived of license in 1873 and 1874. After the repeal of that act by the Legislature, Benjamin Rogers, the present landlord, received license.

Rose-Tree Fox-Hunting Club was organized in September, 1873, although for a number of years prior to that date the gentlemen who founded the club. At first, the hounds, who were owned by individuals, were kept at the residences of the parties who would meet at the Rose-Tree to hunt, but when J. Morgan Baker became the landlord of tile Rose-Tree, a number of the dogs were kept at the tavern. During his occupancy of the inn, Baker laid out the race track at the Rose-Tree, which since became noted among turfmen. Several years ago the following account of the club appeared in a New York sporting journal:

"About 1853, J. Howard Lewis, Esq., and George E. Darlington, Esq., began to keep their hounds at the Rose-Tree Tavern, on the Providence road, about one and a half miles above the court-house, which had just been located in the present town of Media. The Rose-Tree was then kept by Morgan Baker [he first had license in 1859], and the hounds remained there for several years. These gentlemen, gradually joined by others, some years later, moved to Lamb Tavern, kept by Woodward, but, owing to the landlord's intentionally crippling a fox, the kennel was moved to Tom McClure's farm. McClure always kept a few good hounds of his own, until the winter of 1875-76, when he met with an accident and was killed. About 1869 the locality of the hunt was changed to the Black Horse, in Middletown township. The leaders now were Messrs. J. Howard Lewis, Samuel Lewis, Professor Fairman Rogers, joined by George Hill, the present M. F. H., who was living on Chester Creek and hunting with John Mahony, Henry Saulnier, and Mark Pennell. The former is now, at threescore years and ten, as true a fox hunter as ever followed hounds, and keeps the same blood in his kennel for which he has always been famous. Without children he and wife live on a small farm, where, as he says, he 'always has mate for the hounds, and milk for the puppies,' and at any time you can find a lot of puppies occupying the warmest corner of the fireplace, and Mrs. Mahony will say, pointing to one or the other, 'Now, isn't he pretty?' About the same time, Henry E. Saulnier (who lived formerly in New York, but was attracted to a country place near Ivy Mills on account of the beauty of the scenery and the hunting) joined. The hounds were moved back to the 'Lamb,' then kept by Benjamin Rodgers, and the next year, 1872, the Rose-Tree was bought by Messrs. J. Howard Lewis, Samuel Lewis, Professor Fairman Rogers, and E. Farnum, the hounds sent there, and 'Benny' came as landlord. The club was then regularly organized with six to seven couple of members, with George Hill, M. F. H. and President; J. Howard Lewis, vice-president; George Lewis, treasurer; and Samuel Miller, secretary. It has gradually increased in size until there are now about twoscore and six."¹

Delaware County Institute of Science. - Just above the Rose-Tree, on Providence road was the first building erected by the institution, and used by that scientific body until the present hall in the borough of Media was built. In the summer of 1833 a number of gentlemen met at the public-house of Isaac Hall, in Nether Providence. Dr. Samuel Anderson was made chairman, Marshall Painter and John K. Zerlin, secretaries. At that time the proposed name of the society was the "Cabinet of Natural Sciences of Delaware County." At a subsequent meeting, at the same place, on Sept. 21, 1833, the name was changed to Delaware County Institute of Sciences, with the avowed intention of enlarging the range of subjects. On Jan. 4, 1837, George Cummings sold to the institute a lot of ground near the Rose-Tree Tavern, on which the society erected its first building. While located there the map of Delaware County, prepared by Dr. Joshua W. Ash, and Dr. George Smith's "History of Delftware County" were both published under the auspices of the institute. On Sept. 10, 11, and 12, 1846, the institute held its first public exhibition of agriculture, manufactures, and other productions of Delaware County, at its hall in Upper Providence, and continued these exhibitions annually for several years, until the Delaware County Agricultural Society was established (1855), when to avoid a conflict with the latter the institute ceased its annual exhibitions. The history of the society, other than this, is given in the account of Media borough.

John Cassin, one of the distinguished men of Pennsylvania and the nation, one of the chief movers in the organization of the Delaware County Institute of Science, was born in Upper Providence, Sept. 6, 1813. He removed to Philadelphia in 1834, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. His time, however, was largely devoted to the study of ornithology, and therein he became an authority second to no other student of that branch of scientific knowledge. The noted ornitho-