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NEW BRIGHTON PAPERS 155 the fullest and freest sense of the term, independent Republican in principle. If we do not like the actions of our own party, we claim, and will exercise, the right of saying so." Francis Smith Reader was bom in Coal Centre, Wash- ington county, Pa., November 17, 1842, and was the descendant of a prominent line of pioneers in that county. Of his maternal ancestors, Hugh Scott came from the North of Ireland to the eastern part of Penn- sylvania in 1670; the Agnews came the same time, who traced their lineage to the Norman invaders of England, through residents of Scotland and north of Ireland, and intermarried with the Scotts. Rev. John Smith, who married Annie Agnew great grand-daughter of Hugh Scott, was sent as a missionary to Pennsylvania in 1771 by the Associate Presbytery of Stirling Scotland, and was pastor of the Associate Church in Canonsburg, Washington county. Pa., in 1795. The Wallaces came from Renfrewshire Scotland to Somerset county, Md., about 1685, descendants of Sir Malcolm Wallace the Knight of Elderslie ; and William Wallace of the fourth generation of this family in this country, came from Maryland to Somerset township, Washington county. Pa., with his bride in 1779. He was a Revolutionary soldier, serving in the Flying Camp of Maryland in 1776-7, and in the Rangers of the Frontiers in Washington county. Pa., after settling there. Martha, daughter of William Wallace, and James Agnew son of Rev. John Smith, were united in marriage, and their daughter, Eleanor Bentley Smith, was married to Francis Reader, whose parents came from Honily, near Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwick- shire England, to Washington county. Pa., in 1805, and they were the parents of the editor. He was a Union soldier in the Civil War, enlisting AprU 27, 1861; was mustered in as a member of Company I, Second Virginia Infantry, which was changed in name to the Fifth West