With Latin phrase from Cicero meaning "To be, rather than to seem" - which is also the motto of the state of North Carolina. Shows founding year of 1833 and a torch for learning.
from Robert Clemens Smedley. History of the Underground Railroad In Chester And the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968. Reprint of 1883 edition, Lancaster Pa; Offices of the Journal. p. 204-205
History of Pennsylvania Hall, which was destroyed by a mob, on the 18th of May 1838. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838.
Contains an inscription to Charles C. Burleigh. After his death, it passed on to his son Edward Davis Burleigh
Ernest M. Currier, Marks of Early American Silversmiths, with notes on Silver, Spoon Types & List of New York City Silversmiths 1815-1841. Portland ME: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938. Edited by Kathryn C. Buhler. Online version. P. 95
This academic article touches on connections to African-American communities and remnants of the Abolitionist movement. Notes a boycott of a segregated Chicago hotel in the early 1900s. Dominic Candeloro, "The Single Tax Movement and Progressivism, 1880-1920" The American Journal of Economics and Sociology , Apr., 1979, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1979), pp. 113-127
