A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.

Incident from the life of General George Washington, in which Phoebe Fraunces, daughter of Fraunces Tavern's proprietor, showed her loyalty to Washington and his cause. Phoebe was in love with a member of Washington's personal staff who was involved in a plot to kill him.

The story of Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton, who developed the use of ether as an anesthetic.