GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

The Early Abolitionists of Lancaster County, In giving a history of the Abolition movement in Lancaster county,or else- where, the question seems first to arise, what is specially meant by the term "Abolitionist." The indiscrimin- ate manner in which it was used sixty years ago against every person

. John Whitehill, a Congressman. The son of James Whitehill, the pioneer, was born December 11, 1729, in Salisbury township, Lancaster �county. He married August 13, 1755, Ann Sanderson. John Whitehill was a zealous patriot, and was prominent in serving on committees at the time of the Revolution

early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

. If a large patronage is an indica- tion of success, then Mr. Williams was a very great success. In his native city, Philadelphia, many paintings done by him can be found; a great many in the Pennsylvania Historical Society; in Lancaster, I have found a great many which later I shall men- tion; in

JOHN LANDIS, PAINTER. The first of a series of historical papers bearing on early Lancaster portrait painters, as arranged for by a joint committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Iris Club, which is planning for the portraiture exhibition in November, were submitted at the

ARTHUR ARMSTRONG. One of the best-known names in the galaxy of artists who adorn the roll of Lancaster county's honored sons is that of Arthur Armstrong, portrait, landscape and historical painter. His is the distinction of being born, rear- ed, educated and living his life among our people. He was