Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

started for the Northern states, with a view to taking them to Canada. The caravan reached Columbia on its journey, and for several days the men, women and children were quartered in a stone warehouse belonging to Samuel Bethel. which stood where the canal basin was. The Wrights then gave them land in the

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

REMINISCENCES OF A COLUMBIA BOY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN By C. H. Martin About May 1, 1926, the fact, came to the author's attention, that Mr. D. J. Richards still living at Hazard, Kentucky, was in the Ford theater at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. Communication

open a ferry by permission of the province across the Susquehanna, between the present sites of Columbia and Wrightsville, had advertised in the previous issue of the paper that his ferry was the only good one for people to patronize. Long before the Revolution, William Anderson obtained a permit to

DAVID CROCKETT IN COLUMBIA By William Frederic Worner In the proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society for Decem- ber, 1923, there is a brief article relative to the eccentric frontiersman and congressman, Colonel David Crockett. In that paper I referred to Crockett's visit to

so 'devoted to draw- ing while a child and a youth that every other part of his education was neglected." This is not entirely correct, for after West went to Philadel- phia, he was taken up by Provost William Smith, of the College of Phila- delphia, Bishop William White and Francis Hopkinson, and