Society was formed, officers elected, committees ap- pointed, and plans made to obtain stock subscriptions. David G. Eshelman, an attorney, was elected president of the Society. Other officers were the Rev. Dr. J. Max Hark, minister of the Moravian Church, vice president; Dr. Henry Carpenter, physician

Met in Philadelphia on the 30th of December, 1849 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The General Committee, 1850), pp. 1-8. 3. Louis Hartz, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776-1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948), p. 15; Victor S. Clark, History of Manufactures in the United

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

-expanding railroads in general, and for the Pennsylvania Railroad in particular: 4 The Safe Harbor Iron Works was an "integrated plant," that is, the owners controlled the ore sources, pig iron production, and manufacture of wrought iron into a finished product. 15 Organization, ownership and financing of

buildings today. �in the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania and was a power to be reckoned with in legislative matters.111 During the struggle over the chartering of the United States Bank at Harrisburg in 1836, Henry Haldeman was opposed to the notion of chartering the bank. To overcome his opposition, sup

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster

impossible to find anyone in the young United States who could fix the instrument. The engineer was amused when he was told young Getz could fix it, but when the native son convinced him he could do the task, he permitted him to try. Getz quickly rebuilt the surveying instrument "better than new" and the

oyer and terminer jurisdiction (capital and very serious crimes). Provision was made that the Supreme Court could grant commissions to county courts of quarter sessions of the peace for specific trials constituting courts of oyer, terminer and general jail delivery. It is not clear from the records how