marked the opening of the largest "money getting campaign" in the history of Lancaster up to that time. The daily papers of that day tell us that "nearly 300 of the real live wires of business and professional life in the city and county gathered at Hotel Brunswick to give the Lancaster General Hospital

County of Bucks. (Signed) John Morrison Public Records of Pennsylvania Lancaster, July 7, 1802 Received of James Trimble, the sum of two dollars and twenty five cents for the carriage of a box from the Borough of Lancaster to the City 16 Letter in the Library of Congress. 17 Robert McKean, age 36, was

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

, accompanied by a number of citizens, they sat down to a Dinner, prepared for the occasion. Captain Atlee presided and Lieutenant Hume officiated as Vice-President. —Lancaster Intelligencer March 12, 1805 Senate and House Adopt Rules for Their Library The State Library of Pennsylvania had its beginning at some

in Vol. 28, page 6, L. C. H. S. See "Lodgings of Assemblymen in 1799" by H. Frank Eshleman. 13 From History of Lancaster County, edited by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, 1883. �Commonwealth. One is headed "Dec. 23, 1799, State of Pennsylvania to Wm. Hensel for Sundry Carpenter Work." The total of

several other areas of activity, Franklin had quite definite connections with our county. While it is not possible to recount all of those interests here, what will follow is, we believe, sufficient to create a unique place for Benjamin Franklin in the history of Lancaster County. �FRANKLIN PRINTS THE