day wrote that the two most impressive men in all the city of Phila- delphia were Thomas McKean and his son-in-law, The Chevalier de Yrugo. David Paul Brown left us this picture of him. "He was tall and stately — 14 Thomas McKean was born 1734 in New London Township, Chester County. He was a member

Lancaster on November 19, Governor McKean issued a proclama- tion which called upon the duly elected electors "of a President and Vice President of the United States to serve at the election in their behalf to be held at the Seat of Government (being the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster

have a tendency to retain the Seat of Government amongst you . . . and thus promote the Respectability of your Borough and your own individual interest? (Signed) A Friend to the Borough and County of Lancaster —Lancaster Intelligencer January 20, 18021° Mr. Barton presented certain Resolutions agreed

state politics. President Judge of the Berks County Courts, he was projected into the political arena by his father-in-law, Joseph Heister, Revolutionary War veteran and former member of Congress and of both houses of the state assembly. Proving the foregone conclusion of the editor of the Lancaster

his "Travels through the Interior Parts of America in a Series of Letters" (London, 1789), left interesting and valuable observations on Lancaster and Lancaster County ; but Ensign Hughes lived in the town for eighteen months, during which time he noted his life and the life about him. There is no

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

, such being a necessity with the increase of population and by reason of the fact that St. Joseph's Hospital and the County Hospital were overcrowded most of the time." Election of officers resulted as follows: Rev. Mr. Bicksler, president; Dr. C. Elvin Haupt, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, first vice