News of Jackson's Victory at New Orleans in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Saturday, January 8th, 1815, General Andrew Jackson won his famous victory at New Orleans. It was the last great land battle of the War of 1812, which some historians insist on call- ing "The Second War for

II. REMARKS ON ANDREW REAM, REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONER By Pierce Lesher Among the Revolutionary pensioners of Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pa., were Andrew Ream and Henry Ream of Reamstown. In Captain Smuller's muster roll for the year 1778 Andrew Ream was an ensign, a commissioned officer who

Life of Andrew Byerly By C. H. MARTIN SOMEWHERE in or about Strasburg, Pa., evidently in an un- marked grave lie the remains of Andrew Byerly. This man, of eventful and spectacular life, lived in Lancaster about fif- teen years. To recite in somewhat chronological order some of his expe- riences, I

affair. In the American Weekly Mercury of Oct. 7, 1731, we find that Andrew Cornish was elected a commissioner of Lancaster County. Among the minutes of the Provincial Council of Jan. 29th, 1731, we find the very earliest petition for good roads in Lancaster County. �We read. " A petition of the

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

1929 A. K. HOSTETTER, C. H. MARTIN, H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, HERBERT H. BECK. Collections in Aid of Sufferers from the Fire in Lancaster in 1811 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ATE in the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, or very early in the morning of the 2nd, the citizens of Lancaster borough were awakened

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

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

News of Jackson's Victory at New Orleans in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Saturday, January 8th, 1815, General Andrew Jackson won his famous victory at New Orleans. It was the last great land battle of the War of 1812, which some historians insist on call- ing "The Second War for

ever. If there had been so much excitement in Lancaster, and if the Germans believed that the borough and county of Lancaster were to be presented to General Riedesel, surely Marshall, with his intimate knowledge of conditions, would have heard of it and noted the fact in his diary. To believe such