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

LANCASTER COUNTY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY By William Frederic Worner. In 1727 or 28, when Benjamin Franklin was about twenty-two years of age, he influenced a number of well-informed men in Philadelphia to unite with with him in forming a club to be named the "Junto." He states

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

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

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

raged with fury for more than nine hours. Several lives were lost, and two-thirds of the town were in ruins. A circular letter was received from the mayor of Petersburg, appealing for financial assistance for the sufferers by fire, and a meeting of citizens of Lancaster borough was held on Friday

Wagon Loads of Gold in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE late William Uhler Hensel, a former vice-president of our Lancaster County Historical Society, and widely known as a leader of the Lan- caster bar, would, when in a reminiscent mood, often sigh for "the days of yore, when taverns were

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �

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