. William A. Sullivan, The Industrial Worker in Pennsylvania: 1800-1840 (Harris- burg, Pa.: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1955), p. 9. 2. Convention of Iron Masters, Documents Relating to the Manufacture of Iron in Pennsylvania, Published on Behalf of the Convention of Iron Masters which

mechanical genius in Lancaster County was William Henry. Henry's abilities in gunsmithing and his outstanding contributions to winning the American Revolution have been described well by Samuel Dyke and others of the gunsmithing fraternity. The manufacture of guns obviously presented numerous challenges to

structure was razed about 1907.28 Columbia Rolling Mill The firm of Smith, Bruner, Sourbeer and Company erected the Columbia Rolling Mill in 1854 on land west of the Shawnee Furnaces in Columbia, at a cost of $160,000. Original equipment included seven puddling furnaces and two trains of rolls designed to

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

ap- parently were not built for permanence. On 16 August 1784, a year after the end of the Revolution, the last barracks master, John Schreiber, wrote to Presi- dent John Dickinson, reporting one of the gable ends collapsed during the fall of a chimney, and that if a new roof is not put on the entire

battery, and was fined two shillings, six pence. William Clarke was accused of felonious theft, but he failed to appear. �At the November term, 1729, Sheriff Robert Barber reported he had com- pleted the temporary log jail on his property at Wright's Ferry, and sought ap- proval for the county to pay for

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

than a few hundred feet of grading on his property.' 12 In 1845 Henry Haldeman built an anthracite iron furnace in the western shadow of Chikis Rock and east of the Chickiswalungo Creek. On 4 July 1845 he presented the furnace and his other commercial holdings to two of his sons. Professor Samuel S

Pennsylvania Hall of Fame evoked a small storm of protest. Numerous telephone calls and letters— many anonymous—to this speaker is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the effect Stevens had on the history of our nation. Though dead for 106 years, the "Old Commoner" continues to inflame men and create