please everyone — the policy which governed his entire career — won him the admiration and respect of the people of Lan- caster, for whom he always felt that "nothing was too good". George Krupa and the Lancaster New Era newspaper men had a most pleasant business relationship. He had always held them in

of Lancaster County. In Columbia, for example, the Negro barbers found early and continued support from the Quaker abolitionists in the form of land grants and loans. The lumber merchants, particularly Stephen Smith, James Burrill, and William Whipper, were financed, patronized, and protected by