our attention to one little section in the United States, for by a detailed examination of feeling in one section we can easily gain some perspective as to how the people in all the United States felt in this crucial year. Let us go to Pennsylvania, to the Lancaster County of 1856. Lancaster County is

outstanding characteristic of corporate development in the United States. This is especially true in the growth of public utilities. Practically all the many gas companies, as well as the electric lighting companies, which were formed in Lancaster County be- ginning with the gas industry in 1849, and the

of Miss Montgomery, died on the hill. He was one of the most active of the ironmasters, and was generally esteemed according to Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County as a "genial, kind-hearted, and enterprising gentleman." Abram Musselman's children were all educated in private schools. His

/ The Health of / Soldiers / Recommended to / The Consideration of the / Officers / Of the Army of the United / States" / By Benjamin Rush, M. D. / PubIished by Order of the Board / of War / Lancaster : Printed by John Dunlap / In Queen Street." �the columns of the Pennsylvania Packet. In the issue of

and Addresses of the Lancaster vol. xxxvi (1932), p. 291. 52 Glass: et. al.; op. cit. 53 Minutes of Eastern Synod. 54 Minutes of Lebanon Classis, MS. in Library of the Reformed Church in the United States. Reformed Congregation," County Historical Society, of the Historical Society �for several years

Eastern United States, the Penn- sylvania Dutch teamster, with his Conestoga breed of horses from Lancaster County, ranked second to none. In the gubernatorial campaign of 1835 Joseph Ritner, often called "The Wagon Boy of the Alleghenies," because he had been a wagoner in his early days, was the

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World

were in circulation in Lancaster County. Spanish Milled Dollars were recognized as legal tender in the United States until 1857. Between 1800 and the passage of the National Banking Act in 1863, large amounts of currency were issued by private banks. This was issued without specific security, and the