-manufacturing and war-provisioning activities should have been a target of the invaders, but the British made no move towards Lancaster. The state government felt safe in Lancaster and remained there throughout the British occupation of Philadelphia. (From 1799 to 1812 the state government made Lancaster its

nineteenth century large numbers of immigrants began arriving in the United States from European nations whose culture was quite different from that of Western Europe and the British Isles from whence had come our early settlers. By this time many Americans had forgotten their own ancestors were immigrants

Clio's Century: A History of Lancaster's Cliosophic Society John Ward Willson Loose Few communities in the nation can boast an anomaly quite like the Cliosophic Society. The arts of conversation and genteel discussion, alas, no longer seem to be part of our national culture. Literary societies have

A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon

, Constitution of the United States, Analytical Geometry and Calculus, and Mental Philosophy. 5. Twelve vols. Theses selected from the classes of each year. 6. Thirty Theses bound in pamphlet form of the classes of 1874 and 1875. 7. Two bound vols. Catalogues from the beginning of the school in 1855 until the

in the United States. Lancaster's prolific early printer, Francis Bailey, a native of Sadsbury Township, did much to keep booksellers' shelves filled with works of every variety in the eighteenth century. Two early poets were Sallie Hastings and Benjamin G. Herr of Lancaster County. Mrs. Hastings was

Assembly decided against him. In 1733 Wright was returned to the Assembly, and in the same year was reappointed a justice of the peace. While all this was taking place, Wright was busy with the struggle known locally as "Cresap's War," a battle over the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary, and the occupation of