The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

, as he gave his name when he first came, is still well-remembered by several old inhabitants who are now past the age of eighty years, as a hard-working man, having had the reputa- tion of being one of the best quarry-men along the pikes, and of having, it was said, broken more stones for the

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

constitution: "Article 1. This association shall be called 'The Lancaster County So- ciety for the Encouragement of American Manufactures'; and shall consist of such persons residing therein as shall subscribe to these articles, and pay to the treasurer the sum of fifty cents. "Article 2. The officers of the