Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

. Towamencin Twp., Montgomery County and Philadelphia. — A famous pre-Revolutionary clockmaker, contemporary of David Rittenhouse, a native of Towamencin Twp. (then in Phila. County but now Mont- gomery). His earlier clocks bear the title "Jacob Godschalk, Towamencin." In the late 1760's Jacob Godschalk moved

active participation of citizens in government, 1953 �• CONTENTS History ------------- -------- ------------------ ______________ _____page 3, Lancaster Goes to Its Court House --------------:------------- -------page 4 The County; its powers, the commissioners, the courts ________________page 5 The

her as a prize of war. In 1867 she was sold and renamed. In the spring of 1884 the former Harriet Lane was abandoned after grounding off the coast of Brazil. �WARSHIPS NAMED FULTON Robert Fulton, American inventor, was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of 13 he