: b. Feb. 1, 1769; d. June 26, 1816, in 48th year. Wife, Dorothy Hand. Served as major in Pa. Militia, 1797. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 4, pp. 468, 588. Pvt. in Capt. Shippen's Co., the "Lancaster County Dragoons." Klein's Hist. of Lancaster Co., Pa., Vol. 2, p. 596. Buried in St. James's Episcopal

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

at Franklin & Marshall College and member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Pro- fessor Barnes, in turn presented as the speaker of the day, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and an authority on the history

of "A History of Aviation," as it relates to our own Lancaster county. In the newspaper world, with which I am familiar, history is a thing of hours, or a day. Stale news is lost in the limbo of history; and, as history is being made every hour and every day, I believe that I am on safe ground. As a

that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

encouragement of domestic manu- factures and national industry, and to make a common cause in the prosecu- tion of objects of such high importance. It cannot be supposed that the people of Lancaster county, prompted as they are by every consideration of patriot- ism and interest, will want zeal in the promotion