THE MILITARY RECORD OF GENERAL JOHN F. REYNOLDS Any record that General John F. Reynolds made would have to be military. He put on his cadet grey in 1837 and stayed in the army until he fell at Gettysburg twenty-six years later. Grant got to be president of the United States. McClellan tried, then

fatal to many an aeronaut's balloon. It was finished in the spring of 1836 and he named it the "METEOR" and when pronounced thoroughly airtight, he was back in business again. "The citizens of Lancaster," John stated, "were desirous of having an aerial experiment on a most liberal scale," and

JOHN PEARSON'S DESCRIPTION OF LANCASTER AND COLUMBIA IN 1801 John Pearson believed that the "various abilities and different pursuits of men" should be exerted for "the information and instruction of the whole." He was one of the founders and ardent supporters of "the Friendly Society for diffusing

love of Repub- licanism can win for them the noble approbation of their friends, they will never want for their approval. If a sharp attention to local concerns is needed — they will ever be on the look out. James H. Bryson, John W. Forney." In an editorial on December 26, 1837, in the same newspaper

provide all things necessary for the reception, lodging, maintenance and employment of said poor. By the sixth section of the Act passed by the State Legislature, February 27, 1797, Edward Hand, Thomas Boude, George Musser, James Morrison, John Funk, Peter Ellmaker, Frederick Seegar, George Illig and

, was the seventh son of John Grubb who came to this country from Cornwall, Wales, and landed in New Jersey in 1677. He mar- ried Frances Vane and there were nine children born of this marriage, Peter I, being the seventh son. John died at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania in 1708. Peter Grubb I, first married

the diary itself. An ordinary "blank book" (6 by 7 inches) with ruled pages and red-lined margins, it bears the embossed stamp of "John Sheaffer, Bookseller and Stationer, North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa." Inside the front cover, are pasted words clipped from some periodical, "War for the Union. Men of

City to Directors of the Poor of Lancaster County for broken stone. 12 August 1878. Invoice from Lancaster & Williams Town Pike Co. for hauling gravel. 13 August 1878. Invoice from John F. Stauffer for paving stone. 15 August 1878. Invoice from John Wetzel for paving materials. 19 August 1878. Invoice

maintain peace with the savages and to create for Pennsylvania a legend of fair dealing and peace with the Redmen. As early as 1705 James Logan held an Indian treaty at Con- estoga in which trade was discussed and John Hans Steelman discouraged from building a trading house among the Conestoga Indians