Library was the only library for the common people of Lancaster. This does not mean that there were no other sources of literature for the people of the community. Gentlemen's libraries grew to a great extent, some of them becoming quite famous. After a call upon James Buchanan, at Wheatland, in 1852, a

. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

trestle, the line crossed the tracks of the Lancaster, Marietta and Hanover Branch of the Philadel- phia and Reading Railroad. The cars continued then along level ground and finally swung on to the present Marietta pike below Marietta at a point known as the "Red Barn." The cars ran up Market Street in

state- ment recently told me by C. H. Martin to the effect that the above mentioned were the first real estate agents in Lancaster County. Hans Boyer emigrated to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, and in 1736 purchased 200 acres of land, which were a part of a tract of 5,000