ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

province in America with hope and longing. Henry Baird in his "Huguenot Emigration to America" says: "There were no emigrants whom William Penn desired more ardently for his plantations on the Delaware and Susquehanna than the persecuted Huguenots. Many of them had heard of the advantages of Pennsylvania

-1837; and the Columbia Spy always carried interesting items on the Negro business communities of Columbia in advertisements or news columns. To find further biographical data on the most prominent men, I used the voluminous Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with

Furniture Making by the Slaugh Family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Albert Fletcher Seitz The purpose of this study was to determine the conception of Slaugh furniture making in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and to discover the unique implication of both the Slaugh family and their furniture. The methods

bill on Febru- ary 21, 1822. Samuel Gorgas and Joseph Gorgas (third generation) were subscrib- ers to the "History of Lancaster County," published in 1844. According to Mrs. W. C. Frankfort of 229 West Main Street, Ephrata, the Gorgas family were also fine cabinet makers. Mrs. Frankfort has in her

Lancaster County had several stations most of them established by Quakers. Hannah Gibbons was the wife of the Quaker Daniel Gibbons. Their granddaughter, MARIANNA GIBBONS BRUBAKER, wrote this about the family, in a paper she presented on the subject, "The Underground Railroad," in the Lancaster County

, Penna. 6Egles, History of Lebanon—Page 149. 'Lebanon County Historical Society notes of Mrs. Lea on Beck Family. 'Penna. Archives, Vol. XVII, 3rd Series—Page 837. 'Penna. Archives, Vol. XVII, 3rd Series—Page 385, Pages 837 & 865. "Lebanon Twp. Triennial Asessment list Dauphin County Court House

, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Of these three (3) brothers, John Bachman I is of particular interest to us because he was the father of John Bachman II who is our first documented Bachman Cabinetmaker and the one who made the finest pieces of all the Bachman Cabinetmakers. John Bachman I has been referred

remembered widely in Lancaster as a fine Christian gentleman, a wonderful father, and as a builder and operator of theatres where no member of a family ever need worry about hear- ing a foul or profane word, or an off-color joke. The Krupa repu- tation was built on clean, wholesome entertainment

we put together the fragments handed down to us— some of them recorded and others only tradition—we gain some en- lightenment on the introduction of the Catholic Faith in these parts during the pre-pioneer days. The first known white men to enter Lancaster County were Jesuit missionaries from the