years under the declining physical ability of Governor Mifflin. McKean, while looked upon by some as being too austere and aristocratic in his bearing to be a true Jeffersonian, nevertheless had accummulated a great amount of prestige during forty years of public life in Pennsylvania; and Alexander

published his treatise under the following title. A NARRATIVE OF THE LATE MASSACRES IN ,LANCASTER COUNTY OF A NUMBER OF INDIANS FRIENDS OF THIS PROVINCE BY PERSONS UNKNOWN WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SAME PRINTED IN THE YEAR M, DCC, LXIV �Permit for William Frizzel to carry mail between Lancaster and

Hostetter, York County Jacob Bonnett, Bedford County James Montgomery, Westmoreland County John Minor, Greene County John Hamilton, Washington County Nathaniel Irish, Alleghany County The Republican ticket won the election on November 2, and these men were duly chosen by the electorate of Pennsylvania to be

nephews. Peter Muhlenberg was a son of General Peter Muhlenberg, and John Philip Emanuel Muhlenberg was a son of Rev. Henry Muhlen- berg, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster. Because all of the clerks in his office were of his own family, F. A. C. Muhlenberg was accused of nepotism. After the

, which after countless "trials and tribula- tions" is now firmly established as one of the most important adjuncts to the physi- cal well-being of the citizens of Lancaster County.1 THE BEGINNING Sixty-five years have gone by since June 15, 1893, when fifty people met in the old Y.M.C.A. building on

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by