The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

Wolf and James Dougherty, in 1838 were granted the first patent for a solid railroad car wheel casting. As the iron industry, both primary and secondary, that is, pig iron production and wrought iron shapes, and articles made from cast or wrought iron, developed in Lancaster County the interest in

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

, although the Spy declined to men- tion the number. 32. Ibid., 21 October, 1876. 33. Lancaster New Era, 24 October, 1884. 34. Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 24 October, 1884. 35. Philadelphia Press,2 August, 1888. 36. Columbia Herald, 11 August, 1888. 37. The Columbia Spy, 18 August, 1888. 38. Ibid., 13

. cit., p. 54. 20. The Columbia Spy. 8 March 1856. 21. The Lancaster Intelligencer, 18 February 1855. 22. Lawrence Van Horn, "The Old Buck Cannon," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIV (Autumn, 1960), 219-220; United States Patent Office, Patent No. 13,984, 25 December 1855. �23