shared in the promotion of the Crematorium. Virtually every at- torney in Lancaster held stock in the institution. In the Janaury 1886 issue of The Modern Crematist, the local effort was described in these glowing terms: The cremation interest in Lancaster, Pa., where the first crematorium for general

courts, and no longer was the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. In early Pennsylvania capital offenses included treason, murder, �manslaughter, burglary, rape and arson. That means the death penalty was possi- ble if guilty. Lancaster County's first court session was held in May, 1729, at John

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

have intended is to increase your pride in the diverse talents of Lancaster Countians. When I come to the end of this paper I hope many of you will want to add more to our knowledge of this largely untouched subject. I have no doubt that tinkering and inventing began in Lancaster County whenever the

Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

. 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

furnaces near Marietta." Shawnee Furnaces Robert and James Colvin have the distinction of building the first anthracite furnace in Lancaster County. Named the Shawnee Furnace NOTE: Picture of Shawnee Furnaces is shown in L.C.H.S. Jounral, Vol. 86, No. 1, P. 12. �because the Shawnee Run passed through the

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of justice. Colwell was convicted in Lancaster County for the Benn arson. Levi Anderson alias Henry Young, a horse thief and cigar swindler, was convicted through the efforts of Barnholt. Barnholt and William Wittick were feared in the rugged hills and woodlands of eastern Lancaster County known as