stopped in Pennsylvania while traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC.44 Arriving in Lancaster on Friday morning, February 11, 1927, to begin four days of meetings, McPherson was immediately confronted by the local press who prodded her for information concerning her alleged kidnapping during the

The Grand Army of the Republic in Lancaster County by Glenn B. Knight It was early 1866 and the United States of America — now securely one nation again — was waking to the reality of recovery from war. In prior wars the care for the veteran warrior was the province of the family or the community

free from the cancer of vice and sin, the records of the Lancaster County Court state otherwise. Upright gentlemen of Lancaster could visit the towns along the Susquehanna River, but bawdyhouses were to be found scattered throughout the county. During the 1880s an effort was made in Lancaster to form a

expansion of the city made it economically advantageous to develop ground once set aside for burial.2 The late 1840s and early 1850s were unusually prosperous years in Lancaster. As the city's economy recovered from the effects of the Panic of 1837, new industries, most notably the Conestoga Steam Cotton

County. In April 1977 the physicians of Lancaster gathered to honor Dr. Elizabeth Bricker who would celebrate her 100th birthday on 25 April. After attending Pennsylvania State University for premedical studies, she was graduated in 1903 with thirty-three other women from the Woman's Medical College of

until his death. 66 By 1843 they had relocated to New Cumberland, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he established himself as a jeweler.' In 1845 he resettled the family in Lancaster County's Columbia Borough. 68 In 1847 he ran an ad in the Columbia Spy stating that he had moved his shop to the

literature available to Lancaster Countians 125 to 250 years ago. Lancaster County's antecedent was Chester County, one of Penn's original three counties. The first permanent community located in what was to become Lancaster County was settled in 1710. From 1710 until 1729 when Lancaster County was erected

, 1872, Lancaster, PA. �5. A History of Professional Entertainment at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania: 1852-1930, AThesis in Theater Arts, by Tyler L. Griener, 1977. 6. Lancaster Intelligencer, January 20, 1872, Lancaster, PA. 7. Daily Evening Express, January 23, 1872, Lancaster, PA. 8

. The company did serve a timely need, and many lives were affected by its existence in one way or another. Below is an excerpt from the book called Lancaster County Pennsylvania— A History, written in 1924 by Dr. H.M.J. Klein, a highly venerated historian and a professor under whom the writer studied

finest examples of Swiss-German domestic architecture to have survived from colonial Pennsylvania.44 If evidence concerning the homes in which Lancaster County's earliest French inhabitants lived is sparse, documentation on their domestic furnishings is even more scarce. Only a few estate inventories for