scarcely more helpful, even though they all mention the name James LeTort. Our early historian, Rupp, was accurate as far as he went. In a footnote he says, "James LeTort was a French Huguenot . . . he lived on or near the banks of the Susquehanna within the present limits of Lancaster County in 1719." But

County to modern times. This group of French Huguenots settled in Landau near the Rhine, where they resided for two years. Then they moved to a small adjacent village named Steinweiler. Here their son Philip Fiere was born in 1687. The father, Daniel Fiere, died that same year leaving his wife, Marie

Rose, a member of the Lancaster bar, so it was in that city that Ann grew up and met and married William Henry, a young man who was head of a large gun manufacturing estab- lishment and active in the life of the community. William Henry was born May 19, 1729, in Chester County, the son of Scotch

MARION WALLACE RENINGER ANN MOORE & MARY DICKSON It may come as a pleasant surprise to many citizens of Lancaster who have urged that more women be appointed or elected to positions in local, state or national government, when they learn that two of the heads of our Lancaster postoffice, in the

activity, whose exploits were set down in the annals of their time. Among the famous women of Lancaster County one notes the name of Ann Scott Galbraith, wife of Andrew Gal- braith. She was the first woman political worker in the history of Lan- caster County. In the year 1731 she actually made possible

a great deal about the eco- nomic and social differences long noted in other historical accounts between this Negro occupational group and the mass of common black laborers. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly representa- tive and appropriate place for a study of this nature. Most

Gibbons deserves a place on the roll of women of whom Lancaster County can be proud. �APPENDIX List of some of the men who helped in the Underground Railroad stations in Lancaster County William Wright Columbia Daniel Gibbons 1775-1853 Dr. Joseph Gibbons, Bird-in-Hand 1818-1883 Dr. J. K. Eshleman