A SURVEY OF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Few problems cause more concern among county historical society officers than those of finance, and particularly, the matter of sufficient income. This is not surprising in view of the emphasis placed on the virtue of the fatted treasury. A

fervor which shall be called its "era of religious prosperity". Era of Religious Prosperity This study concerns the comparisons and contrasts of Ephrata's two periods of prosperity, each approximately seven years in length. The first era began about 1732 with the founding of the Cloisters, and it is this

, Ballord, Chadbowren & Co. By saving both honor and the economic life of Pennsylvania in 1841, Governor David R. Porter brought about an economic and industrial rebirth during which time the iron industry grad- ually adopted the technological improvements. The tariff of 1842 provided the impetus which

March 29, 1763, Georges Mathiot married Lucia Holder.3 1 Stapleton, Memorials of the Huguenots in America, p. 91. 2 Pa. Archives, 2nd Series, pi 428. 3 Records of Trinity Lutheran Church. To Jean and Georges Mathiot the entire family and its descendants owe their origin in the middle Atlantic region

. ��Apparently the Court was hesitant about dividing East Donegal Town- ship in 1840, but the sub-division of West Donegal Township in 1842 in- creased the clamor for dividing East Donegal. Finally, on 19th April 1844, the Court appointed Christian Rauch, Esq., Henry M. Reigert, Esq., and Thomas Lloyd, Esq. to