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

profession, except in emergencies and in consultation. He married Mrs. Ferry, the mother of James H. Ferry' above referred to, as also of Brevet-Major Joseph Ferry, a graduate of West Point, appointed from Colerain township, Lancaster county. Major Ferry was killed when �leading the charge on Molino del Ray

An Old Lancaster County Church To every true American citizen Pennsylvania will ever be of interest in view of the events that occurred on its soil in connection with the origin and development of our glorious re- public. Citizens of Pennsylvania rejoice in their Commonwealth in view of what it is

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

present moment. Six have dropped out. There are at this time twenty-one separate publications issued from the Lancaster press. In the county, outside the city, there are twenty-seven, making forty-seven for the entire county. One other interesting fact deserves to be noticed. Lancaster county, as every

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

unsatisfactory treatment of this important subject. Regretting my in- ability, therefore, to regale you with "apples of gold in pictures of silver," �I trust, however, that God's Word and other evidence by which I have been enabled to remove the veil that has hung like a long night over all pertain- ing to the