following year, the Department of Pennsylvania, G.A.R. was organized in Philadelphia. The fraternity grew and by the turn of the century was a political and social force with wide power and influence. That influence grew locally, too, as the Lancaster County contingent was the only Pennsylvania county with

statutes then current should be incorporated into Pennsylvania statutes. This library, now at the Lancaster County Historical Society, is considered the fourth most important library of its kind in the nation. Lancaster Countians not only have been readers; they have been authors. The first history of the

representation in the Society." This liberal attitude of the Lancaster County Medical Society, and the fact that the hospitals in Lancaster allowed women to intern much earlier than hospitals in other areas, surely played a part in the reason for the great number of "hen" medics finding their way into Lancaster

, housed in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Lancaster County Historical Society, and the American Philosophical Society. These collections also contain some of Sally's letters and references to her which provide insight to her character and experience. The writer limited her study to

, during the latter part of the century, American society changed as the United States became an urban-industrial nation.5,6 In Lancaster, people began to move from the farms to the city in the 1890s. Agriculture remained the major source of wealth in the county, but large manufacturing industries soon

, Wright presided over the first session of court to be held in and for Lancaster County. That first session encompassed both the Quarter Sessions of the Peace and the Common Pleas courts. On 1 October 1729, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly where he resumed his various committee responsibili

virtual elimination of vice — particularly organized vice —in twentieth- century Lancaster. Dr. Twombley retired to his home in New England, and on 29 December 1942 he passed into dreamless sleep. �94/4, 1992 113 Thirty years later, the officers of the Law and Order Society decided their efforts had been

existence of older cemeteries. The Nissly and Musser family burial plots, for example, located in the northeast quadrant of Lancaster, had been displaced when the Pennsylvania Railroad laid tracks entering the city, as was the old Quaker Cemetery. A similar fate surely would befall other graveyards as urban

economic institutions. Pentecostalism found its way into Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1907 through a seminary student who had rejected its tenets only a year before. In the pages that follow the author will provide a brief recounting of Pentecostalism's historical and theological origins as

Locksmiths and Locks in Lancaster County By Henry J. Kauffman The focus of this survey will be on the locksmiths and locks of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1780-1890. A review of the publications about Lancaster County reveals that nothing has been published on either of the two subjects. Such an