. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

Spy L &well and "The Columbia Spy By ROBERT H. GOODELL In the early days of newspapers, Marietta was a hearty rival to Columbia, and also had its weekly newspaper. The Marietta Pilot was published as early as November, 1813, by John Huss, a soldier of the war of 1812. The earliest copy of the Pilot

Cannon Hill and the Hessian Ditch With Personal Reminiscences of the Furnace Hills By HERBERT H. BECK Cannon Hill, in northern Elizabeth Township, 1 is one of the hills in the red sandstone range which extends along the border line between Lancaster and Lebanon counties. All of this country

Levi K. Brown, and grandson of Jeremiah Brown, who represented Lancaster County in Congress from 1840 to 1844 (see Vol. 34, p. 55). At the age of twenty-five years, "Billy" Brown, as he was called then, engaged in his first work on railroads—trial surveys on the Lancaster, Ox- ford and Southern Road

had established the Juliana Library, it being one of the five libraries then in Pennsylvania. In another two years (1752), Henry Miller and Samuel Holland were printing newspapers in the old town—the Lancaster Gazette, a bi-lingual paper. The population had grown to 1500. Another two years pass and

the inscription : "Dr. Henry S. Son of Henry and Anna B. Musselman, Died April 6, 1870 in Schwetzinger, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany In the 27th year of his age. Formerly of this place.") In the early years of his children, a governess directed their edu- cation, and lived with the family, occupying

Schools and education in the &rough 01 Lancaster By P. M. HARBOLD An Act of the Provincial Council of the Colony of Pennsylvania, passed February 6, 1730, permitted "any religious society of Protestants . . . to purchase or establish houses for schools, etc." In the spirit of this Act, the

Unpublished Letters Jasper With Added Notes on Lancaster County's Part in the Whiskey Rebellion These letters are published through the courtesy of Mrs. Bertha Cochran Landis and the late Edward Shippen Thompson: Dear Sir Lancaster October 1st 1794. I yesterday received as Attorney in Fact for Mr

. James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the United States in President Coolidge's administration, at Lititz, Pa., about twenty years ago. Mr. Beck was a Lancaster Countian, a native of Lititz, and a first cousin of our Society's President, Dr. Herbert H. Beck. His familiarity with records of the United