. 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

they built. Among the very pioneers of railroad building was the capable local civil engineer and surveyor, JOSHUA SCOTT, who planned the State Road through and west of Lancaster in 1833. Many early Lancaster County maps and surveys were drawn by him, one being presented with the compliments of the

, Stiegel named the township for his wife. See the Names of the Townships, by Joseph H. Dubbs, Vol. I, No. 3, Lancaster County Historical Society. F. A. God- charles, in his Pennsylvania History, says the township was named for Queen Elizabeth. 2 The Horseshoe Pike, which was laid out from Downingtown to

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late 1860's was also occupied by Ethelbert Watts 5 at various periods. He was born in Philadelphia, February 25, 1845; was educated in Paris in his earlier years, and later at the University of Pennsylvania, with- drawing in his Junior year to enlist for Civil War service; he was discharged six months