member of the Democratic Committee of Correspondence in 1843, and when Zachary Taylor visited Lancaster William Mathiot made the address of welcome. From April 1845 to April 1848, he served as deputy attorney general. Mathiot was an honored member of the Old Residents' Society of Columbia which consisted

other German Baptists observed the Sabbath on Sunday. Beissel's power was growing with a vigor Becker was unable to match. Soon converts were setting up cabins along Mill Creek in order to be with the young preacher. In 1725 the widow and the four sons of Michael Eckerling, �an outstanding Pietist of

Republic's birth seems imprudent. Not until iron- and steel-making became "big business" in the latter part of the nineteenth century did an air of drama once more surround the blast furnace—and then from the perspective of the financier's ornate Victorian drawing room! Let us then consider the period of

troubled souls unto the paths of righteousness and bliss, they do preserve and nourish the moral and intellectual tradition of our civilization remarkably well. County historical societies simply haven't got an emotive corkscrew for drawing out funds from the public; they must depend on the rare bequest