United States Congress from 1789 to the present / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legislators--United States. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1865-1950. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930

Public Meeting to Restore Lancaster's Form of Government From a City to a Borough By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ANCASTER was incorporated as a borough May 1st, 1742, and enjoyed that form of government for nearly seventy-six years when, by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, dated March

, which were far above the ordinary, were such that he deserves a place in the annals of this Society. In order to understand the part he played in the struggle for freedom and in the organization of the new government, it will be of interest to know, just who he was and something of what he did, before

Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a communication to Thomas McKean, governor of Pennsylvania, which was as follows : "It is not our custom

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

Supervisors in allowed & ord. to be entd." PILGRIMAGE OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Friday, October 9th, 1931, one hundred members and friends of The Historical Society of Berks County, made a pilgrim- age to places of historic interest in Lancaster city and county

provide better for them. In the county of Berks there is a number of people of the communion of the Church of England, who have never had an Episcopal minister among them, and I intend to visit them in the spring and shall acquaint you with the result. "I went into the army for the reasons which I gave

time as Lancaster was not incorporated as a city until March 20th, 1818. Mennonites of Donegal and Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a

Clockmaker's Company of London, and advertised this clock extensively �in "Commonwealth Mercury," a newspaper of London, on November 25, 1661. A picture of a Fromanteel clock in appearance is almost an exact counterpart of most of our Lancaster County grandfather clocks, which were first made in this county

A History Of An Old Frame Grist Mill Converted Into A Schoolhouse and of the Ancient Durlach Schoolhouse by DAVID G. EBERLY It is beginning to be more and more the custom of holding annual reunions at rural schoolhouses in our section of the county. On Sunday afternoon, August 18th, 1935, the