prominent lumber dealer; and W. Cary Buchanan, secretary-treasurer of A. J. Steinman's new Lancaster Bolt Com- pany. The "town" was being represented by its share of the literati. Mrs. E. V. Gerhart succeeded Alice Nevin as secretary, and Dr. Thomas Gilmore Apple was reelected president, an office he would

. Spotts, the Rev. Robert Turner, James E.F. Heider, the Rev. Robert C. Batchelder, Russell B. Hershey, and the Rev. J. William Arnold. The Society's complete files were turned over to the Lancaster County Council of Churches, and then to the Lancaster County Historical Society archives, which is the

turn over to the new building fund of the Lancaster Free Public Library its personal property consisting of $30,798.84 in treasury bonds, bank stock and uninvested cash. At the completion of 25 years in the presidential chair, Dr. Beck decided it was time to retire. The January 1949 meeting of the

. Meanwhile, James Hamilton, the proprietor of Lancaster townstead, had arrived on the scene, and became the "political boss." With the support of Hamilton, Edwards was returned to the Assembly in 1735, and again was put on important committees. In January �110 JOURNAL 1736, Edwards was appointed to a

confirmed by the court of quarter sessions. In 1730 Andrew Hamilton and his son, James, began proceedings to acquire a large tract of land lying astride Lancaster and Manheim Townships. On a portion of this tract James Hamilton would lay out a town which he called Lancaster. During the following few years