%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Evans, Samuel, Title: A centennial event / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slaymaker family. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc

County. Her mar- ried sister, into whose protection Mrs. Hastings records she had been thrown "by the rough hand os unrelenting adversity" was in declining health when her husband (who, for several years, had owned a farm in the extreme western part os the State) determined to remove his samily to that

Chairman Har- rity and many other outsiders in this way have been introduced to, and have been made to especially feel, the beauties and resources of Lancaster county. But to a New Era reporter Mr. Hen- sel admitted the other day he had never joined so thoroughly apprecia- tive and intelligent a company

neglect to do, viz., he kept a diary for thirty- three years. The books for three years have been lost. It is too early to measure the extent of this loss. From the copious records of the other thirty years, in 1893, Jacob Cox Parsons, of New York, his great-grandson, pub- lished a volume of extracts

- prietor, danced the minuet to "wilder music" than even the Indians made; and the Jewesses, "not long since come from New York," "made a tolerable ap- pearance" and the "large and elegant supper" was served in such manner "that the female dancers first ate," I can well understand why my chronicler and

appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

constituency, were not of local birth or ancestry. Reynolds, alone of our citizens of the first file in fame's roll, was both born and buried in his own county. Fulton and Ramsay, "to the manner born," early escaped their na- tive environment and achieved na- tional fame outside this locality; but we have a

citizens of the town. This included the pastors of the (First) Reformed and (Trinity) Lutheran churches, and from them a joint answer was received. The origi- nal manuscript is in possession of D. McN. Stauffer, C. E., B. S., of New York, and by him we are permitted to publish this copy of it, which has

to Baltimore, becoming a member of the Maryland Legislature. His mathematical pursuits brought him to the notice of such men as Rit- tenhouse, Franklin and Washington. In 1789 the latter commissioned him to survey the boundary between Penn- sylvania and New York. It was his �survey that gave us a

went to New Berlin, Union County, Pa., the town next in import- ance to the county seat. He was with Stevens in the Pennsylvania Consti- tutional Convention os 1836, and, like him, voted to give the negro the electoral franchise. He died in 1841, but his sons, Jesse and Louis, in civic and military