of the Glatfelter bill as well. Lancaster Chamber of Commerce Directors, in a meeting on February 23, 1925, decided to ask the Commissioners of Lancaster County to join with their contemporaries in York and place the ques- tion of floating a bond issue, which would provide funds for building a public

developments which led to the short-lived domination of Lancaster County's poli- tics by a zealous, sometimes fanatical anti-foreign and anti-Catholic party, a party based on nationalism at the peak of the sectional con- troversy. Considering the diverse population and the history of the county as a sanctuary

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

.)--History--17th century. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 301-309 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.14 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

- rent's Old Thad Stevens: A Story of Ambition shows any evidence of extensive research into Stevens's role in the politics of Lancas- ter County, Pennsylvania, from his removal to Lancaster in 1842 until his death in August, 1868. Stevens's work as a member of the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of

source, the case from another, assembled and put their names on the clock and sold it to some personal friend whom they were able to secure as a customer. �The greater number of the clocks made in this county were from the shops of •the following weil-known men: Shreiners, of Lancaster; the Ebermans, of