Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

., July 25th, 1811. "Sir, "We have received yours of the 18th inst. enclosing a draft of James Houston, on the Bank of Pennsylvania, for $681.51, for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in this town. This unusual liberality, from a people suffering the same calamity with our- selves, calls forth

of this disaster reached Lancaster a town meeting was held and committees were appointed to solicit contributions to assist in the relief of the sufferers. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, August 2nd, 1811, published the following statement of monies collected and by whom : North-east Ward. By Messrs

fire, for the purpose of taking into consideration the situation of the sufferers, Hon. Patton Ross, recorder of the city of Lancaster, was appointed chairman, and Emanuel C. Reigart, secretary. A committee, consisting of Hon. James Buchanan, John Myer, George B. Porter, Jasper Slaymaker and Major John

- tunate people of their property and left them, for the time, without homes or the means of acquiring sustenance. Immediately after the fire, a committee, consisting of promi- nent citizens of New Castle, was formed for the purpose of obtain- ing assistance from the benevolent in adjoining states. The Com

clothing for the relief of the sufferers were made in many cities and towns of the country. The legislature of Pennsylvania appropriated ten thousand dollars. A meeting of the citizens of Lancaster was held at the court house on Saturday evening, February 5th, 1820, for the purpose of securing relief for

, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's Contribution to Portsmouth in the Fire of 1802 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N

foregoing, it is evident that collections were also made in the fall of 1796. Whether the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," was responsible for the good work, or whether some other agency accomplished the task, is not known. Lancaster's Contribution to Fayetteville in the Fire of 1831 By WILLIAM

Lancaster's Contribution to Snow Hill in the Fire of 1834 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In The Lancaster Union of December 9th, 1834, appeared a communication, under the date of November 25th, which is as follows: "I have just emerged from a night of horrors. The center of the most valuable section of