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

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

., Charles I. Landis, Esq.. Frank Griest, P. Eckert Slaymaker, and J. B. Hipple. In the brick church, east of Willow Street, services were conducted by Rev. Amos Herr. Bishop Benjamin Herr pronounced the benediction. In- terment was made in the adjoining cemetery. Mechanics' Society of the City and County of

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

by having been asked by Honorable Henry C, Niles, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, and also President of the York County Historical Society, to act as his sub- stitute on the program for this memorable historic occasion, I regret very much that Judge Niles was not able to