bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

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

his age. Wife, Hannah. Served from Philadelphia in Co. of Infantry, "Independent Blues," 1st Regt., Pa. Volunteers, under Capt. Peter A. Brown and Col. Clement C. Biddle. Beers' Biog. Annals, p. 420; Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 8, p. 315. Buried in Old Leacock Presbyterian Churchyard. BITNER (Bidner

," under the following heading, dated March 19th, 1867: "ORIGIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL SYSTEM. "To the Editors of the Express : "Believing that the following facts may be of interest to the friends of education; and that, at any rate, they should be pre- served, I ask a place for them in your widely

subscriptions, dona- tions and proceeds from the sale of manufactured articles, to December 14th, 1824, amounted to $671.46 ; while the expenditures totaled $676.30. The number of persons furnished with employ- ment in spinning, weaving, bleaching, etc., exceeded one hundred and twenty. Until the time the

confidant on many matters personal, political and legal. Lancas- ter county has not produced his equal ; died full of years and of honors, in his 92nd year. The last year he lived with his step- daughter, at 341/2 South Duke street, Lancaster, Pa., where he died, at three A. M., Friday, December 12

France, and came to America with General Lafayette, as an eighteen months' man. He afterwards enlisted with Capt. Sterger, in the Maryland Line, and served to the end of the Revo- lutionary War. He lived in Franklin county, Pa., and was on a visit to his son at the time of his death." 35. HIPPLE, JACOB

and died June 15th, 1851. In 1820, he opened a studio in Marietta, Pa., and there began his career as artist and teacher. In 1849, he opened a studio, and a gallery for exhibition of paintings, in Mechanics' Institute, Lancaster; and, later, had a large studio, built by himself, in Orange street