early Pre sidential Elections in Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, participated in each of the Presidential Elections held since the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. It occupies first place in Pennsylvania in respect to the election of George

our attention to one little section in the United States, for by a detailed examination of feeling in one section we can easily gain some perspective as to how the people in all the United States felt in this crucial year. Let us go to Pennsylvania, to the Lancaster County of 1856. Lancaster County is

. Within recent years the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia has been a source of gas to help meet the increased demand. We of Lancaster County are vitally concerned, both as private citizens using gas, and as persons interested in our in- dustrial development, about the future growth and

in history, yet neglected by the historian. This church, St. John's (Center) Evangelical and Reformed, has a long his- tory and an enviable record for supplying the old Reformed Church in the United States with an unusually large number of clergymen, some of whom have been leaders in the life and

/ The Health of / Soldiers / Recommended to / The Consideration of the / Officers / Of the Army of the United / States" / By Benjamin Rush, M. D. / PubIished by Order of the Board / of War / Lancaster : Printed by John Dunlap / In Queen Street." �the columns of the Pennsylvania Packet. In the issue of

officer in the Revolu- tionary War. John Wright, Jr., married Eleanor Barber, whose father, as noted above, was the first sheriff of Lancaster County. Mention has also been made of his ferry-house on the west bank of the Susquehanna. For several years, he Was a member of the General Assembly from York

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

those needing hospitali- zation were directed toward the Cloister. The picture of their dreary march may be drawn from a few pathetic words of an eye witness—a Lancaster County soldier who stated, "Some were in wagons, some were in carts, and those who were able to walk did so. As they passed in the

paper money, to which the private issues of Lancaster County Scrip were somewhat related. BIT See Fip 'n' Bit. CROWNS French coin in rather common use following the American Revo- lution; were also issued by Germany. DERNIER English coin. Benj. Furley—Penn's land agent in the Province of Pennsylvania

lieutenant in the regular army and assigned him to the 5th Cavalry. At the end of the war Vail was a major and remained in the army until 1871, when he resigned, and died at his home in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, about 1912. Reynolds' body was shipped to Baltimore and was brought to Philadelphia, where it was