The History of the Gas and electric industries in Lancaster County By HORACE RICHARDS BARNES Introduction STUDENTS of economics and business are familiar with con- solidations and mergers. Indeed integration, either horizontal or vertical, or a combination of the two types of integration, is an

and, until the internal revenue tax came into effect during the Civil War, sold at the prices quoted. The popularity of these cigars, which were among the first of Lancaster County manufactured cigars, is attested by the com- plaint made some fifty-five years ago by a then "Old Timer" who had lived to

upper parts of Chester County as determined by the Boundary CommissiOners Who had been appointed in February, 1729, "be erected and are accordingly erected intO a county by the name of Lancaster County." On May 10, 1729, an Act of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania prOviding "that all and