Society was formed, officers elected, committees ap- pointed, and plans made to obtain stock subscriptions. David G. Eshelman, an attorney, was elected president of the Society. Other officers were the Rev. Dr. J. Max Hark, minister of the Moravian Church, vice president; Dr. Henry Carpenter, physician

Met in Philadelphia on the 30th of December, 1849 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The General Committee, 1850), pp. 1-8. 3. Louis Hartz, Economic Policy and Democratic Thought: Pennsylvania, 1776-1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1948), p. 15; Victor S. Clark, History of Manufactures in the United

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

-expanding railroads in general, and for the Pennsylvania Railroad in particular: 4 The Safe Harbor Iron Works was an "integrated plant," that is, the owners controlled the ore sources, pig iron production, and manufacture of wrought iron into a finished product. 15 Organization, ownership and financing of

municipality or society, to appropriate funds for compilation of county war histories or any general history or historical account related to the records and government of the county, and for the publication and distribution of the same. Section 1929 permits counties to appropriate up to $2000 to the oldest

, which fol- lowed the iron rolling developments, made use of similar machin- ery, processes and terms, for which a present tense description would be appropriate. Much of the data herewith listed has been compiled from many sources, such as Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, the reports of the

Pennsylvania was expected to unite the rivals. The first meeting of Beissel and Mack concluded all such hopes. Beissel was approached by the condescending, solicitous Mack who cried, "The peace of God the Lord be with you!" as he embraced the cold, aloof Beissel. The laconic reply was, "We have that peace

buildings today. �in the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania and was a power to be reckoned with in legislative matters.111 During the struggle over the chartering of the United States Bank at Harrisburg in 1836, Henry Haldeman was opposed to the notion of chartering the bank. To overcome his opposition, sup

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster