her as a prize of war. In 1867 she was sold and renamed. In the spring of 1884 the former Harriet Lane was abandoned after grounding off the coast of Brazil. �WARSHIPS NAMED FULTON Robert Fulton, American inventor, was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of 13 he

Christian Huber, another resident of Lancaster County. The agreement reads : "Know All Men by these Presents that We John Cryder of Huntingdon County in the State of Pennsylvania and John Hernly of the County of Lancaster in the said State for a valuable Con sideration to us and each of us at or before the

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

, and his wife Milicent, on June 10, 1731, sold same to Henry Sniggers, then on June 22, 1737, Robert 8 See L. C. H. S. scrap book #81, p. 96; Beers' Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, p. 518. 9 Sunday News, January 31, 1932. �-.96,1).ftro4.74,-x '6 7 41-2:/?:‘,.:OL.. 67.9v77.4446fe,,,ft,../Avq7

. Vandergrift, registrar; and Rev. George H. Shea and Rev. Robert Batchelder, chaplains. Drs, Jerome G. Hess and Lewis M. Johnson were made honorary regents, 23, A new Act of the Pennsylvania Legislature permits County Commissioners to raise annual appropriations to county historical societies from $2000 to

- ducing plant in the world. Apr. 20. Reports showed that employment in Lancaster County for the month of March reached a total of 107,500 persons. Apr. 23. The earnings of the Armstrong Cork Company for the first quarter of this year, after taxes, were $3,698,000. Apr. 23. John H. McGinnis died, aged

pleasant farewell, for his two youngest daughters, Nancy and Rachel, had come from Lancaster to bid him good-bye. �Working For Pennsylvania Ellicott was employed on many occasions by the Keystone State. In 1786, he surveyed the boundary of Pennsylvania and New York from the Delaware River to the ninetieth