Joseph Lehn, The Wood Turner And His Now Fantastically Valuable Wooden Wares. By CARL W. DREPPERD Joseph Lehn, the subject of this text, was a Lancaster County wood turner who never drew his bow, even at a venture, at the target of fame. He was born February 6, 1798. He died September 16, 1892

most distorted state. Our love to Betsy and the family. Yours respectfully, Jasper Yeates 10 Edward Burd Thompson Letters, Department Of Public Documents, Harrisburg, Penna. �The letter, as indicated, was written in Lancaster at three o'clock p.m. on January 17, the date of Peter's death, and the

A LANCASTER COUNTY BUSINESSMAN AND THE WAR OF 1812 The following is part of a story about a Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania family — and its home — from the time of settlement in 1710 until the present. This particular section covers the war years, 1812-15. It cen- ters around the then head of the

pleasant. His duties in the Land Office were not heavy ; here he had time to pursue his studies in the field of science ; here nine of his children grew to maturity ; and four of them married before the family left our borough. But a call to the chair of Professor of Mathematics, and as acting head or

love residing here," she confided, "a Miss Coleman—and I have heard the family bear him no good will, dating from that eventi The story I heard—the lady com- mitted suicide in a fit of jealousy, believing he had ceased to love her."2 Curiosity had been stirred, in part, by a melodramatic but highly

, for that year in a little suburban farm near the Conestoga, while the battles of the Peninsula and Antietam and Chan- cellorsville devour our county's sons, and the grim forebodings of Gettysburg sound for those who can hear. Immanuel C. Pehrson is something of a mystery. We know that he was an orphan

University of Pennsylvania. He was reared in a family of surpassing culture. He did not earn his way through college and seminary. It was not necessary. His family were abundantly able to maintain him financially and did. This knowledge of my beloved senior was disclosed in casual conversation. There was no

Millstones and Their Varied Mtge BY PAUL B. FLORY The average person when thinking of "Millstones" associates their use with the grinding of corn, wheat and other farm cereals.' In this conclusion they are probably eighty to ninety per cent correct. One of the objects of this paper is to acquaint

that had by time attained national prominence. Talking about his venture into publishing the Intelligencer, the twenty-year-old news- paperman wrote his future friend and President: " . . . It was a most miserable concern when, in March last, it (Intelligencer) came into our hands. 1 The Biographical