president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best

of the Poor and Employment to be classified as a hospital from its inception. This classification allows it to lay claim to being the second oldest hospital in the United States in continuous service, being antedated only by the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, which was established fifty years