• Men Lancaster Was Pennsylvania's Capital BY GEORGE L. HEIGES Continued from Vol. LV, No. 1 New Year's Day in 1802 was obviously not observed as a holiday, for on that day both houses of the Pennsylvania State Assembly were in session at Lancaster, the seat of government. Reading the legislative

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

Hostetter, York County Jacob Bonnett, Bedford County James Montgomery, Westmoreland County John Minor, Greene County John Hamilton, Washington County Nathaniel Irish, Alleghany County The Republican ticket won the election on November 2, and these men were duly chosen by the electorate of Pennsylvania to be

should be mentioned at this point that the placing of the capital at Lancaster was only a temporary arrangement, and that the responsibility of establishing a permanent capitol for Pennsylvania therefore devolved on future legislators. The seat of government of this State has recently been removed to Lan