Egle's Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. 1, p. �4JOSIAH GORGAS, born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1818, son of 3Joseph and Sophia (Atkinson) Gorgas. He was a graduate of West Point in 1841, served in the Mexican War, and was a brigadier general in charge of the ordnance department of the

, two other elements are necessary to develop raw materials into �Cornwall Furnace useful commodities. One of these elements is that of a supply of skilled craftsmen. However, this area is well populated by German craftsmen. There were men needed to pour the castings, charge the furnace and pro- vide

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon

The Reading and Columbia Railroad John D. Denney, Jr. One hundred years ago, on March 15, 1864, the first train ran from Columbia to Reading over the newly-built Reading and Columbia Rail- road. At its height, the world of the Reading and Columbia extended from Sinking Springs on the North to

EDITORIAL STATEMENT In the preceding pages of this issue appears a warm and pleas- ant account of an immigrant who came to Lancaster, worked hard and purposefully, married and reared a family. George Krupa's values guided his life and theatrical work, and as a result the late Mr. Krupa is

Snyder was again acquitted and a Lancaster In- telligencer editorial declared: Michael Snyder is acquitted not because he had not violated the law, but because he had already been acquitted of the offense laid in the present indictment. That first acquittal was accomplished, as has been shown, by J. W

on 4 No- vember 1872. Said parties of the first part agree to furnish all the designs, models, skill, labor, and materials, assume all the risk and expense of trans- portation and setting complete. A suitable dedicatory inscription to be placed upon the die without additional charge. The models for

seeker who would join any party which he felt would most readily yield up political power, 39 a charge which was apparently not totally inaccurate for in 1808 Hambright is recorded as having presided at a Federalist meeting in New Holland, and served as Federalist assemblyman from Lancaster County for

A HISTORY OF MINING IN LANCASTER COUNTY: 1700-1900 Surveying the diversity of mineral re- sources and mining enterprises in Lan- caster County from its beginning, Pro- fessor Jack Locher reveals the economic impact from a historical viewpoint. From the time when William Penn hoped to revive his

Philadelphia show that in October 1773, "the American Glass Manu- facturing Company" took charge "for Henry W. Stiegel". It was the last effort. Stiegel, with Alexander and Charles Stedman, had acquired lands at Manheim. Lots were sold at 16 pounds, 6 shillings. �View of parlor in Coleman House Courtesy of