houses on East King Street, it brings to mind the names of those once actively engaged at these places. In imagination we can see the spirits of William L. Peiper (cashier of the Lancaster County National Bank) and John N. Lane, merchant, in ani- mated conversation on the work of the wrecking crews

Centennial Exposition of 1876 (Philadelphia) that the collecting of grandfathers' clocks began. Prior to that they had been neglected and even looked upon by some as junk. Then dealers could pick them up for $10 to $25. It was only after hundreds of these fine clocks left Lancaster County that the people

son of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he became an inter- national figure and one of the world's great men of original achieve- ments. In 1878, J. W. Reigart writes, "Fulton's family asked Washing- ton Irving to write a biography of Fulton. After a tentative endeav- or, Irving gave up the undertaking