Furniture Making by the Slaugh Family of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Albert Fletcher Seitz The purpose of this study was to determine the conception of Slaugh furniture making in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and to discover the unique implication of both the Slaugh family and their furniture. The methods

a great deal about the eco- nomic and social differences long noted in other historical accounts between this Negro occupational group and the mass of common black laborers. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly representa- tive and appropriate place for a study of this nature. Most

case of Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, which became the "Gun Capital of the New World."1 Perhaps none of the innumerable gunsmiths who worked in the Lancaster area over a period of years deserves as much recognition for the growth of the gun manufacturing center as does Henry Eichholtz Leman. The renowned

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

A case in point is offered in the pamphlet entitle 1 List of 104 Maga- zines Against the Distribution and Sale of Which the District At- �torneys of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania have issued Warning which quotes two letters from District Attorney, Charles W. Eaby, dated June 24, 1936 and December 8

-five miles west of Lancaster. In its early days, that part of the Conewago Valley with which we are concerned, was claimed by Maryland as part of her colony. Pennsylvania also claimed it, and back in the 1730's and 1740's, it was a part of Lancaster County. Not until after the Mason-Dixon survey was

bill on Febru- ary 21, 1822. Samuel Gorgas and Joseph Gorgas (third generation) were subscrib- ers to the "History of Lancaster County," published in 1844. According to Mrs. W. C. Frankfort of 229 West Main Street, Ephrata, the Gorgas family were also fine cabinet makers. Mrs. Frankfort has in her

M. LUTHER HEISEY THE LANE FAMILY OF LANCASTER Despite the overshadowing influence of James Buchanan, the Lane Family man- aged to chalk up a few points of its own, all of which are told here by the Venerable Bede of Lancaster. THE LANES COULD SAY, "DEAR UNCLE" With the destruction of two business

of other associations in the county and state, regulating the practice of dentistry, until 1877 when he retired from active life and settled in Millersville, Lancaster County, where he resided for some time. Dr. McCalla has done as much as any man in Pennsylvania to give dental surgery the high place

. The "Circular of Terms" for the Beck Family School for Boys is a case in point. �Moravian Family School for a Limited number of Boys, Abraham R. Beck, Principal. Litiz [sic], Lancaster County, Pa. Terms. "For tuition and all domestic expenses, $300 a year, to be paid half-yearly in advance, in