Lancaster New Era. brated as an educator built a home on the Columbia Pike which he named Caernarvon Place. The house was razed several years ago and Degel Israel Synagogue occupies the site. In statuary hail in the Capitol at Washington may be seen the statue of General Peter Muhlenberg which is considered

, 1876 Hon. Edward McPherson (1830-1895) in the course of a noted career was editor of various newspapers in Harrisburg and Philadel- phia, member of Congress 1859-1865, clerk of the National House of �Representatives on two occasions and director of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing. His entire

Lancaster in 1876 Observing the Centennial Year Annotated by Dr. George L. Heiges NOTE OF EXPLANATION In selecting these news items of peculiar interest from the Lancaster dailies which appear in this series of articles the annotator found it necessary to use three different newspapers as the

interest which was na- tural history. His numerous articles in the scientific and agricul- tural magazines of the period were invariably illustrated with his own exquisite drawings, some of which are preserved in the Facken- thal Library. From the time of his arrival in Lancaster until his death in 1880

when one session of an Indian treaty then being consummated in the Lancaster County Court House, was held in the church. Prominent among the commissioners were James Wright of Wright's Ferry, Joseph Fox and Samuel Rhoads of the Provincial Assembly, and William Logan and Richard Peters of the Executive

Lancaster Daily Express commented: The meeting will be a very important one and no doubt a very interest- ing one. The delegates are arriving and though there will hardly be so full an attendance as would have been the case but for the national difficulties yet there will be a strong delegation. We