the outbreak of the Revolution, the state decided to use these facilities as prisons for the captured British and Hessian soldiers. The Hessians were mer- cenary soldiers from Hesse, Germany, hired to fight for the British. The non-commissioned prisoners were confined in the barracks, which was

" were known, ironmasters formed in- dustrial dynasties through the marriages of their children.) Robert Cole- man"s daughter, Ann, became engaged to James Buchanan, then a promis- �14 JOURNAL Robert Coleman ing young attorney in Lancaster, later to become President of the United States. The marriage

, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Learning that your Honorable bodies contemplate passing an Act of Assembly to provide for the erection of a penitentiary for the confinement of criminals convicted in the central part of the State, we, the undersigned Com

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

Cycles: 1865-1897 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The Uni- versity of North Carolina Press, 1959), p. 92. 58. Lancaster Daily Express, 14 October, 1865. 59. Schuleen, op. cit., p. 89; Fels, op. cit., pp. 96-98; supra, pp. 85-90. 60. United States, Ninth Census, "Wealth and Industry" (Washington, D.C., 1872) III, 725

two dozen staterooms, no pas- sengers dared make the trip, and only a few crewmen were aboard." As the steam engine became improved, the sailing vessels gradually disappeared. Professor J. Olney, in his 1836 History of the United States, related that the amount of tonnage in the U.S. reckoning the

. Schuleen, op. cit., p. 90. 24. Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1885 (New York, N.Y.: H.V. and H.W. Poor, 1885), p. 267. 25. Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, 1879-1880, op. cit., p. 44; 1880-1881, op. cit., p. 36; Schuleen, op. cit., p. 90. 26. The Columbia

destroyed. With his entrance into politics the absentee ownership of his properties nearly drove him into bankruptcy. Stevens was a poor businessman and he detested the details of finance. In 1833 Stevens was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives on the Anti-masonic ticket. His hatred of

through in pipelines that form a corridor under Salisbury Township. The shoe was on the other foot in the Civil War period when Lancaster Countians joined in the speculative rage for oil. In the 1864-1865 period no less than eight different companies were formed locally to drill wells, refine oil, and

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and