and vice. German and Irish immigration brought many persons to Lancaster in the middle and late nineteenth century. Unlike earlier immigrants who were for the greater part middle-class artisans that practiced their trades in Lancaster, many of the newer residents competed for the available laboring or

, had yielded to criminal greed. In the wake of the merger of Franklin and Marshall Colleges in 1853 came the Goethean and Diagnothian Societies from Marshall College. Both societies had German language "auxiliaries" named for Dr. Frederick Rauch (Diagnothian) and Dr. J. C. Friedrich Schiller (Goethean

German, or "Pennsylvania Dutch [Deutsch]." A retired industrial arts professor at Millersville University, Professor Kauffman has been a collector, author, and a philanthropist. In 1976, Professor Kauffman presented to the Rock Ford Foundation his splendid collection in the names of Zoe T. Kauffman, his

classics, Herr was able to serve three terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he was regarded as a competent legislator. From 1848 to 1878 Herr experienced his greatest literary output, with 22 volumes of poetry to his credit. Another local author was Dr. Samuel S. Haldeman, a literary

Chester County justice in 1713. From time to time the Pennsylvania Supreme Council and Assembly enacted laws and supplements thereto which provided additional justices of the peace and regulated their jurisdiction. An Act of the General Assembly of 22 May 1722 provided for organization of "Courts of

when selected as an assistant burgess. Mathias Jung, or Young, came to Pennsylvania from the Rhineland in 1732. Young, who was a merchant in Lancaster, died in 1749. John DeHuff, or DeHoff. became Lancaster's second chief burgess in 1744. Of Huguenot ancestry, DeHoff was a prosperous saddler. He was an