accurate record of who was sinning and where. A large collection of his notebooks rests in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. One must admire the persistence and tenacity of the Law and Order Society agents as they went about their unpopular business. With the arrival of Prohibition

the name of Juliana Library Company, and Lt. Gov. James Hamilton, whom we recognize as the founder of Lancaster, signed the articles of incor- poration. When John Penn came to Pennsylvania in December 1763, the Secretary of the Library Company extolled the virtues of libraries by stating, "Knowledge

JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1985. Janice C. stork, a Democrat and Lancaster's first female mayor, was elected in 1989, defeating the Rev. Mary Lou Broucht, Republican. Lancaster's borough and city officials conducted their business in at least six buildings during the past 250 years

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

lands. Edwards had a fair education and was very competent in Latin. Upon the creation of Lancaster County, he was named a justice of the peace. At the time Edwards was fifty-six years old. The same year he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, receiving the highest number of votes of the four

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and