, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's Contribution to Portsmouth in the Fire of 1802 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N

the people of his .race lived and labored. and of his duty to help them. In 1832 he purchased, at his own expense, a frame church building for use of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal congregation. He was the largest stockholder of his day in the Columbia bank; and, according to its rules

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

and a half, and stopped at Mr. Donley's Red Lion Hotel, where we breakfasted and dined, and found the house comfortable and well kept. "Columbia is twelve miles from Lancaster, and is situated on the eastern bank of the noble river Susquehanna ; it is a thriving and pretty town, and is rapidly

time in his career, he painted signs and banners ; he also made and gilded frames. On a silk banner painted by him for the Washington Fire Company of Louisville, Kentucky, is repre- sented Washington and his family on the portico at Mount Vernon, with the Potomac, dotted with sails, seen in the near

number of the rioters were arrested. AID GIVEN TO NORFOLK AND PORTS- MOUTH IN THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1855 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the summer of 1855, the scourge of yellow fever was epidemic in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia. Business was paralyzed, much suffering ensued from a lack of

Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The