THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to

A WITHERED TWIG Dark Lantern Glimpses Into the Op- eration of Known Nothingism in Lancaster Sixty Years Ago. The following article was prepared by the late W. U. Hensel, Esq., and read before the Society on Feb- ruary 5, 1915: In these hysterical days, when emo- tionalism seems to be threatening

life in Lancaster, suggested by the passing of one of the most notable landmarks of house- hold life in our fair town. Notwithstanding the stability or Lancaster's population and the per- sistence in its citizenship of many families who have been of it for generations, there is a notable ab- sence of

AN ITALIAN ARTIST IN OLD LANCASTER. (LUIGI PERSICO-1820) With all of its many distinctions Lancaster has never been notable for lavish patronage of the fine arts. It has neither a public gallery nor pri- vate collection of famous and mer- itorious paintings or attractive sculp- ture. It would be

legal it may have been, technically, was evidently no more pleasant than it was profitable and popular. It seems that the party who accompanied Edward Gorsuch to Christiana—some of whom retreated rather ingloriously—were not animat- ed wholly by a spirit of philanthropy and patriotism. Thrift was their

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

Patterson-Andrews Genealogy About 1840 James Patterson An- drews, M. D., commenced a compila- tion of a genealogical register of the descendants of James and Mary (Montgomery) Patterson, founders of the Little Britain, Lancaster county, branch of the Patterson family, and also of the descendants of