Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and

. Towamencin Twp., Montgomery County and Philadelphia. — A famous pre-Revolutionary clockmaker, contemporary of David Rittenhouse, a native of Towamencin Twp. (then in Phila. County but now Mont- gomery). His earlier clocks bear the title "Jacob Godschalk, Towamencin." In the late 1760's Jacob Godschalk moved

difficulty would be ironed out, another would appear. Settlers had scarcely begun to pour into Lancaster County on the east side of the Susquehanna, before rumors were heard that Maryland intended to seize the land on the west side as far north as the mouth of the Codorus Creek. Those on the east side, many