Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

advanced pupils and taught music. These teachers were succeeded by the Misses Anna and Susan Girvin. Then, for a short while, the State used the building as a home for soldiers' orphan children. That was in December, 1864. The accommodations being inadequate, they were removed to Paradise, and then to

, are Philosophy, Know- ledge and Religion peculiarly indebted to particular associations of men, entered into for the important purposes of promoting and advancing them." John Shippen, obviously, must have been a member of the Strasburg Scientific Society from the time of its inception, or else he was