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

Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and

Religious Life in Lancaster Borough By CAROLINE S. COLDREN In Collaboration With M. LUTHER HEISEY The earliest civic record of the Borough of Lancaster deals with a phase of the religious life of the community by regulating the activities of the in- habitants on the Sabbath day. It is a significant

flying beetle. Both were men of highest scholastic attainments, both were devout and devoted pastors of Lutheran parishes. The Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, was a botanist; the Rev. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer, an entomologist. There were times in those early days when Muhlenberg walked

How Lancaster Grew and What People Thought of It By M. LUTHER HEISEY Approaching the bi-centennial year of the establishing of Lancaster as a borough, it is well for us to turn in retrospective thought and consider what manner of town Lancaster was, how it grew, and what people visiting it for a

have been prominent in days gone by. It chanced to be so on July 2, 1912, when a centenary celebration was held at Manheim, Lancaster county, Pa., at which the memory of Major General Samuel Peter Heintzelman was the most conspicuous feature,and in whose honor a memorial volume was then published

M. LUTHER HEISEY THE LANE FAMILY OF LANCASTER Despite the overshadowing influence of James Buchanan, the Lane Family man- aged to chalk up a few points of its own, all of which are told here by the Venerable Bede of Lancaster. THE LANES COULD SAY, "DEAR UNCLE" With the destruction of two business