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

David M. Sensenig A Famous Local Mathematician By C. H. MARTIN David M. Sensenig was born in 1840 at Goodville, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, son of Michael and Barbara Martin Sensenig. When a young man he worked on his father's farm. He was greatly interested in mathematics even as a boy

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of

connection with Lancaster either as trustees or patron (Benjamin Franklin) of old Franklin College. These pictures were secured through the United States Constitution Sesqui-Centennial Commission of Washington, D. C. THOMAS MIFFLIN. Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, courtesy Inde- pendence Hall Museum

whom he had six children, five sons and a daughter. One who knew her wrote of her as "a lady of great excellence and well fitted for the station she occupied." In 1769 a call was extended to John Woodhull jointly by the Leacock and Lancaster Presbyterian churches. The latter is the same as The First

Robert Fulton As An Artist By ELEANORE J. FULTON "A child of Lancaster, upon this land, Here was he born, by Conowingo's shade; Along these banks our youthful Fulton strayed, Dreaming of Art. Then Science touched his hand, Leading him onward, when, beneath her wand, Wonders appeared that now shall

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

MYSTERIOUS "BLACK JIM" MADISON By M. G. WEAVER FOR thirty years, from about 1832 to 1862, James Madison, better known and remembered as "Black Jim," was an eccentric and interesting character in Blue Ball, East Earl township, Lancaster county, Pa. His story that he was born a slave and subsequently