:. Mechanics' Coun- cillor. The Scott Bugle. The Daily Free Press, (Liquor organ.) 1856. The Daily Express. The Pathfinder. 1858. Lancaster Union. The Temperance Advocate. 1859. The Church Advocate. The Morn- ing Herald. (Daily). 1860. The Educational Record. The Con- . stitution. 1862. The Daily inquirer

that may be, there is no record that �FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF BAILEY'S ALMANAC, FOR 1779. (By courtesy of The North American newspaper.) �the term had even been applied to Washington before, in print, and to Francis Bailey, a Lancaster printer, and a Lancaster county man, must be awarded the credit

then present from this county not one is living to-day. The Lancaster Bar also attended this banquet, but theirs was a case of so many dollars per plate. lt is a fact deserving of record that not one of the more than forty members of the Medical Society whose names are on record as having at- tended

others. James Hamilton laid out the town of Lancaster at the request of the proprietaries, but there is no record of a petition direct from the citizens for establishing a borough. Perhaps Hamilton's influence shows here. In and about Lancaster, as early as 1730, we find some licensed, at a tax of twenty

fine clocks, in number somewhat over one hun- dred, and they made some four or five that struck the quarter hour with the chime, which feature is rather unique in the grandfather clocks, though a few others of this type are known to have been made by other of our Lancaster makers. * JACOB GORGAS, of

and Lancaster and York County Record, June 23, 1831. 1831. The Palladium, Bethania. The Olive Branch, Elizabethtown. 1832. The Columbia Hive, Columbia. 1833. Marietta Advocate, Marietta. 1840. The Plaindealer, Col. Forney (Revived). The Columbian, Columbia. The Ant, Marietta. 1841. The Orb, Marietta

proud of the part Lancaster has played in the history of the Republic. We are proud of the record of our citizens in all the wars in which our nation has engaged. We look with pride on the records of our sons and daughters who were prominent in local, state and national affairs. We look forward with

-Reynolds Relief Fund for the needy of Lancaster City. LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION We record the following letters of recommendation to show the high esteem in which Patrick McEvoy was held in his community. Lancaster, Penna. April 11/57 My dear Sir I take the liberty, and I do so with much pleasure, know

after annually paid. When the Council of Zion Lutheran Church some twelve years ago resolved to revive the ancient custom of rose payments, which for more than a century and a quarter had fallen into disuse, the event received wide notice and well-deserved credit, and praise was awarded to the man whose

the Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions in 1780; Burgess from 1766 to 1775, and Treasurer of the county from 1777 to 1786. Was one of the incorporators of the Juliana Li- brary. Nowhere was there a more ardent or more trusted patriot. Was a member of the Assembly in 1776 and in 1777 a member of the