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

T.ive in County Officers Lancaster City, You Elect in Addition to the :t: Mayor Councilmen :j: Treasurer and Tax Collector :t: Controller School Directors Local Election Boards Alderman Constables (1949) 1 4 years 4 4 years I staggered) 1 4 years 1 4 ye.ars 9 6 years 3 each odd yr. 3 2 years Elected in

the above note told me little. My continuing curiosity sent me to the Lancaster Library where I found Wallace Nutting's "Clock Book" and Eckhardt's "Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers." The former told me little that I did not already know but the latter had the following entry — "Godschalk, Jacob

LOCAL NAMES ON AMERICAN SHIPS When Samuel M. Sener wrote in our papers, vol. 3, p. 14, about the USS Lancaster, as the oldest ship in the United States Navy, no doubt he had in mind the active ships; for lying in port, one at Newport, Rhode Island, the other at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, were the

THE LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PREFATORY NOTE A complete history of the Lancaster General Hospital has not been written, due in part to the unfortunate fact that many of the early records are not extant. What is here presented is not even to be considered as a full and

SHORT HISTORY OF LANCASTER FIRE DEPARTMENT SINCE 1882 Early in the history of Lancaster we find references indicating that prominent citizens of the growing town were concerned over fire protection; among the first acts of the borough fathers following the incorporation of Lancaster as a borough in

manufacture of whetstones at least as early as the 1780's. Samuel Bond and Com- pany erected a whetstone manufactory in Lancaster about 1787. Their product, ad- vertised as "The American Whetstone," was produced from a bluish rock forma- tion found in the upper Susquehanna Valley. The favorable response of

Attorney to David Brookhard, a nephew, to make adjustments and collec- tions for the patent right. Brookhard was a descendant of the family which formerly resided in Lancaster or York County. A portion of the legal contract reads : "Know All Men by these presents, That whereas I the under- signed in the

Lancaster County in 1776. Dele- gate from Lancaster County to Constitutional Convention of 1787. Commissioned Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1791. Died at Lancaster, March 14, 1817. �THE LAW IN JUDGE JASPER YEATES'S LIBRARY Jasper Yeates' law library consists of one thousand and forty-three

CHOLERA IN LANCASTER AND COLUMBIA IN 1854 INTRODUCTION In this age of medical science "miracles," nearly every school child knows contagious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms such as "germs" or bac- teria. Indeed, some diseases are caused by substances too minute to be seen by the