The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

passage apply to John Hemphill, 42 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa." Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0N Friday, July 19th, 1822, a number of ladies met in the Sun- day-school house of Saint James's Protestant Episcopal church for the purpose of forming

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �

Society of Lancaster. Charity organization. Poor--Services for--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County --History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930 Description: [11]-18 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 1 Call Number: 974.9 L245

German and English papers of the city of Lancaster. They were as follows : "The members of this association have formed themselves into a society for the purpose of providing a fund for the support of the widow of any deceased member. "The association shall consist of none but such as are citizens of

John Yungling. Matthias Zahm. Although the resolutions permitted the receiving of depre- ciated paper at a discount, the committee earnestly recommended to the citizens of Lancaster city and county to receive no bank paper whatever west of Chambersburg, Pa., as the greater part of it could not be

will immediately abolish the embargo and restriction upon trade and prevent the calamities of war falling upon our common country." It is also interesting to note that a meeting of the inhabitants of Manheim, Lancaster county, Pa., was held on Tuesday, June 16th, 1812, for the purpose of declaring

in the borough and county of Lancaster, in order to encourage industry, frugality and American manufactures, formed an association known as "The Lancaster County Society for Pro- moting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts." Mr. F. A. Muhlenberg was chosen president. �The objects of the

as injurious to the general interest of the community in which the wrong is done. 4. "Resolved, That the committee appointed at the last meet- ing be a committee to prepare articles of association and rules for the government of the Mechanics' Society of the City and County of Lancaster, and make