traveling through Europe, Mexico and the United States. He died in New York City on September 27, 1899, and the body was interred in Woodward Hill Cemetery, in Lancaster. (Bates 2: 1101; New Era, Sept. 30, 1899.) Captain Edward Edgerly was born September 13, 1837, a descendent of a prominent New Hampshire

Count Zinzendorf's native country, and as guests of the Historical Society, Dr. Hans Luther, the German ambassador to the United States, directed the two German envoys, Dr. J. von Rantzau, vice consul in New York city, and Arno Mowitz, consul in Philadelphia, to attend the exercises. The Society was

by clay holes.” 19 William Willis, skillful bricklayer and builder, erected the walls of York County’s first courthouse between the years 1754-56, and lived to see his masterpiece of Georgian colonial architecture become the capitol of the United States during the period from September, 1777, to June

, 1829. The act limited the capital stock to $60,000, in shares of $50 each, and authorized the councils of the city to subscribe "for such number of shares as they saw fit, not to exceed one thousand." · The commissioners appointed were George L. Mayer, Robert Evans, John Longnecker, Henry Keffer and

. In an entry for June 27, 1744, we read of informal festivities, wherein is noted that a young Indian danced a jig with Andrew Hamilton, town clerk of Philadelphia, in a most surprising manner. "The younger persons raised their jollity by dancing in the Indian dress, and after their manner." James

High.Constable; and George Sanderson to be Town-Clerk: To continue Burgesses, Assistants, High-Constable and Town-Clerk until the fifteenth Day of September which will be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-four, and from thence until others shall be duly elected or appointed in their

, and three generations of them were engaged in the business in Lancaster City, and specimens of their handicraft are found in many of our modern homes. To them, also, belongs the distinc- tion of having made the town clock that for many years told the time for our city and, no doubt, marked its flight

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and the New England states. "He located a considerable mileage of the difficult mountain division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was regarded as one of the greatest locating civil engineers of the country; his minor work covered a large area of our own country," writes