"first county in the West of Pennsylvania" and it served as a model for the others to follow. Indeed, it became the mother county of York, Cumberland, Berks (part), Northumberland (part), and Dauphin counties. We are used to seeing Lebanon County included among our "daughters," but that is stretching

Pennsylvania in progress between 1834 and 1839. Later he studied law, practicing in the counties of Lancaster and York. But the promise of an active and brilliant career was frustrated by an attack of paralysis when he was but thirty-five years of age. The Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad, noted

would never be the same. An Editor's Footnote To Abbeville In 1717 William Penn granted Hans Brubaker and Christian Hershey 1000 acres by the Little Conestoga Creek in Lancaster County, PA. On the southern portion Christian Stoneman in 1755 or John Stoner in 1756 built a small home. It measured 20 by 17

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, 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 special distinction as