the entire period of the war he was an active participant in public affairs. He was a member of the Committee of Safety from its origin to the end of the war. In 1775, he was one of the twelve men selected as managers of a company "set on foot for making woollens, linens, and cot- ton," the election

no more inter- esting chapter in our local history than that which shall fully go into the details of the newspaper history of Lancaster county. There cannot be a more fruitful or interesting field. Has any one here any idea of the number of newspapers and other publications that have been born in

Baltimore, which was noted for its successful hotel proprietors, and there was no doubt that she had many of the elements that go into the making of a successful landlord. At any rate, her services were secured and she was installed in her new position in the summer of 1855. She was paid $700 for her

- ship was cut off from Chester county and erected into a township embracing all the portions west of the Octorara creek and along the eastern branches of the Conestoga. The list of the heads of families and single men is still to be seen in the Commissioners' office, and includes about 120 names. In the

from view. After these ceremonies, the exercises were adjourned to the historic church of Donegal, a few yards distant, where the Hon. Marriott Brosius, M. C., and a member of the Lancaster County Historical Society, delivered the elo- quent and valuable historical address herewith printed; a noble

cannot be put into the book and that something more important may have taken the place of what we sought, and that the history is better than we are willing to allow. Then, again, history is not a com- pleted thing. It is continuous, pro- gressive, and never will be finished. There is here and there a

subject is one for congratu- lation and pride. These facts prove most conclusively that the people of this city and county have been a read- ing community almost from the time of the first settlements here. The first German newspaper published in Penn- sylvania was Franklin's little venture in 1732, but

painter West. His son, John Joseph Henry, as a youth of seventeen years, accompanied Arnold's expedition to Canada, and wrote an excellent history of that ill-fated cam- paign. Later, on the death of Judge Atlee, he became Judge of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania, which he held from 1793