United States Congress from 1789 to the present / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legislators--United States. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1865-1950. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930

full in the Philadelphia newspapers. 30 Hensel was also vice-president of the Pennsylvania Society of New York.31 The obligations which a citizen has to his community and to his church were not neglected by Hensel. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster

(Pa.)--Politics and government--To 1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1900-1901. Description: [36]-51 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 2 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.5 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

also the capital of Pennsylvania from the summer of 1799 until the autumn of 1812. Carefully preserved among the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society is an interesting old handbill, published in 1809 by the then well- known printer of Lancaster, William Greer. It is headed, "A List of

the seat of Govern- ment and ready to perform the duties of Electors. "Mr. Boyd informed the meeting, that he had been well assured that the state of the health of Wiiliam Montgomery did not admit of his attendance, at this time at the seat of Government. "On motion, Agreed unanimously that Timothy

his lot was cast, Each hero struggled through a past Of dubious fears, but, at the last, All vacillation And tremor being thrust aside, Purpose was resolute, to abide Whatever upshot should betide The new-fledged nation. xv. Fifty-six names were written there, In all the world's long history, where

before you; and I looking only at what I take to be the express will of the legislature on the subject, have refused to pass, or to put my name to them. This being the state of things, it has become proper for me to declare more at large to you, to whom alone I hold myself accountable for my conduct, the

- monwealth against the continuance of the speaking of German which threat- ened to make of the settlement a German colony? In 1741 the German and Swiss Mennonites of Lancaster County were represented to the provincial government of Pennsylvania as being " determined not to obey the lawful authority of

. Berntheizel of Columbia according to a Lancaster newspaper item of February 16, 1925. In this release the Senator �recalled that he introduced a bill in the State Senate in 1921 provid- ing that a new bridge be built, the counties of Lancaster and York each to pay one-third of the cost and the remaining one

Report of the Committee on the W. U. Hensel Tablet Unveiling The committee which had charge of the exercises attendant upon the unveiling and presentation of a tablet to Hotel Brunswick, the gift of the late Hon. W. U. Hensel, one of the vice presidents of the Society, pre- sents the following