Three Generations of Architects and Builders: The Evans Family By Melvern Evans, Jr. John Hantch Evans, reputed to be Lancaster's first architect, and also a contractor, was born July 27, 1824, the eldest son of Jacob Evans and Anna Maria Hantch, better known as "Polly". Jacob, a jackscrew maker

direction just to hear him say "Good morning." When the Judge was born his father was a Montgomery County, Mary- land, lawyer but the family shortly settled in Centre County. On October 13, 1893 William Huestis Keller married Anna Dickey, daughter of Oliver J. Dickey, prominent law partner of Thaddeus

were imme- diately interested for personal reasons hesitated to publish all the particulars. Appleton's "Cyclopaedia of American Biography" (1887) briefly says that "the story is told in several ways," but that "it is generally accepted that the Empress was taken to the residence of Dr. Thomas W. Evans

F. Kachel, Elvin Kahle, William Karer, Henry Kauffman, Isaac Kauffman, J. R. Keller, John Keller, Kauffman Kepler, Aaron Conrad Kiehl, John C. Kirkpatrick, William Kirsch, John Kitch, Davis Kline, G. M. Kreckovich, Michael Kuhns, John Kurtz, George Landis, D. B. Landis, F. F. Landis, A. B. Landis

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

, Jacob Govett, William Hansson, Joseph Harrison, John Hayes, Jacob Hovey, Roswell Jones, J. Jones, J. C. Keller, John Lewis, Edward Martin, George McNeely, William T. Miller, Samuel Morris, William Mullins, Edward Pinkerton, William C. Reigart, Adam Slaymaker, Henry Edwin Steinman, George Michael Strenge

Philip Wager to Adam Reigart, Jr. Wager is consoling Reigart on the recent loss of a loved one and lets him know to expect a visit of consolation from a cousin. Other family members would like to visit as well but the weather keeps them home. 7 February 1806. Letter from Philip Wager to Adam Reigart, Jr