the Cloister Cemetery. Jacob Gorgas was the great-grandfather of General William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army who by doing away with yellow fever in the Canal Zone made possible the building of the Panama Canal. The Walter Moyer Collection of books pertaining to the early history

information, seems to be lost. All we know is that he amassed a fortune. A biographer wrote that he "was a successful merchant of Lan- caster city, and the wealthiest of our deceased citizens." 2 We do not wish �to infer that money was his idol, his sole interest; but even the local news- papers had scant

of machinery few possess. Boyhood and Youth In the Pennsylvania Historical Association's quarterly journal, Pennsylvania History, Vol. XXXII, January, 1965, we learn: The birthplace of Robert Fulton, six miles south of Quarryville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was designated a National His