Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

1929 A. K. HOSTETTER, C. H. MARTIN, H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, HERBERT H. BECK. Collections in Aid of Sufferers from the Fire in Lancaster in 1811 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ATE in the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, or very early in the morning of the 2nd, the citizens of Lancaster borough were awakened

- tunate people of their property and left them, for the time, without homes or the means of acquiring sustenance. Immediately after the fire, a committee, consisting of promi- nent citizens of New Castle, was formed for the purpose of obtain- ing assistance from the benevolent in adjoining states. The Com

clothing for the relief of the sufferers were made in many cities and towns of the country. The legislature of Pennsylvania appropriated ten thousand dollars. A meeting of the citizens of Lancaster was held at the court house on Saturday evening, February 5th, 1820, for the purpose of securing relief for

, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's Contribution to Portsmouth in the Fire of 1802 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N

, who may be justly styled the Father of Internal Improvement of this country." The Great Fire of 1825 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Wednesday, October 19th, 1825, the city of Lancaster was visited by the most destructive fire, that, so far as known, had ever occurred in the town. It was caused by some

., July 25th, 1811. "Sir, "We have received yours of the 18th inst. enclosing a draft of James Houston, on the Bank of Pennsylvania, for $681.51, for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in this town. This unusual liberality, from a people suffering the same calamity with our- selves, calls forth

Lancaster's Contribution to Snow Hill in the Fire of 1834 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In The Lancaster Union of December 9th, 1834, appeared a communication, under the date of November 25th, which is as follows: "I have just emerged from a night of horrors. The center of the most valuable section of

hours. Several lives were lost, and two-thirds of the town were in ruins. A circular letter was received from the mayor of Petersburg, appealing for financial assistance for the sufferers by fire, and a meeting of citizens of Lancaster borough was held on Friday, August 4th, 1815, in response to an

foregoing, it is evident that collections were also made in the fall of 1796. Whether the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," was responsible for the good work, or whether some other agency accomplished the task, is not known. Lancaster's Contribution to Fayetteville in the Fire of 1831 By WILLIAM