A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

, 1963), 1-22, 33-39; Philip S. Klein, "Early Lancaster County Politics (1814-1829)," Pennsylvania History, III (April, 1936), 98-114. 8. John Edward McNeal, "The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County: 1828-1843," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIX (Easter, 1965), 57-117. 9. W. U

The Effort to Build a State Penitentiary at Lancaster A Bit of Local History Recently the Lancaster County Historical Society purchased at a public sale several documents for a modest sum. One of the documents was a "memori- al" sent to the Pennsylvania legislature by the Commissioners of Lancaster

"nice" recognized for their existence. Peter Bett's paper on Lancaster Law and Order So- ciety (vol. 69) revealed to readers of the Journalthat Lancaster had a somewhat seamy past, a fact one would never imagine from the usual treatment of the celestial city in Pennsylvania Dutchland! That the tolerant

describe garbage furnaces for cities, hotels and families and cremation furnaces for human bodies. He also manufactured antiseptic cuspidors. The Lancaster Crematorium and Funeral Reform Society published a monthly journal, The Modern Crematist, said to be the first of its kind in the nation. The 16-page

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

statutes then current should be incorporated into Pennsylvania statutes. This library, now at the Lancaster County Historical Society, is considered the fourth most important library of its kind in the nation. Lancaster Countians not only have been readers; they have been authors. The first history of the