ALEXANDER WILSON IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner The name of Alexander Wilson, pioneer ornithologist in America, should be familiar to every well-informed school boy in the land; yet doubtedless many of our local high school students who turn to Wilson's books for in- formation on birds, do

Governor Clinton in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER E WITT CLINTON, statesman, was born in Orange county, New York, March 2nd, 1769; and died in Albany, New York, on February 11th, 1828. He served his native state in sev- eral offices throughout his life, having been a member of the state

Baron Riedesel in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER BARON Friederich Adolphus Riedesel (the cockneys in the British army pronounced it Red-hazel) was born in Lauter- bach, in Rhinehesse, June 3rd, 1738. At an early age he was sent to Frischborn, a village near Lauterbach, and placed under the

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

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

of flagons,—one, a pure German piece ; the others, modeled after it by a German-American pewterer whose successive and ingenious copies of the original show progressively wider departures from the authentic German form with which he began. FARMING IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1864 By WILLIAM FREDERIC

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

The Jackson Celebration in Lancaster in 1827 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Monday, July 2nd, 1827, a number of General Andrew Jack- son's friends in Lancaster, decided to celebrate the anniver- sary of American Independence, and appointed a committee to effect that purpose.l The committee

.] Porter, in a letter to James Buchanan, Esq., which was received from Philadelphia by mail on Wednesday evening, requested a sentiment to be given in his name. Unfor- tunately, the letter was received too late for Mr. Buchanan to com- ply with his wishes. 1 Lancaster Journal. Friday, July 6th, 1827

those who have not yet subscribed, and may desire to become subscribers to such a beneficial establishment, will please to apply to the subscriber. "John Erben." Three years later, the Lancaster Journal of Monday, October 19th, 1818, contained an advertisement in which Mr. Erben offered the Lancaster