the Susquehanna in that part of Lancaster county included in York county when erected as a county in 1749. Here he continued to reside until about 1761, when he died at an advanced age. George Smith, the oldest son, studied law in Lancaster, with Thomas Cookson, Esq., and was admitted to the Lancaster

dead, a' report was made that some Hessians were quartered here. Affidavit of Peter Shindel of Lancaster, sworn to in 1845, is in- formative and of great interest. It follows: "I was at the battle of Brandywine and belonged to the left division of the American Army. After the battle and defeat of the

state, and had been and was the center of much activity, being on the main route of travel westward through the Common- wealth. Lancaster was proposed to the Congress as the site for the capital of the United States in 1789, and a few years later, selected as the capital of Pennsylvania. Having given

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

Lancaster. He was our first representative in the Con- gress of the United States after the adoption of the Constitution, serving from 1791 to 1801. (Ferguson) LYTLE, ANDREW One of the members of the Society of Cincinnati who signed the roster at Lancaster, Aug. 1, 1783. Reference to his services are found

Society's first venture in original publications. The 1883 Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County and the 1875 Everts and Stewart Atlas of Lancaster County have been reprinted by the Society. A. Hunter Rineer's magnum opus, Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pa., published posthumously in

Manheim Township and Its Part in the Indian History of the County This society has often been favored by papers on the way in which vari- ous sections of what is now Lancaster county figured in the history of the dusky-skinned inhabitants who knew this section to be their home and hap- py hunting

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

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were

from 1789 to 1791, and was the first auditor of the United States treasury, where he served from July 16th, to November 27th, 1791. He died in Baltimore, March 27th, 1814. JAMES M. WALLACE. James M. Wallace was born in Hanover township, Lancaster County, now a part of Dauphin county, in 1750. He was a