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

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

Judge W. W. Appel and T. Roberts Appel, Esq. The tablet reads : HENRY E. MUHLENBERG 1753 - - - 1815 A leader among the pioneer botanists of America lived here during his last 35 years when the stone building was the parsonage of Trinity Lutheran Church marked by the Lancaster County Historical Society

respect, your obedient ser- vants, "Jeremiah Nelson, "Jacob Stone, "Isaac Adams. Selectmen of Newburyport." "To Adam Reigart, Jr. Esq., Chief Burgess of the Borough of Lancaster, Pa." The "calamity" referred to in the foregoing letter occurred on the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, when a number of