weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

street. He started business in about 1830 and the business was still being carried on in 1860, though it is doubtful if any grandfather clocks were made at that late date by them. WILLIAM FRASER—Unique among the old clockmakers of Lancaster county is the family of William Fraser, who started business in

Legislature, a Judge of our Courts, and later that masterful me- chanic and engineer, William Brown, engineer-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and likewise the present representative in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from this county, J. Hay Brown, formerly of the Bar of Lancaster county. Still

Ephrata, Pa., was one of the earliest and best- known clockmakers of Lancaster County, and his clocks are still prized by many families throughout the eastern part of Pennsylvania. He was born at Germantown, Pa., on August 9, 1728, and was the fifth child of John Gorgas and Psyche or Sophia Rittenhouse

location and boundaries of the Martin Chartier tract : together with the site of the original residence of Martin Chartier / by D. F. Magee, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Chartier, Martin, d. 1718. French Americans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

win its freedom and dedicate it forever to liberty. The County of Lancaster, as is well known, was set- tled in the main by three distinct classes of people. The great bulk of our population was the German and Dutch elements, who came in at differ- ent periods and under different lead- erships, but

and Sovereign, and issue only 'in the name " Pennsylvania." See Docket of Court Quarter Sessions Lancaster County No. 3, August and November terms, 1777. During his long service as Justice of the Peace and Judge from 1735 to 1780, he lived and made his home in Earl Township, on his farm deeded to him

: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 91-94 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

itself as the first narrow gauge railroad in Pennsylvania, by running its first five ton engine, the "Samuel Dickey" down over its newly laid and unballasted tracks out of Oxford, Chester County, to Hopewell Borough, three miles westward, and took on water from Hopewell run a tributary of the Octoraro on

followed the emigrant trail south to the Carolinas and west of the Ohio River Country. The Swiss emigrants who entered the wilderness of Pennsylvania, and settled where the City of Lancaster now stands, were riflemen, and Rupp in his history of Lancaster County at page seventy-four and five , mentions that