the following statement: "To whom it may concern : "About 2 P. M., on February 22, 1861, I saw President-elect Abraham Lincoln at the Pennsylvania railroad station, Mt. Joy, Pa. He had made a short address at Lancaster and was en route to Harrisburg, where he addressed the Legislature. The telegraph

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

Record of Soldiers of Lancaster County in the War of 1812, and of Others Who Gave Service During the Period of 1784 -1815 By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS and ELEANORE J. FULTON. Note—The following comprehensive list of soldiers, who served their country as active participants in the War of

Material: Book Subject(s): Music--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Landisville (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: [3]-27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

movements of the Susquehannocks covering this period mainly through references from the Maryland Ar- chives and Jesuit Relations. As I did not have access to these, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the valuable work on Lancaster County Indian History recently pub- lished by H. Frank Eshleman for

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

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

most of these names were fathers and sons in continuous business. I shall confine the contents of this paper mainly to three heads: 1, Grandfathers' clocks; 2, to the makers of Lancaster county, and 3, deal more particularly with their own lives and ancestry, and not extensively with the family history

, of the United States Sen- ate, a Secretary of State, Minister to England, and the only President of the United States from Pennsylvania, and he, too, was a resident of Lancaster County. At that time we abused him because he didn't stop that great war, but we now concede that no man could have stopped