statutes then current should be incorporated into Pennsylvania statutes. This library, now at the Lancaster County Historical Society, is considered the fourth most important library of its kind in the nation. Lancaster Countians not only have been readers; they have been authors. The first history of the

Fahnestock Charles S. Foltz, treas., Penn Iron Works Joseph U. Fritchey, salesman Jacob Gamber, tobacco packer Milton Thomas Garvin, merchant William L. Gill, photographer Frank Griest, clerk to County Commissioners William W. Griest, reporter, Lancaster Inquirer newspaper D.H. Grube Dr. J. Max Hark, pastor

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

Tinkerers, Mechanics and Inventors of Lancaster County By John Ward Willson Loose A few caveats are in order. My essay is not an "in depth" study of each and every tinkerer, mechanic and inventor that ever worked in Lancaster County, nor does it attempt to single out every person who contributed in

century and early twentieth century. The city had 8,417 persons in 1840 but ten years later 12,369 were counted by the census taker. In 1900 the city population had soared to 41,459. In any community the increase of population generally results in a rise in crime and its attendant evils, sin �106 JOURNAL

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

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

, Jr., "The Geology of Lancaster County," Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pa.: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1880) pp- 196-198. 2 Ibid, pp. 198-203. 3 B. L. Miller, "Lead and Zinc Ores of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Topo- graphical and Geological Survey

Lancaster County. In 1840, a corrected account by the same authority lists eleven forges, three furnaces and one rolling mill. The furnaces were the Colebrook, Elizabeth and Mount Hope ; the rolling mill was the Coleman works at Martic. The market for pig iron was quite unstable, especially in early 1837

, 1963), 1-22, 33-39; Philip S. Klein, "Early Lancaster County Politics (1814-1829)," Pennsylvania History, III (April, 1936), 98-114. 8. John Edward McNeal, "The Antimasonic Party in Lancaster County: 1828-1843," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIX (Easter, 1965), 57-117. 9. W. U

revenge on the governor. In 1745 Wright was chosen speaker of the Assembly. His age prevented him from attending many sessions by this time. The life of John Wright was significant in the early history of Pennsylvania and Lancaster County, but it ought not obscure the fact that Wright's daughter, Susannah

The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: Rolling Mills 1850-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose I. General Desciption Although rolling mills had been used early in the nineteenth century for reducing the thickness of bar iron produced at the forges, rolling mills as a separate industry were