grand tour of Pennsylvania and New York, the city and county of Lancaster, Pa., were honored by a visit from him. He left Washington, D. C., on Thursday, August 9th, 1849, and arrived in York, Pa., at one o'clock on the afternoon of the following day. He was met at the boundary line between Maryland and

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON IN LANCASTER: OBSERVANCE OF HIS DEATH By William Frederic Worner The county and city of Lancaster, Pa., were honored by a visit from General William Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, on Friday, October 7, 1836. He was a candidate, for the first time for thc Presidency

through Philadelphia and Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills, has returned by the way of Lancaster [Pennsylvania], to New York, and taken up hi= residence at the house near that city where Lord Courtenay lately dwelt This house, with handsomely improved grounds, is about nine or ten mile �from New York and

Muhlenberg, Jacob B. Amwake, Emanuel C. Reigart and Henry Carpenter. In pursuance of the call by the Hon. Christian Kieffer, mayor of the city, the citizens of Lancaster assembled in the old Court House in Penn Square on the evening of Thursday, October 28, 1852, for the purpose of expressing their sense of

Lancaster, which at that time was the capital of Pennsylvania. In a letter dated Pittsburg, February 22, 1810, and addressed to his friend and instructor Alexander Lawson, he refers to his sojourn in Lancaster in these words: 'From this first stage of my ornithological pilgrimage, I sit down, with pleasure

II. JEROME BONAPARTE IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner Jerome Bonaparte, youngest brother of Napoleon, was born in the town of Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica, November 15, 1784. He shared the fortunes of the Bonaparte family in the early years of the French Revo- lution. After receiving

and Mr. Kauffman were returning from a Democratic celebration in Carlisle, Pa., where they had addressed a large assemblage. The stop over afforded the citizens of Lancaster city and county an opportunity to meet these distinguished Democrats and extend to them a hearty welcome. On Thursday evening, a

., was, probably, an Englishman. He stopped over night in Lancaster in the spring of 1830. In volume 2, page 303, appears a brief reference to Lancaster county: "On the following day, the 30th May [1830], we dined at Harrisburg, the seat of legislation for Pennsylvania. . . . I proceeded to Lancaster