bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

confidant on many matters personal, political and legal. Lancas- ter county has not produced his equal ; died full of years and of honors, in his 92nd year. The last year he lived with his step- daughter, at 341/2 South Duke street, Lancaster, Pa., where he died, at three A. M., Friday, December 12

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

permanently useful, than those of many whose career was more brilliant." 4. BAKER, JACOB LANCASTER JOURNAL, Friday, May 31st, 1822. "Died, on Friday, the 17th inst., Mr. Jacob Baker, of Leacock township. "The deceased was an old and respectable inhabitant of this county; and during the Revolutionary War

Thomas McKean Inaugurated Governor of Penn- sylvania in the Borough of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N the autumn of 1799, Thomas McKean, a signer of the immor- .1. tal Declaration of Independence, was elected governor of Penn- sylvania. The Republicans of the borough and county of Lan

John Yungling. Matthias Zahm. Although the resolutions permitted the receiving of depre- ciated paper at a discount, the committee earnestly recommended to the citizens of Lancaster city and county to receive no bank paper whatever west of Chambersburg, Pa., as the greater part of it could not be

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

West Chestnut and North Prince streets, was presented to The Lancaster County Historical Society by Mr. C. H. Martin, an in- vited guest. On the inside cover of this program appears a list of the postmasters and postmistresses who have served Lancaster since 1790. The list, obtained from the Postoffice

subscription for the relief of his family." George B. Porter, George Bryan, Henry Carpenter, Jonas Dor- wart, John Bachman, Jacob Long, Philip Heitshu, Leonard Eich- holtz and F. D. Hubley, were appointed a committee for that pur- pose.' Thursday, July 13th, 1826, was observed in Lancaster as a day of public