in Harrisburg in 1827 attempted to solve the intra-party problem. The charcoal cold-blast furnaces which characterized Lan- caster County as the "Eighteenth Century Pittsburgh" continued to produce iron well into the nineteenth century despite the rising costs and increasing scarcity of forests from

school history classes, and co- ordinating the functions of historical groups and places throughout the county. It is not the purpose of this survey, however, to consider the effectiveness of county historical societies in fulfilling their real objectives. Each society knows its reasons for existence

Miller to the extent that he was elected a member of �the American Philosophical Society while he served the Cloisters. His per- sonal friends included the Penns, General Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and many prominent men of worldly significance. But this intellectual giant, this eighteenth century

, daughter of the Quaker, Joshua Davies of Ellicott Mills, Maryland. To obtain permission to marry Ruth, George became a Quaker. They were married on October 31, 1787, at Elkridge Meeting House. She was born in 1771 and died in 1860. Prior to 1800, George and his family moved to Fayette County, Pa. Their