%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An old time worthy / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 1729?-1798. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa

undoubtedly secured to him by reason of his residence for some years in Lancaster , nearly a century ago, and to his popularity in social circles here. Indeed, most of the earlier art works in this locality and other parts of New America were executed by Italians. In the "Lancaster Jour- nal," August 19, 1796

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

ter- ritory covered in the plan os the so- ciety. Lancaster county as now bounded stretches from the Octoraro on the southeast to the Conewago on the northwest; from the Brecknock sorest on the northeast to the slate hills of Peach Bottom on the Southwest. With- in these boundaries there have been

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Coroner's verdict in the Christiana Riot case : an interesting paper / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Gorsuch, Edward. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Christiana (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

century. The obliter- ation of the Court House of 1784 in Penn Square was vandalism, whicn we may hope will never be paralleled by the destruction of the present City Hall. Old Trinity stands conspicuous among all Lancaster edifices as a rare specimen of untouched archi- tectural grace and beauty. May the

Scotch-Irish patronage; but it is closely interwoven with the history of lower Lancaster county, and some day will be made the background for a stirring composition in the tardy but certain development of our imaginative literature. †An old-fashioned country doctor, living and practicing in a strictly