Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A NUMBER of citizens of Lancaster met at the house of Wil- liam Cooper on Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1822. Dr. Samuel Fahnestock was appointed chairman, and Nathaniel Lightner secretary. The

the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a

Philadelphia on the night of March 4th, 1798. The next morning, President Adams informed Congress of their arrival; and two weeks later, sent to that body his startling message, declaring that the envoys could not succeed "on terms compatible with the safety, the honor, or the essential in- terests of the

collectively, as members of the Mechanics' Society of the City and County of Lancaster, to use their endeavors to promote the objects of the said institution." After Mr. Maxwell had presented the report, he delivered an admirable address, a part of which was as follows : "Our city has long been celebrated for

of Pennsylvania, by one of the visitors,—J. Bennett Nolan, Esq., member of the Reading bar and author of numerous books and pamphlets relating to the history of Berks county, and of Reading, its county seat. Thomas Mifflin was an extensive land- owner in the adjoining county of Berks and is regarded