Public Meeting to Restore Lancaster's Form of Government From a City to a Borough By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ANCASTER was incorporated as a borough May 1st, 1742, and enjoyed that form of government for nearly seventy-six years when, by an Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, dated March

College Hill in the 80's and 90's Memoirs of a Franklin and Marshall Faculty Daughter by Mary Belle Stahr Heller Preface My mother dictated these reminiscences at various periods dur- ing the last ten years of her life. Since her death in June, 1971 I have gone over them and assembled them into

Social Life in Lancaster Borough By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER It was Benjamin Rush writing in 1789 on the "Manners and Customs of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania," 1 who called attention to the fact that the description given by Tacitus of the German Village of the first cen- tury A.D

hospitable Kramphs who were active members of the small local congregation of the New Jerusalem. Mrs. Baker has the impression that he died very young. "Aunt Sally" was the widow of Frederic J. Kramph, tailor, 1 a man who deeply influenced the civic, educational and religious life of Lancaster from 1840

): Pennsylvania gazette. Newspapers--Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania--Social life and customs--To 1775. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 133-148 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the

--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--18th century. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1918 Description: 77-86 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 22

, "Maud S.," 2.08%, "Nancy Hanks," 2.04, "Lou Dillon," 1.58% and "Peter Manning," 1.56% (1922). The much honored gelding, "Peter Manning," the fastest trotter the world ever knew, is now in a stable within the original boundaries of Lancaster county, at Hanover, Pa. What a curious coincidence in the

Citizens of Lancaster Petition Legislature for a City Charter in 1798 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal of Tuesday, June 15th, 1841, announced that an old document—a petition for a char- ter to change Lancaster's form of government from that of a borough into a

entering into conversation at any time. His two sons, Ed and Billie, were two of my warm friends, and their sister, Henrietta, who is now Mrs. Deming, of Salem, Ohio, was a good friend of my sister. My earIiest recollection of life is in the house in the middle of the second square of South Queen Street

--Pennsylvania. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1910 Description: 293-300 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 14, no. 10 Call Number: 974.9 L245