MARION WALLACE RENINGER MADAME FERREE Another biography of an outstanding pioneer woman in the history of Lan- caster County. The story of Mary Warenbauer Ferree recounts the wanderings of a woman of spirit and perseverance. Pursuing her object in life to find a place of freedom and opportunity

Letort holds the record as the first white woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as wife, mother and storekeeper." Lancaster, Pennsylvania MARION WALLACE RENINGER GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER, 1959 An annual feature by M. Luther Heisey reciting in a light vein (and not-so-light occasionally

Gibbons deserves a place on the roll of women of whom Lancaster County can be proud. �APPENDIX List of some of the men who helped in the Underground Railroad stations in Lancaster County William Wright Columbia Daniel Gibbons 1775-1853 Dr. Joseph Gibbons, Bird-in-Hand 1818-1883 Dr. J. K. Eshleman

Lancaster Post Office which was located in various homes and buildings during the period. When Robert Jenkins was a Congressman from Lancaster County he secured the appointment of Dr. George Moore as Postmaster of Lancaster, on April 1, 1797. It is said that Dr. Moore kept the Post Office in his drug store

of the founders of the old Donegal Presbyterian Church and built his home next to the meeting house in 1718. He was the first coroner in the county and was a member of the first jury drawn in Lancaster County. Being a prominent member of the church and one of its ruling elders, as well as belonging

son of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he became an inter- national figure and one of the world's great men of original achieve- ments. In 1878, J. W. Reigart writes, "Fulton's family asked Washing- ton Irving to write a biography of Fulton. After a tentative endeav- or, Irving gave up the undertaking

HISTORICAL NOTES on. the DISTAFF SIDE MARION WALLACE RENINGER HARRIET LANE The most famous of Lancaster County women was Harriet Lane, niece of President James Buchanan, who was born in Mercersburg, Penn- sylvania. She was the daughter of Jane Buchanan, James' favorite sister, and Elliot T. Lane