GRANDFATHERS' CLOCKS: THEIR MAKING AND THEIR MAKERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Whilst Lancaster county is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim special distinction as

REPORT ON THE TRUE CHARACTER, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FIRST REGULAR SETTLEMENT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. To the President and Members of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety: Your Committee, after having given a great deal of attention to the subject referred to them, have decided to make report upon

The Early Abolitionists of Lancaster County, In giving a history of the Abolition movement in Lancaster county,or else- where, the question seems first to arise, what is specially meant by the term "Abolitionist." The indiscrimin- ate manner in which it was used sixty years ago against every person

the earliest Lutheran congregations in the present limits of the county of Lancaster, and which was known as the Warwick Church, now known as Emmanuel's. We learn from existing documents of an agreement, or contract, of one Henrich Mock, of Warwick township, Lancaster county, and his wife, which sets

, married in Chester county, Elizabeth Devinny, in 1728. William Henry, their son, so well known to all Lancaster county histor- ians, moved from Chester County and married Ann wood, of Darby. The Store and Residence.—In the Recorder's Office Book XI, page '575, is a deed from Alexander Stedman to William

circumstance which accounts for his coming to Lancaster. While decorating a church in Erie, of which Rev. A. L. Bentze was pastor, he met Miss Mary Kiehl, of our city, who won the heart of the Bavarian artist, and their marriage followed, February 27, 1870, in Lancaster. They returned to Erie, that he might