Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family

PAPERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. XLVI 1942 Nos. 2 and 3 By M. LUTHER HEISEY The leading residents of Lancaster, when it was incorporated into a borough, were those who were nominated and appointed in the charter as burgesses and assistants, and a few others. This charter

owned by John H. Musselman, of Lancaster, Pa. �Capitol of the State at Sacramento was adorned with his life-size portrait, and so while his whole purpose in coming to California was to advance his personal fortune, it is as a public and political figure, whose influence is being recognized more and more

the ice on the Conestoga, which * For 1936, the city of Reading, Pa., reports an average daily consump- tion of 12,900,000 gallons. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LANCASTER 17 .was, at some points: upstream, frozen to the bottom. Such a con- dition was not known to have existed previously, but by noon time the

...7wo-hundredth Anniveriary of Lancasters incorporation -As a &rough By M. LUTHER HEISEY The first of May — a day usually associated with disorders and demon- strations in the cities of Europe; the First of May—here a day of rejoicing and rededication for the citizens of Lancaster, this year made

. This Thomas McGovern also was a builder of railroads and canals. Mrs. Reilly was first married to John McManus, and their second child, Thomas, was a railroad contractor, and resided in Lancaster. JACOB B. ROHRER was born at Middletown, Pa., August 31, 1857, son of the late Major Jeremiah and Mary

M. LUTHER HEISEY THE LANE FAMILY OF LANCASTER Despite the overshadowing influence of James Buchanan, the Lane Family man- aged to chalk up a few points of its own, all of which are told here by the Venerable Bede of Lancaster. THE LANES COULD SAY, "DEAR UNCLE" With the destruction of two business

were taught gratuitously, and its doors were open to all. By an Act of Assembly it was required that the laws should be read in the schools." William Penn in the Conestoga Valley On the tablet erected in Manor Township by the Lancaster County His- torical Society, marking the site of Conestoga