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

County Historical Society. 1 Lancaster Journal, Friday, January 16th, 1829. 2 In a letter, dated Lancaster, Pa., January 14th, 1829, and addressed to John Reynolds, editor of the Lancaster Journal, Major John Getz stated that he was present at the meeting of the mechanics of the city, but that he with

was made from a species of grass never before used for that purpose. Soon women, and a great number of children at the public school in the city, mastered the art of plaiting the straw. The grass from which the hat was made grew abundantly, at that time, in Lancaster county. Joel Lightner, Jr., was

MARSHALL'S DIARY IN ITS RELATION TO LANCASTER CITY AND COUNTY. Of the many names associated with the Revolutionary annals of Lancaster county, few deserve to be held in greater respect, or are better entitled to remembrance, than that of Chris- topher Marshall. At the same time I feel I am quite

, which had been es- tablished in 1799. The consolidated paper bore the name of Intelligencer and Jour- nal, and which, under the name of the Lancaster Intelligencer, is still published, and is, therefore, the oldest newspaper in the city or county. Since 1800 the newspap ers published here have been

THE WABANK HOUSE. Lancaster city enjoys almost un- equalled advantages of location in many respects. She sits on an ele- vated limestone ridge, which secures her the advantage of excellent health and satisfactory drainage. Along her eastern and southern borders winds one of the most beautiful

Population of Lancaster County in 1800 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE first official census of the United States was made in 1790, by order of Congress. Ten years later, another census was taken. In The Intel- ligencer and Weekly Advertiser of May 6th, 1801, appears the following: Agreeably to the

THE NEWSPAPERS OF LAN- CASTER COUNTY. In 1896 1 was induced to attempt the compilation of a bibliography of the newspapers, magazines and other pe- riodical issues of the press in the city of Lancaster from 1752 down to that time. Two or three previous attempts, and very successful ones, too, had