, Persico might be pardoned for getting homesick for the dear old town. Persico in Philadelphia. Thenceforth Persico evidently lived for a time in Philadelphia,from which city he writes later to Mr. Champ- neys, sending thence his brother to Lancaster with this cordial introduc- tion: "Philadelphia, 16th, A

by the proud memorial raised within those venerable walls to a boy, who, for a brief period of our Revolutionary history, was a resident, if pot a citizen, of Lancaster and dwelt across the street from my own home. In an Illustrious Group. I forgot for a time the monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and

Orange was the irrepar- able loss of what would nave been an ideal home for this Society. With the demolition of the old • The records indicate that Jasper Yeates, at the time of his death. owned both the southwest and northwest cor- ners of South Queen and West Mifflin streets. He purchased the

papers, private memoranda and public annals, old fur- niture and older china, land-marks and sign-boards—a thousand tokens are to be noted on the road to a fitting, true and complete history os Lancaster county. This work, when finished, must be a literary and historical achievement, without a taint of

property, was born in Phil- adelphia in 1729, and died there In 1806. His father, Edward IV., had been a merchant, furrier, Councilman and Mayor of Philadelphia, before he be- came Prothonotary,Recorder and Reg- ister in Lancaster county,which places he held variously from 1745 until after the Declaration

. Ellmaker, Elias E. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1908 Description: []175]-183 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 12, no. 5 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.12 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading