Society featured a contested election for president. Dr. George Leonard Heiges, vice president of the Society, had been slated by the nominating committee; and Christian Hess Martin, �28 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY treasurer of the Society for many years, had been nominated from the

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

excluded from this study. Each society was promised that their replies would be published but that no society other than the Lancaster County Historical Society would he identified by name despite the public nature of the facts requested. We are ex- tremely grateful for the prompt and informative replies

to extend to you the compliments of the Lancaster County Historical Society this evening as we gather to honor those Pennsylvanians who have left their indelible mark upon our commonwealth and nation. Announcement in the local press that Congressman Thaddeus Stevens was to be inducted into the

. cit., p. 54. 20. The Columbia Spy. 8 March 1856. 21. The Lancaster Intelligencer, 18 February 1855. 22. Lawrence Van Horn, "The Old Buck Cannon," Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, LXIV (Autumn, 1960), 219-220; United States Patent Office, Patent No. 13,984, 25 December 1855. �23