Buchanan Made a Mason in Lodge No. 43 December 11, 1816 Worshipful Master 1822-1823 President of the United States 1857-1861 Born, Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa. April 23, 1791 Died, Wheatland, Lancaster Co., Pa. June 1, 1868. In the winter of 1816-17, Hon. James Buchanan, then but twenty-five years of

Manor Townships Address Letter to Governor McKean By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N March 11th, 1800, a number of Mennonites who resided in Donegal and Manor townships, Lancaster county, Pa., ad- dressed a communication to Thomas McKean, governor of Pennsylvania, which was as follows : "It is not our custom

THE EARLIEST KNOWN ADVERTISEMENT OF A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner In Vol. 7, No. 2, of the Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society, appears a very illuminating paper on the subject of "Early Lancas- ter Playbills and Playhouses." In this monograph

. Neff, Jr., C. H. Lefever; Warwick township, Peter Felies, Col. George P. Geyer; Washing- ton borough, Dr. A. Bitner, D. Urban. In the Lancaster Intelligencer of Tuesday, August 22nd, 1848, appeared a partial list of contributions, as follows : Collected in North-west Ward, Lancaster city, " " Southwest

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

, "Maud S.," 2.08%, "Nancy Hanks," 2.04, "Lou Dillon," 1.58% and "Peter Manning," 1.56% (1922). The much honored gelding, "Peter Manning," the fastest trotter the world ever knew, is now in a stable within the original boundaries of Lancaster county, at Hanover, Pa. What a curious coincidence in the

1929 A. K. HOSTETTER, C. H. MARTIN, H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, HERBERT H. BECK. Collections in Aid of Sufferers from the Fire in Lancaster in 1811 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ATE in the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, or very early in the morning of the 2nd, the citizens of Lancaster borough were awakened

GEORGE WASHINGTON IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. In the "Proceedings" of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, for December, 1922, is a description of George Washington's visit to Lancaster borough in 1791, at which time he witnessed the celebra- tion of the

beginning of the present month. A recollection of the abominable and ruinous scenes of gambling, profanity and drunkenness, exhibited at the last races would, no doubt, induce a sufficient number of virtuous citizens in the borough and county of Lancaster to step forward and aid the magistrates in enforcing