The Mathiot Family of Lancaster County BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE One may wonder why a family named Mathiot is significant enough to merit research beyond the private confines of genealogy. Although the Mathiot family is observing its two hundredth anniversary in America and Lancaster County this

printed by the Clarion Steam Printing House, New Holland, Pa. 1 March 1884. Insert 2 1. Business card from Trout & Shank, Manufacturers of shirts, 22 North Queen St., Lancaster. 2. Promotional memo book from Trivers Clothes, 24 N. Queen St., Lancaster. 1921 calendar inside and list of other Trivers

research primarily on the pistol has brought to light much of local human interest regarding the Grubb Family of Cornwall. In order for one to understand the background of the persons who pos- sibly might have owned the flintlock pistol, it would be helpful to study the following chart which shows the

StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

LOCAL NAMES ON AMERICAN SHIPS When Samuel M. Sener wrote in our papers, vol. 3, p. 14, about the USS Lancaster, as the oldest ship in the United States Navy, no doubt he had in mind the active ships; for lying in port, one at Newport, Rhode Island, the other at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, were the

The Camerons of Donegal BY HERBERT H. BECK In the Government of the United States no family of Penn- sylvania has played so prominent a part as the Camerons. For a father, Simon Cameron, and son, James Donald Cameron, were both Senators of Congress, with a total of forty years of service in the

A LANCASTER COUNTY BUSINESSMAN AND THE WAR OF 1812 The following is part of a story about a Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania family — and its home — from the time of settlement in 1710 until the present. This particular section covers the war years, 1812-15. It cen- ters around the then head of the