diversity was also a trait of the county; although it was primarily an agricultural community, producing over half of the tobacco crop of the state, the nineteeth century ushered in sev- eral industries, iron in particular, and Lancaster City, the county seat, was an important trade center. The city was the

, Md., each at least thirty miles distant.) According to Col. Mayo the first concrete was poured on June 12, 1929 and the bridge completed and accepted on September 28, 1930. Thus the bridge was built in less than sixteen months. Col. Mayo does nor, however, and would not be expected to include a

very many organizations. H. Frank Eshleman was the first editor of record in the late 1920s. In 1930 William F. Worner succeeded him, and in 1935 M. Luther Heisey became the Society's third editor, serving with uncommon distinction for twenty years. The change in column width from newspaper column to 4

of the county, born in Manor Township in 1815. At the time of the Boehm visit, Smith was an honored member of the Lancaster Bar, and had already served terms in the House and the Senate of the Pennsylvania Legislature. In 1873 he reentered politics and from that year until 1885 he repre- sented

thought it just great for I was included. Weren't my initials "M. E."? So it is fitting that "A Lancaster City Boy in the Gay Nineties" has been told by Ab Eyde with me. REFERENCES, NOTES, COMMENTS 1 John C. Fogle began manufacturing furniture in Christiana in 1866. In 1870 Joseph H. Fogle, father of

end of the century when, under the aegis of Josiah Strong, the American branch promoted national unity and social Christianity. The society emerged in 1846, how- ever, as an expression of transatlantic unity among American, Brit- ish, and continental evangelicals. It marked the culmination of two

Penn's Settlement on the River of Susquehannagh by A. Day Bradley Some nine years after the grant of Pennsylvania, William Penn published in London plans for the establishment of a settlement on the Susquehanna. A prospectus, Some Proposals for a Second Settle- ment in the Province of Pennsylvania

the early Mennonite Mussers of Lancaster, Lam- peter, Leacock and Conestoga Townships, as well as those of Brecknock, Hemp- field and Strasburg Townships, were related and stem from a 17th Century common ancestor in Switzerland, believed to have lived in Canton Berne.9 Then, too, Amos Milton Musser

to distribute favors to the party faith- ful, and an 1849 letter to Stevens from a Philadelphian who desired appointment as a United States Marshal shows the web of politics involved. The entire Whig delegation in the City [of Lancaster] and most of the County are united in a letter to Genl. Taylor

1742 to 1922, Lancaster's law enforcement agency was a political pawn of the various political parties who gained con- trol of the city government during the previously mentioned intervening years. This policy was changed on January 2, 1922 by Mayor Frank C. Musser, who believed that a person's