for so long put up at miserable taverns and been among strangers and through such perils to meet so many familiar and kind friends. In the afternoon we journeyed on to my father's. My aged par- ents embraced me with joy, while I felt there is no place like home. Bishop Asbury and my father gave to

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

length and six feet, three inches across the wings and weighed a little over sixteen pounds." - April 1, 1876 The correct scientific name of the American or Whistling Swan is Olor columbianus. Dr. Herbert H. Beck writing in Klein's history of Lancaster County about this bird stated that usually these

were loudly applauded." "Dr. Thomas C. Porter of Lafayette College, Easton was then in- �troduced and read a historical sketch of the city and county of Lancas- ter. The learned speaker closed with a glowing tribute to our public schools and advancement in all material and intellectual things and was

extensive woodland which he owned, he cut much of it for poles and railroad ties, the latter for the use of railroads in Lancaster and Berks Counties. He was a long time active member of the Lancaster County Historical Society to which organization he gave many Indian artifacts and pottery from his

be one of turmoil. As the campaign drew toward its close, the number of political meet- ings in city and county increased. Just how intense and widespread was the interest will be seen from the list of such gatherings held in Lancaster County in 1860, which we have appended to this paper. Reading the

fell upon the ear like the soft ripple of the musical brook after the passing away of a thunder- storm." —March 14, 1870 From accounts that have come down through the years, Wen- dell Phillips was undoubtedly one of the nation's greatest orators, ranking with Webster and Everett. A graduate of Harvard

been equal altitudes of the sun and the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites. . . . Our legislature has been in session a great part of the winter but the republican interest has such a decided ascendency that party violence appears to have wholly subsided in that body. Governor McKean's firmness like the