. He had a for- tunate combination of qualities: Religious zeal, business enterprise and energy, administrative judgment and leadership. We like to think of John Wright, who named the county, started its first great business enterprise, governed its people and took active measures against encroachments

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

County Historical Society none has been in such general demand, from all over the country, as this. It was first read before the Historical Society on April 6, 1917. New paragraphs added to Mr. Magee's story are marked with this symbol-0, and were con- tributed by Dr. Herbert H. Beck, Mrs. Charles M

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

and Son on North Queen Street. The barrels were all made in the Leman's factory until about 1875, when he began to purchase these parts at Mohnsville, in lower Berks County. �Mr. Leman was well qualified as an overseer of his workmen, for he himself was an expert craftsman in all the branches of the

advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

considerable business from the county with its shops, which formed a quadrangle in the rear of the main building, and in which the trades of weaver, baker, nailsmith, hatter, chandler, carpenter, butcher, tailor and shoemaker were carried on. The Brethren's House also conducted a wool carding mill on Carter's