to Baltimore, becoming a member of the Maryland Legislature. His mathematical pursuits brought him to the notice of such men as Rit- tenhouse, Franklin and Washington. In 1789 the latter commissioned him to survey the boundary between Penn- sylvania and New York. It was his �survey that gave us a

went to New Berlin, Union County, Pa., the town next in import- ance to the county seat. He was with Stevens in the Pennsylvania Consti- tutional Convention os 1836, and, like him, voted to give the negro the electoral franchise. He died in 1841, but his sons, Jesse and Louis, in civic and military

neglect to do, viz., he kept a diary for thirty- three years. The books for three years have been lost. It is too early to measure the extent of this loss. From the copious records of the other thirty years, in 1893, Jacob Cox Parsons, of New York, his great-grandson, pub- lished a volume of extracts

%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Evans, Samuel, Title: A centennial event / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slaymaker family. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc

constituency, were not of local birth or ancestry. Reynolds, alone of our citizens of the first file in fame's roll, was both born and buried in his own county. Fulton and Ramsay, "to the manner born," early escaped their na- tive environment and achieved na- tional fame outside this locality; but we have a

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

citizens of the town. This included the pastors of the (First) Reformed and (Trinity) Lutheran churches, and from them a joint answer was received. The origi- nal manuscript is in possession of D. McN. Stauffer, C. E., B. S., of New York, and by him we are permitted to publish this copy of it, which has

- prietor, danced the minuet to "wilder music" than even the Indians made; and the Jewesses, "not long since come from New York," "made a tolerable ap- pearance" and the "large and elegant supper" was served in such manner "that the female dancers first ate," I can well understand why my chronicler and