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

, 76. 17 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 12, 19, 1829. �great portion of Chester county will now depend upon Lancaster for shingles, boards, scantling, staves and heading, hoop-poles, etc . . . ."18 This editor's prophecy pertaining to Chester County soon became a reality. 19 During a little over one

, 131-139. 103 Lancaster County Taxables, 1800. See Chapter II for other agricultural tool manufactures. 104 Lancaster Borough Assessment, 1814. 105 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 19, 1829. It is difsicult to picture a wooden jackscrew, and the possibility that this was an iron tool must be recognized

- ter. Lotteries, although freely employed for religious, educational, and internal improvement puposes, were practically never used to raise manufacturing capital in Lancaster County during the period of this study. Stiegel's flint glass lottery, the only lottery organized and authorized on behalf of a

acres.1 On the south the county is bounded by the State of Maryland, on the east by Chester County, on the northeast by Berks County, on the northwest by Lebanon and Dauphin counties, and on the southwest by York County from which it is separated by the Susquehanna River. The region enjoys a highly

his "Travels through the Interior Parts of America in a Series of Letters" (London, 1789), left interesting and valuable observations on Lancaster and Lancaster County ; but Ensign Hughes lived in the town for eighteen months, during which time he noted his life and the life about him. There is no

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best