alley and on the east by another fourteen foot alley." Hamilton asked no cash payment for these two choice lots in the very center of the town, only requiring that "the said Society pay �unto the said James Hamilton His Heirs & Assigns at the Town of Lancaster on the first day of May yearly hereafter

Lancaster Daily Express commented: The meeting will be a very important one and no doubt a very interest- ing one. The delegates are arriving and though there will hardly be so full an attendance as would have been the case but for the national difficulties yet there will be a strong delegation. We

. �Alexander Hood who introduced Douglass came to Lancaster in 1839 to be the editor of the "Lancaster Union". He continued as the owner and editor of that newspaper until 1842. Then having been admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1844, for the rest of his life until death in 1875 he practiced law and held

on Robert Blair Risk written by James I. Pyle may be found in Volume 56 of the Lancaster County Historical Society journals. "LUMBER FOR THE CENTENNIAL— Mr. C.A. Schaffner of Marietta has furnished within the past few weeks for the Centennial buildings twenty carloads of lumber to the order of Peters

in modern style exhibit a most gratifying progress. The support of four churches speaks well for the integrity of the people." - April 12, 1876 The cemetery mentioned in the above item is the Fairview Ceme- tery and from it may be obtained one of the most panoramic views in northern Lancaster County

, serving in that post for thirty two years. A man of scholarly attain- ments, he was one of the founders of the Lancaster County Historical Society. From 1918 to 1921 he held the office of president of the organi- zation. He contributed numerous papers on historical subjects, all of which were published in