--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 247-250 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

pillar, on the west side of said bridge and on the west side of Cones- toga Creek," etc. This and the former records referred to fix, therefore, the time of its construction as be- tween June 17, 1788, and May, 1789. All things have their day of use- fulness and new requirements render changes from time

Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

became of her husband is not known. This Mrs. Fessler claimed she was a sister of John Jacob Astor, the New York millionaire. There also resided in Bainbridge at the same time Yorick Sherer, who died shortly prior to 1878. He came from Baden, and claimed that he knew Mr. Astor in the old country, as well

General Horace A. Por- ter, of military and diplomatic fame, Gen. Grant's chief of staff and one- time Ambassador to France; he re- sides in New York. Another was the famous Judge William A. Porter, of the Philadelphia Bench and Bar; his son, William W. Porter, was one of the first Judges of the Superior