- fessor Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County His- torical Society. Following the invocation by the Rev. Robert S. Miller, pastor of the Unitarian Church of Our Father, Mayor James H. Ross introduced Mr. Garvin, the donor, who, in turn, presented Vernon K. Newswanger, of Lancaster and

fortune. George Hamilton was one of the commissioners appointed to organize Clarion county34 when it was formed out of parts of Armstrong and Venango counties by act of March 11, 1839. James Hamilton died on April 4, 1815. The Lancaster Journal dated April 22 of that year contained the following item