was made from a species of grass never before used for that purpose. Soon women, and a great number of children at the public school in the city, mastered the art of plaiting the straw. The grass from which the hat was made grew abundantly, at that time, in Lancaster county. Joel Lightner, Jr., was

attorney from 1839-1845 and negotiated for the loan that enabled Lancaster city to build the “water works” in the 1830s. Sarah Cox, her maternal grandmother, was a known philanthropist and for years helped to manage the Home for Friendless Children in Lancaster. Her sister, Ellen Fordney Franklin, was a

apprentices himself to Peter Reed saddler of the borough of Lancaster for five years and six months, 1 June 1798. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 1, Folder 16, June 2014. William W. Steele of Drumore Twp. indentures his ward Amos (of color) to Nicholas C. Boyd of Little Britain Twp. To learn