James Regar and the Reverend Mr. Glessner read papers on "French Language," not exactly the intellectual fare that would "turn on" blacksmith apprentices. Dr. Washington Lemuel Atlee disclosed to his audience the mysteries of chemistry while Dr. George Kerfoot offered lectures on anatomy. In those days

. Ladies were wor- shipped and venerated—but in their place, which most definitely was not among the gentlemen as they talked earnestly of presidential, senatorial and gubernatorial candidates over cigars and brandy. The Colonel's grandfather, John Duffy, was born in Newtown, County Cunningham, Donegal

, was the most brilliant woman in the colonies, and had achieved recognition by the leading men of letters, philosophy, and science. Not long after his reelection in 1748 John Wright died, and lies buried in an unmarked grave in Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia.14 Thomas Edwards The next person to be

turn over to the new building fund of the Lancaster Free Public Library its personal property consisting of $30,798.84 in treasury bonds, bank stock and uninvested cash. At the completion of 25 years in the presidential chair, Dr. Beck decided it was time to retire. The January 1949 meeting of the

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

secretary to James Buchanan while Buchanan was Minister to England. Worner went into rapture in writing about this visit to Lancaster of Roosevelt, describing it in extravagant terms. But when he heard Roosevelt say his father was secretary to Buchanan, Worner immediately dashed off a letter to the