Wise in English. 3 A large Republican meeting at the Wigwam. Eloquent addresses were delivered by W. W. Brown and George Eichelberger. 4 A Wide Awake parade in Lancaster followed by meetings in various wards and a return parade to the Wigwam. 4 Friends of Lincoln, Hamlin and Curtin raised a pole in

this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has

Pennsylvanians, Benjamin Franklin, was the promoter and proprietor of the first printing establishment in the city of Lancaster. His name was not known in the matter at the time, and only came to light a few years ago through the discovery of certain legal documents drawn up at the time. Franklin had been doing

, the petitions for the laying out of roads in the Road Dock- et of the Court of Quarter sessions between 1740 and 1775 ask for these conveniences to enable the people to more easily reach "mill and market." But horses were not numerous in these early days, and mere bridle paths were sufficient for a

activity, whose exploits were set down in the annals of their time. Among the famous women of Lancaster County one notes the name of Ann Scott Galbraith, wife of Andrew Gal- braith. She was the first woman political worker in the history of Lan- caster County. In the year 1731 she actually made possible

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

ANN WOOD HENRY, 1732-1798 Another sketch of a noteworthy pioneer woman in Lancaster is included in her series by Marian W. Reninger. Setting aside her own story on Ann Henry, Mrs. Reninger presents as fitting tribute to her friend and compatriot, the late Adelaide Hall, the unpublished last work of

, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from