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

son of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he became an inter- national figure and one of the world's great men of original achieve- ments. In 1878, J. W. Reigart writes, "Fulton's family asked Washing- ton Irving to write a biography of Fulton. After a tentative endeav- or, Irving gave up the undertaking

MARION WALLACE RENINGER ANN MOORE & MARY DICKSON It may come as a pleasant surprise to many citizens of Lancaster who have urged that more women be appointed or elected to positions in local, state or national government, when they learn that two of the heads of our Lancaster postoffice, in the

Lancaster County had several stations most of them established by Quakers. Hannah Gibbons was the wife of the Quaker Daniel Gibbons. Their granddaughter, MARIANNA GIBBONS BRUBAKER, wrote this about the family, in a paper she presented on the subject, "The Underground Railroad," in the Lancaster County

HISTORICAL NOTES on. the DISTAFF SIDE MARION WALLACE RENINGER HARRIET LANE The most famous of Lancaster County women was Harriet Lane, niece of President James Buchanan, who was born in Mercersburg, Penn- sylvania. She was the daughter of Jane Buchanan, James' favorite sister, and Elliot T. Lane

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

properties, the Fiere family simply had to take flight into Germany. On leaving France, they were accompanied by a youth named Isaac Lefevre, all of whose family being Protestants, had been put to death. He carried with him one heirloom, the family Bible, which was preserved by his descendants of Lancaster

the history of Co- lumbia and the "Underground Railroad" in the days of the Fugitive Slave Act knows that a tunnel to the Wright Mansion would have been com- pletely unnecessary. Other popular stories include things that were supposed to have hap- pened in Lancaster but which did not actually occur