and would lease the mill for five years at six per cent on the cost. 60 A number of the borough's merchants and leading citizens subscribed to the project, but a building was not constructed nor was the Susquehanna Iron Company organized until 1864. 6 1 Officers and directors of the company were

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

Gilmore Apple (1879-1898) VOLUME 96, NUMBER 2, 1994 51 3. The intellectuals, as represented by the college and seminary fac- ulties, those who trafficked in ideas, and the better educated professionals such as lawyers, physicians, some clergymen, and a small number of private citizens not afraid to harbor

grand a scale as did Colonel Duffy. His large Victorian mansion on Marietta's upper Market Street was the scene of gatherings not unlike those staged in more modern times by those redoubtable Washington hostesses, Mesdames Mesta and Cafritz. But there was a difference! Duffy's parties were male-centered

number of other proper persons, not fewer than three, nor more than four, shall be appointed and commissioned Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for each and every of the counties of this commonwealth. . . ." 1 The president judge was to be "learned in the law," that is he must have read law

Nyberg, a Swedish Lutheran pastor who subsequently adopted Moravian religious views and was deposed from the Lutheran Church, ending the two-year existence of St. James. The above list does not pretend to be all-inclusive and absolutely accu- rate: it is the best compilation the editor could assemble

elected constable. A convention in Lancaster brought to the city a large number of delegates. On the last day of the con- vention the offices of Henry K. Keller, grain broker, were robbed. In a short time Barnholt had taken four men into custody at the Penn- sylvania Railroad depot. Before the constable

, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Learning that your Honorable bodies contemplate passing an Act of Assembly to provide for the erection of a penitentiary for the confinement of criminals convicted in the central part of the State, we, the undersigned Com

years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were confirmed by the court of quarter sessions. In 1730 Andrew Hamilton and his son, James, began proceedings to acquire a large

appreciation for the quality of workmanship practiced by the old Pennsylvania German craftsmen. Henry will tell you that the "proper name" for these early weapons is "Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifles." The outcome of his study of the gun was a large volume — it has been called a definitive history — titled, The