using high-sulphur content coke." Anthracite and charcoal iron, because they were purer and less brittle, were preferred by foundries. Much of this objection to coke pig iron was removed after 1865; by 1872 more than one- third of the pig iron manufactured in the United States was smelted in coke

. Schuleen, op. cit., p. 90. 24. Henry V. Poor, Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1885 (New York, N.Y.: H.V. and H.W. Poor, 1885), p. 267. 25. Annual Report of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, 1879-1880, op. cit., p. 44; 1880-1881, op. cit., p. 36; Schuleen, op. cit., p. 90. 26. The Columbia

, 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

destroyed. With his entrance into politics the absentee ownership of his properties nearly drove him into bankruptcy. Stevens was a poor businessman and he detested the details of finance. In 1833 Stevens was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Repre- sentatives on the Anti-masonic ticket. His hatred of

through in pipelines that form a corridor under Salisbury Township. The shoe was on the other foot in the Civil War period when Lancaster Countians joined in the speculative rage for oil. In the 1864-1865 period no less than eight different companies were formed locally to drill wells, refine oil, and

of the Civil War after which he attend- ed Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University). Following his graduation he entered the famed Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his degree of doctor of medicine in 1870. He practiced for some years in Rohrerstown and

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by

Cycles: 1865-1897 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The Uni- versity of North Carolina Press, 1959), p. 92. 58. Lancaster Daily Express, 14 October, 1865. 59. Schuleen, op. cit., p. 89; Fels, op. cit., pp. 96-98; supra, pp. 85-90. 60. United States, Ninth Census, "Wealth and Industry" (Washington, D.C., 1872) III, 725

impossible to find anyone in the young United States who could fix the instrument. The engineer was amused when he was told young Getz could fix it, but when the native son convinced him he could do the task, he permitted him to try. Getz quickly rebuilt the surveying instrument "better than new" and the