interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

Judge W. W. Appel and T. Roberts Appel, Esq. The tablet reads : HENRY E. MUHLENBERG 1753 - - - 1815 A leader among the pioneer botanists of America lived here during his last 35 years when the stone building was the parsonage of Trinity Lutheran Church marked by the Lancaster County Historical Society

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

for the Presidency of the United States, and received the electoral vote of that state in 1836. He had a strong body of friends in Pennsylvania who desired him to come among them immediately after the adjournment of Congress. He was in Harrisburg, Pa., on the 19th of March, where the Legislature was

frontiersman, Colonel David Crockett, Democratic representative in the Congress of the United States from Tennessee. It is said that he won the election, not by making political speeches but by telling stories. The story of his dauntless courage and intrepidity of spirit, is known to every well-informed school

. David S. Kauffman, who formerly resided in Cumberland county, Pa. At the time of this visit, Mr. Kauffman was a Representative in the Congress of the United States from the Eastern Dis- trict of Texas; while Sam Houston was serving in the United States Senate from the Lone Star State. General Houston

legislature, United States senator, mayor of New York city and governor of the Empire State. Mr. Clinton was in Lancaster on Tuesday, August 9th, 1825. Where he spent the night is not known. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, August 12th, 1825, contains the following: "Governor Clinton was in this city on

War, he fought on the side of the English, but seems to have become reconciled, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's

the fact that George Washington and John Adams, when Presidents of the United States, were entertained at this old hostelry when they visited Lancaster borough. Der Americanische Staatsbothe and Lancaster Anzeigs Nachrichten for ' Wednesday, September 14, 1803, contained a brief account of Jerome Bona