site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

; stoves of greatly increased efficiency; and mechanized materials and stock handling." The use of Connellsville coke about 1865 in western Pennsylvania promoted the growth of the coke pig iron industry in that region after many years of latency, owing to the inferior quality of iron produced in furnaces

Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1949), p. 65. 13. Robert D. Billinger, Pennsylvania's Coal Industry (Pennsylvania History Studies No. 6. Gettysburg, Pa.: The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1954), p. 37. 14. Pearce, op. cit., p. 227; Reeves, Abbott and Company also owned the Phoenix Iron Works. 15. Temin

with other Czechs fled with them, the father, mother, Augustine and three sisters took refuge about Zittau in Saxony. Augustine seems to have been the baby of this exiled family. Though recorded elsewhere as having been born in 1605, Herrman in his will, written in 1684, gives his age as sixty-three