. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

. The "Circular of Terms" for the Beck Family School for Boys is a case in point. �Moravian Family School for a Limited number of Boys, Abraham R. Beck, Principal. Litiz [sic], Lancaster County, Pa. Terms. "For tuition and all domestic expenses, $300 a year, to be paid half-yearly in advance, in

.) English Scholar's Library, Birming- ham, England, 1884. Talbot, George 1684 "Conference Between Col. George Talbot of Maryland and William Penn," in Narratives of Early Maryland. Clayton C. Hall (ed). Scribner's N. Y. 1910, pip. 437-448. Wallace, Paul A. W. 1961 Indians in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania

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

both sides of the Susquehanna river, which was considered their territory up to this time. From the annals of the Susquehannocks and other Lancaster, Pa. In- dians, by H. Frank Eshleman, 1909, in the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety Papers, we read: "Prior to 1600—but how long before is not known

parents who came from Coleraine, Ireland to settle in Chester County, Pennsylvania. At the age of 15 he was sent to Lancaster to be apprenticed to Matthew Roesser, at that time probably the leading gun- smith in the town. Henry's mechanical ability made him an ideal appren- tice and probably he served the

1828, political Antimasonry came alive in Lancaster County. There began to appear in this newspaper announcements of local Antimasonic meetings in many areas of the county, such as New Holland, Paradise, Mount Joy, Bart Township and Manheitn. 23 These meetings generally consisted of the election of

Preservation&Razingss FORMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING "MODERNIZED" Members of the Lancaster County Historical Society were shocked recently when the owner of its former home at 307 North Duke Street decided to •set a large "picture" window into the front wall in place of the two white-shuttered