and County supporting the government in its attitude toward France / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Adams, John, 1735-1826. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--1775-1865. France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1928

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

West- cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. 2, p. 864.) So far as I am, at pres- ent, able to discover, it was seventy years later before a representative of this "king of beasts" was seen in Lancaster. We know that in 1797 an African lion was placed on exhibition here, although this may not have been

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

AN OLD CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER. By William Frederic Worner. Mr. Herbert W. Hartman, president of Follmer, Clogg & Company, man- ufacturers of fine umbrellas, has presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society an old newspaper, published in New London, Conn., on Friday, April 10th, 1778. It

recruits arrived here; they also are marching west (on the march in a westerly direction)." This same issue of the paper contains the following: "Pittsburgh. On Thursday, Major General Anthony Wayne, commander- in-chief of the army of the United States, arrived here. On his entry, he was given a salute by

BISHOP BOWMAN'S POEM* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In view of the fact that Americans are celebrating, during the I year 1932, the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of General George Washington, the "Father of his Country," especial interest attaches to the publication of a bit of poetry written

, however, that his name does not appear in a compendious work entitled: "Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783," compiled by F. B. Heitman and published in 1893 in Washington, D. C. �at the same time, withdrawn from us

inscription, which is as follows, was prepared by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Clifford Gray Twombly : "In honor of members of St. James' church who served Amer- ica during the time of the Revolution : George Ross, signer of the Declaration of Independence: Major General Edward Hand, friend and companion in arms