interests. He was an avid baseball fan and once tried out for the Major League Baltimore team. He too was an antique dealer of considerable scope, storing his wares in the old bank section of the hotel and later acquiring a nearby church in which to store the overflow. Some of the Fieles antiques went to

his career in law in 1801. He was a trustee of the Lancaster County Academy and Franklin College. Jenkins was president of the Farmers Bank in Lancaster. In 1845 he served as recorder of the Mayor"s Court. He was an active member of St. James"s Church, renting pew #51. William Jenkins died May 24

the barracks fell into disuse and disrepajr; by 1802 the land was back in the hands of the Hamilton family.1 6 Seven years later the United Methodist Church was erected on the same site, and was dedicated Dec. 17, 1809. Thus ended the era of imprisonment, and regardless of whether our borough was

contempt for the foreign passengers who could not speaktheirlanguage.JH Fortunately not all of the ocean voyages were disastrous. Johann Schlessmann, an immigrant from Nassig, on the ship, "Phoenix," out of �Portsmouth, arrived at Philadelphia on Nov. 2, 1752 and settled in Ger- mantown, Pa. A year later

0 r) �Sons of Rest: 1899-1971 By Melvern R. Evans, Jr. The Sons of Rest probably was the most unique organization in Lancaster history. It all started in 1899 when a group of aspiring young football players, many of them from the Lancaster Boys' High School, banded together and com- peted against

Hotel) which had been built in 1834 when he was still a child. He supervised the con- struction of the following buildings, but not in the order as listed here: Episcopal Church at Manheim, Town Hall at Marietta, Columbia High School, Inquirer Building, Eastern Market House, Duke Street Methodist Church