extensively used by all classes of people for chew- ing, snuffing, and smoking, notwithstanding strong opposition from church and state. Pope Urban VIII excommunicated all who smoked tobacco in church and Queen Elizabeth forbade its use in churches. In the year 1689 an ordinance was published in Transylvania

of the former Asbury Methodist Episcop al Church,on the farm of Mrs. Shaw, on the southern slope of the Gap hills. One- half mile south of its course are found the ruins of Lear's mills comprising flouring, sawing and clover mills. These mills were formerly Gest's mills. Con- tinuing south, near to

, and began business in Lititz early in the 1800's, and con- tinued in business for about twenty-five or thirty years, during which period he made a good many clocks, some of which are still about. He retired from �business in 1830 and died June 30, 1848, and is buried in Lititz, in the Moravian

-Presi- dent of the Columbia Bank. He was of German descent, born in Bethlehem, Pa., May 10, 1775, and began business in Lititz early in the 1800s and con- tinued in business for about twenty-five or thirty years, during which period he made a good many clocks, some of which are still about. He retired

. Industries--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1905/1906 Description: 295-303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.10 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading