marked the opening of the largest "money getting campaign" in the history of Lancaster up to that time. The daily papers of that day tell us that "nearly 300 of the real live wires of business and professional life in the city and county gathered at Hotel Brunswick to give the Lancaster General Hospital

in Vol. 28, page 6, L. C. H. S. See "Lodgings of Assemblymen in 1799" by H. Frank Eshleman. 13 From History of Lancaster County, edited by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, 1883. �Commonwealth. One is headed "Dec. 23, 1799, State of Pennsylvania to Wm. Hensel for Sundry Carpenter Work." The total of

state politics. President Judge of the Berks County Courts, he was projected into the political arena by his father-in-law, Joseph Heister, Revolutionary War veteran and former member of Congress and of both houses of the state assembly. Proving the foregone conclusion of the editor of the Lancaster

man was, in the respective community from which he was selected, a highly respected citizen. These then were the Republican electors for Pennsylvania. Charles Thomson, Montgomery County William Montgomery, Northumberland County Matthew Lawler, Philadelphia Robert McMullin, Philadelphia William Brooke

. . . . before the first Tuesday in December which will be in the year A. 1). One Thousand eight hundred and . . . Journal of the Senate February 24, 1802 While there was a determined effort on the part of some of the State leaders to take the capital away from Lancaster, there seemingly was not enough sentiment