Lancaster 187o: Celebrated People Lectured in the City One Hundred Years Ago. A Compilation by George L. Heiges One hundred years ago the leaders in our nation had but one means apart from the medium of the press to contact their fellow citizens and present their views; and that was the American

Federal and State money made it very difficult to adjust the accounts."20 One of the sons of William and Ann Henry was John Joseph Henry, who from 1793 to his death in 1811 was Judge of the Second Judicial District composed of the counties of Chester, Lancaster, York and Dauphin. It seems that during his

Mombert's history of the county concerning this Court House that "it was sufficient in size and conveniences, not only to accommodate the County Court and the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth, but was for many years the Capitol of Pennsylvania, and the sessions of the legislature were held therein from

Society of Pennsylvania. 14 Toto caelo (L.), diametrically opposite. 15 Samuel Wright was a grandson of John Wright, Sr. He laid out the town of Columbia and named it. �County Commissioner, came a communication together with a copy of the Record of the Court of Quarter Sessions, February term, 1804. By

Chain) consists of 100 links, each link measuring 7.92 inches. �It seems necessary to call attention to one sentence in the foregoing Latrobe report, namely that which refers to a map which he had prepared and which accompanied the report. It is of record that the map as well as the report was presented