ANTHONY WAYNE IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. General Anthony Wayne, who had won distinction in several battles of the Revolution and had displayed remarkable skill and courage in the capture of Stony Point on the Hudson, was ordered to command the first detachment of Pennsylvania troops

FISHER AMES IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner Fisher Ames, American statesman, orator and political writer, the youngest son of Nathaniel Ames, a physician, was born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758. He was a precocious scholar and was graduated from Harvard college at the early age of sixteen

JOHN MARSHALL IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner John Marshall, one of the greatest among the great Virginians of his day and generation, won fame in a field in which there is but little of dramatic incident to relate,—that of the Supreme Court of the United States, of which, for more than

LANCASTER COUNTY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY By William Frederic Worner. In 1727 or 28, when Benjamin Franklin was about twenty-two years of age, he influenced a number of well-informed men in Philadelphia to unite with with him in forming a club to be named the "Junto." He states

Lancaster in 1776 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MONG the rare books in the private library of the Hon. Charles I. Landis, President Judge of the Courts of Lancaster county and a for- mer president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, is one en- titled, "The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774

erty. The inquiry arises whether this was the location of The Sign of the Two Highlandmen? Very likely it was, though Ross is named in 1779 as a merchant." Mr. Cresswell writes: "This [Lancaster] is a large town, but the situation is disagreeable between two hills, several good buildings and some

LETTERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner It was shortly after the defeat of the American army at Brandywine, in September, 1777, that the Continental Congress, as noble a legislative body as the world had ever seen, adjourned from Independence Hall in Philadelphia

the verdure of the forests, the murmur of the water, and the melody of birds all conspired to fill my mind with vast and elevated conceptions." On leaving Lancaster, Mr. Ashe proceeded toward Harrisburg. He state: that he did not stop there. Matthew Clarkson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER M