bright spot to re- pair to — and that was the "public soup house," maintained by the city government in the Grant Street police station, where pails of hot soup were ladled out to the needy. The ordinary workingman of the earlier days received low wages and as a rule lived near his place of employment

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

The Camerons of Donegal BY HERBERT H. BECK In the Government of the United States no family of Penn- sylvania has played so prominent a part as the Camerons. For a father, Simon Cameron, and son, James Donald Cameron, were both Senators of Congress, with a total of forty years of service in the

appearance at the Lancaster County Hospital, and subsequently at the Almshouse. As an account of its invasion may throw some light upon the etiology (aetiology, the study of cause of disease) of this myterious scourge, I beg leave to give a brief history of it, I �had charge of these institutions in the

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

County business and politics. We know for certain that in May 1715, James Logan made a journey to Conestoga and Paxtang. 9 At that time the account book of 1712-19 shows that Martin Chartier and Peter Bezaillion were James Logan's chief fur traders. In 1718 Logan still referred to Peter Bezaillion as "my

, 76. 17 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 12, 19, 1829. �great portion of Chester county will now depend upon Lancaster for shingles, boards, scantling, staves and heading, hoop-poles, etc . . . ."18 This editor's prophecy pertaining to Chester County soon became a reality. 19 During a little over one

, 131-139. 103 Lancaster County Taxables, 1800. See Chapter II for other agricultural tool manufactures. 104 Lancaster Borough Assessment, 1814. 105 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 19, 1829. It is difsicult to picture a wooden jackscrew, and the possibility that this was an iron tool must be recognized