pretty sure there was only one other public library in our county at that date—the old Juliana, of Lancas- ter, at least seventy-five years older, named in honor of Juliana Penn. You have had both a reading people and an industrious people. You have had a fine financial �record, especially pre-eminent in

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

. Pre-eminent above all his contemporaries of the territory which is now Lancaster county, he stands as the chief spirit and genius in our county's creation, and as the princi- pal directing mind and shaping hand of its early years. The public career of John Wright began in 1718 as Justice of the Peace