, after a proper number of petitions were received, would appoint a commission of three prominent persons to go out and investigate the extent of inconvenience, the sincerity of the petitioners, and then make their report to the Court. In 1840 one hundred and thirty citizens of East Donegal Township

Carpenter fam- ily. They had three daughters: 11 Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, p. 549. �a. Mary, who married C. C. Carpenter. b. Sarah, who married John C.Hubley. c. Catherine, who married Dr. Robert Miller Bolenius (1847-1922) in 1875. Dr. Bolenius was a son of Major Adolphus William

Baptist as many persons fail to realize. Dr. Julius F. Sachse, for many years prior to his death in 1919, was librarian and museum curator of the R. W. Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. In this capacity the learned doctor had at his dis- posal unlimited references to mystical

. Provost, quoted by J. B. Pearse,' Lan- caster County had in 1833 five charcoal furnaces, which produced 5000 tons of pig iron ; two rolling mills which rolled 500 tons of bar iron each ; and eleven forges which hammered out 2350 tons of blooms. Actually, only three furnaces and one rolling mill were in

A SURVEY OF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES IN PENNSYLVANIA Few problems cause more concern among county historical society officers than those of finance, and particularly, the matter of sufficient income. This is not surprising in view of the emphasis placed on the virtue of the fatted treasury. A