large crowd, which he addressed from the balcony of the Cadwell House, Lancaster, February 22, 1861, have all answered the final call, with possibly only two exceptions, of which later mention will be made, as have nearly all of the many thousands who saw the funeral train pass through Lancaster County

place. William A. Wallace, of East Earl township, Lancaster county, was born near the Cedar Grove Presbyterian church, and was graduated in 1836 in medicine from Jefferson Medical College. Shortly thereafter he went to Springfield, Illinois, where he soon became a leading physician ; and conducted a

. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

general, that he has removed to the corner of South Duke and Vine streets, in the city of Lancaster, opposite Mr. Luke Brown's coach manu- factory and near the German Lutheran school house, where he has prepared suitable bathing rooms, on his newly-invented plan of using cold or warm baths, whereby the

"her friends and pitcher." The company retired to the dinner table, where in reply to a toast from Captain Findlay in favor of "our friends and pitcher," Mr. J. J. Snyder, of Baltimore, "made some very neat and eloquent remarks delivered in a very handsome manner." He concluded by toasting "Lancaster

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

over to work it out. This man Rinne owned and operated a mill near Roland's Church, Lancaster County. He was one of the Committee of Observation, the purpose of which was to seek out those persons who maintained a traffic in goods of foreign origin to the detriment of local products. Early in the

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In