. He had a for- tunate combination of qualities: Religious zeal, business enterprise and energy, administrative judgment and leadership. We like to think of John Wright, who named the county, started its first great business enterprise, governed its people and took active measures against encroachments

ground Lime Street would resemble a race course with flying sleighs, jingling their strings of bells, and going like old Jehu. Often, on Saturday nights, an inebriated gentleman from the country would recklessly drive up North Queen Street to display the mettle of his mare, and just as regularly he would

, 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

110 to 119 Penna. Railroad Views 120 to 131 Conestoga River Views 132 Fulton Mill Explosion 133 Exploded Boiler The following stereoscopic views in possession of the Lancaster County Historical Society, were town, Pa., about 1880: View of Marietta from Chickies Rock View from Chickies Rock, looking

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected

, and an upright citizen. The modern novelist who would defame or vilify such a character and would picture him a common philanderer, to make a book salable, deserves the condemnation of such or- ganizations as the Lancaster County Historical Society, and more, deserves a reproof, even a legal one, from

� labor here and became the first missionary priest to establish a mission m this sectio�. He later became Superior of the Conewago Mission in Adams County. �60 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ISAAC WHITELOCK #315, 317, 318, etc. a Quaker, was born on November 12, 1712, and evidently came to Lan­

. & Perry., running on the river road to Port Deposit and Perry- ville, Maryland; and the Lanc. & Fred., running through Columbia and York to Frederick, Maryland. Man, never content with the progress he is making, found the speed of the express train "turtle-like" in comparison with the latest invention