. First Mention of Lancaster County Names. In the first half of the fourteenth century Germany and Austria were the theatre or field of slaughter, and here Lancaster county names first appear. In 1340 Conrad Hager was killed, and also an Eckart or Eck- hard; in 1360 a John de Landuno (whether Landis or

monument to all of the peoples of Lancaster county and especially to the citizens of Conestoga township, and through you. Harry Fehl, to the family of George Fehl, we deliver its care and protection, and to his descendants and to all future possessors of the Postle- thwaite farm we deliver it in charge

Who Was Jacob Hibshman, the Con- gressman from Lancaster County? John Gerhard Hibshman was a native of Switzerland, and came to this country in 1732, at the age of 19 years. Five years later, returning to his native land for his wife, he sailed on the ship St. Andrew, September 24, 1737, from

The Early Settlement and History of Little Britain Township, Including Fulton Township The first survey and grant of lands in Lancaster county was in this town- ship, Little Britain, which included in its early settlement the territory now called Fulton township, and consti- tutes the extreme

. John Whitehill, a Congressman. The son of James Whitehill, the pioneer, was born December 11, 1729, in Salisbury township, Lancaster �county. He married August 13, 1755, Ann Sanderson. John Whitehill was a zealous patriot, and was prominent in serving on committees at the time of the Revolution

The Public Career of John Wright, Esq. John Wright, Esq., of Columbia, on the Susquehanna, was the acknowl- edged and unquestioned "father" or Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By unanimous consensus of authoritative opinion, and by common consent, this name and title belong to him and his memory

and Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical So- ciety, Vol. VI, No. 1, page 22.) At the close of the Revolutionary War John Miller became the proprie- tor and "Mine Host" of the General Wayne Hotel on the west side of North Queen street, between King and Orange streets. This hostelry was

. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Elser Family. Mills and mill-work--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 51-59 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16

Lancaster county. He seems to have bounded into lead- ership at once—James Hamilton. Of the four members elected to Assembly, he received the highest vote by far. There was another new figure—John Emerson, of Blue Rock. He was next highest in the vote. Galbraith stood third and John Wright scarcely se

Early Lancaster Artists JOHN JAY LIBHART Merchant, Druggist, Judge and Artist. The ancestors of John Jay Libhart emigrated to America about the year 1728, and settled in York county, then on the frontier of Pennsylvania civili- zation, in or near the village of Hel- lam. His father, Henry Liebhart