as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

, John Wright, a Quaker, and Thomas Edwards, a Welsh settler, over the court held in Lancaster at Postlewaite's Tavern, in 1730, says Samuel Evans in a paper in Volume IV of the Lancaster Historical Society's Journal. From the time Andrew Galbraith was elected to the General Assembly, the Pres- byterian

ANN LETORT The second in a series on noteworthy women in Lancaster County history, this article on Ann Letort by Marian Wallace Reninger brings new attention to the courage and versatility of pio- neer women. Ann Letort was a French Huguenot who came to America with her husband James in 1686. They

, inspired by a woodcut he saw in Rollin's Ancient History in William Henry's library. John Galt, in his life of Benjamin West, writes "that among those most helpful to West in his early career was William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania" and I think it is quite probably that Ann Wood Henry, with her own

become State printer, and Dr. Thomas W. Veazey established the Anti-Masonic Herald at New Holland, Lancas- ter County; it was the initial party newspaper to make its appearance in Pennsylvania. 20 This was the first of many Antimasonic newspapers to ap- pear in Pennsylvania; in fact by April, 1831, there

buildings. This site was cleared to permit a shopping and park- ing facility to be constructed. Opposite this site on East King Street are the Lancaster County National Bank and the old Stern Store, both being demolished to make way for a "modern" bank building. Both structures are now gone. New Ern Photo