shared in the promotion of the Crematorium. Virtually every at- torney in Lancaster held stock in the institution. In the Janaury 1886 issue of The Modern Crematist, the local effort was described in these glowing terms: The cremation interest in Lancaster, Pa., where the first crematorium for general

, came into his life. The Lancaster entrepreneur, James Humes, was operating a cotton factory in 1826, and while visiting the Philadelphia firm of Nathan Sellers to obtain some wire cards, he happened to show the proprietor a sample of machine-made fillet or ribbon cards that made the teeth more firmly

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

Protectionism, Wages and Strikes in the Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County: 1840-1900 By John Ward Willson Loose This article has been excerpted from the author's master's thesis completed in 1967 • The Anthracite Iron Industry of Lancaster County, Pa.: 1840-1900. During much of the

, Price (Prees), Reese (Rhys), Richards, Russell, Simpson, Thomas, Williams, and Yocum. Notes: 1. Temin, op. cit., pp. 99-100. 2. James Aston, and Edward B. Story, Wrought Iron: Its Manufacture, Characteristics and Applications (Pittsburgh, Pa.: A.M. Byers Company, 1941), p. 10. See glossary. 3. Ibid., pp

furnaces in Lancaster." Four areas of the county held deposits that were exploited commercially: (1) Chikiswalungo Ridge, (2) Safe Harbor- Conestoga area, (3) Providence-Eden area, and (4) Caernarvon area. The first three groups of deposits were used largely to supply the anthracite furnaces of Lancaster

, Hugh(es), Humphrey, James, Jenkins, John(s), Jones, Lewis, Llewellyn, Lloyd, Meredith, Miles(Myles), Morgan, Morris, Morton, Norris, Owen(s), Parry, Powell, Prees(Prys, Price), Pugh, Rees(Rhys, Reese, Reece), Richard(s), Robert(s), Russell, Samuel(s), Thomas, Vaughn, William(s), and Wynne. The Welsh

Edward Barnholt and William Wittick: Lancaster County's Fearless Constables By John W. W. Loose Law enforcement in Pennsylvania prior to the establishment of the Pennsylvania State Police in 1905' was left to the county sheriffs, constables, and police departments of those municipalities that had

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the