President and no nominee since Buchanan. This led to Wheatland and Lancaster, and some one proposed that a stop-over be made in Lancaster, and the first formal ratification meeting of the Presidential campaign be held there. A telegram, sent from Altoona, in- spired a most numerous and enthu- siastic

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

Robert Jenkins in Congress / by Miss Martha B. Clark. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Whitehill, John, 1729-1805. Whitehill, James, 1762-1822. Whitehill, Robert, 1735-1813. Jenkins, Robert, 1769-1848. Legislators--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster

never visited it without taking with him a spray of the sweet brier which grew there. He, like James Buchanan, never married. After leaving Lancaster, Dr. Muh- lenberg went to New York City, where he founded the Church of the Holy Communion and St. Luke's Hospital. The Sisterhood of the Holy Commun- ion

, president of the Farm- ers' (now Trust Company) Bank, and who built "Wheatland," the residence in after years of James Buchanan, the fifteenth President of the United States. Robert Jenkins,the iron-master, was of scholarly attainments and a gen- tleman of the old school. The writer has in his possession a

offices in Lancaster agreeably to the Plan thereof exhibited to the Commissioners & lodged with them,—erect the same and bore the holes at and for the sum of £ 25. 0. 0.—the Commiss. �promise to find the labor hecessary for said Business,—and the said Nathaniel Hantsh is to be accountable to the

, November 10, 1775, he declares that "William Hamilton need not grudge the money his son cost him. His coolness and resolution surpassed his years." He alludes to Maj. James Hamilton, of the Second Pa. Continental line, from Eastern Lancaster county, who moved to South Carolina late in 1778, and there be

. John Hubley, Esq., a member of the Lancaster Bar, was called to preside, and forcibly stated the object of the meeting. Rev. Joseph Clarkson, rector of St. James' Episcopal Church, was chosen secretary. A motion to organize "The Lancaster County �Auxiliary Bible Society" was unani- mously adopted. A

REPORT OF COMMITTER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT CELE- BRATION OF 200TH ANNIVER- SARY OF FIRST PERMANENT WHITE SETTLEMENT WITHIN BORDERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY: Laucaster, Pa., Oct. 7, 1910. To the President and Members of the Lancaster Couuty Historical So- ciety: Your committee, appointed to con- duct a

Britain (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) Fulton (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) Lancaster County (Pa.)--History--17th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 138-151 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 17, no

THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to