. �SECOND EDITOR WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Born 1888 in Lancaster County. Died 30 November 1944, aged 56. Mr. Worner was graduated from the local public schools, and pursued studies in business practice. He was employed for many years by the Stehli Silk Mills, rising through the ranks from bookkeeping clerk

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

November 1903. Bibliography Lancaster Daily Express, 26, 27, 29 September 1876. Nicolai, Richard R. Centennial Philadelphia.Bryn Mawr, Pa., Bryn Mawr Press, 1976. Pennsylvania Board of Centennial Managers. Pennsylvania and the Centennial Exposition: Com- prising the Preliminary and Final Reports of the

Tuesday, November 16, 1886, at 10 o'clock, a.m. in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, on South Queen Street, Lancaster, Pa., to consider the propriety of forming such a society. �14 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inasmuch as the weather was inclement only a few persons

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

cember 1918 that all Lancaster County breweries ceased making beer, Saturday midnight, 30 November 1918. One brewery was said to have had 10,000 barrels of beer on hand. Sales of beer were re­ quired to cease 1 July 1919. By this time, only five breweries were left, the Bube Brewery in Mount Joy, last

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

, there isn't much correlation of the number of churches with the extent of sin and vice. In 1885 Lancaster had 35 churches. Five years later there were 38 churches. Two more congregations appeared by 1895, and in 1900 Lancaster could boast 45 churches. This number increased to 51 by 1905, and soared to