early Pre sidential Elections in Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, participated in each of the Presidential Elections held since the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. It occupies first place in Pennsylvania in respect to the election of George

/ The Health of / Soldiers / Recommended to / The Consideration of the / Officers / Of the Army of the United / States" / By Benjamin Rush, M. D. / PubIished by Order of the Board / of War / Lancaster : Printed by John Dunlap / In Queen Street." �the columns of the Pennsylvania Packet. In the issue of

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World

outstanding characteristic of corporate development in the United States. This is especially true in the growth of public utilities. Practically all the many gas companies, as well as the electric lighting companies, which were formed in Lancaster County be- ginning with the gas industry in 1849, and the

and Addresses of the Lancaster vol. xxxvi (1932), p. 291. 52 Glass: et. al.; op. cit. 53 Minutes of Eastern Synod. 54 Minutes of Lebanon Classis, MS. in Library of the Reformed Church in the United States. Reformed Congregation," County Historical Society, of the Historical Society �for several years

were in circulation in Lancaster County. Spanish Milled Dollars were recognized as legal tender in the United States until 1857. Between 1800 and the passage of the National Banking Act in 1863, large amounts of currency were issued by private banks. This was issued without specific security, and the

Pennsylvania were made in What are now Bucks, Delaware, Philadelphia, and Chester counties. Here, in line with their deeply religious consciousness, they built meeting-houses and established meetings for Worship. Moving with the frontier, we find meetings being established in Lancaster County as early as 1724

was spoken on the stage. December, 1791, the McGrath Company of Comedians came to Lancaster. The company generally played in Virginia and Maryland and was just on a tour through Pennsylvania. Before coming to Lancaster they had played in Carlisle and York. The repertoire included the "Miser" by