the story of a fertile region in the southeast Piedmont section of Pennsylvania on the route which connects Philadelphia with the West. Its people have used this advantage to develop a prosperous and distinctive way of life. When, for a debt, William Penn was paid by Charles II with 46,000 square

director. Manny's diary is full of the home and its children. 1 His biography by S. S. Rathvon appears in Alexander Harris' Biograph- ical History of Lancaster County, 1872, pp. 346-56. 2 A year earlier she had lived on West Chestnut Street which accounts for Manny attending the West Ward School. �With Mrs

JOHN PEARSON'S DESCRIPTION OF LANCASTER AND COLUMBIA IN 1801 John Pearson believed that the "various abilities and different pursuits of men" should be exerted for "the information and instruction of the whole." He was one of the founders and ardent supporters of "the Friendly Society for diffusing