Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

1929 A. K. HOSTETTER, C. H. MARTIN, H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, HERBERT H. BECK. Collections in Aid of Sufferers from the Fire in Lancaster in 1811 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER L ATE in the night of Friday, March 1st, 1811, or very early in the morning of the 2nd, the citizens of Lancaster borough were awakened

- tunate people of their property and left them, for the time, without homes or the means of acquiring sustenance. Immediately after the fire, a committee, consisting of promi- nent citizens of New Castle, was formed for the purpose of obtain- ing assistance from the benevolent in adjoining states. The Com

clothing for the relief of the sufferers were made in many cities and towns of the country. The legislature of Pennsylvania appropriated ten thousand dollars. A meeting of the citizens of Lancaster was held at the court house on Saturday evening, February 5th, 1820, for the purpose of securing relief for

, for during the war on the frontier in 1811- 14, he was of valuable assistance to our United States troops. He was born about 1751 and died in 1830. He was fifty years of age when he visited Lancaster in 1801. Lancaster's Contribution to Portsmouth in the Fire of 1802 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N

Ferdinand A. Demuth. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Sun Fire Company (Lancaster, Pa.) Fire departments--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Fire fighters--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Lancaster (Pa.)--Fires and fire prevention. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912

, who may be justly styled the Father of Internal Improvement of this country." The Great Fire of 1825 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Wednesday, October 19th, 1825, the city of Lancaster was visited by the most destructive fire, that, so far as known, had ever occurred in the town. It was caused by some

., July 25th, 1811. "Sir, "We have received yours of the 18th inst. enclosing a draft of James Houston, on the Bank of Pennsylvania, for $681.51, for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire in this town. This unusual liberality, from a people suffering the same calamity with our- selves, calls forth

.) Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Lancaster, 1792-1801), IV, 199-204. Eighty-nine acres and four perches of land were chosen and purchased from Matthias Slough and his wife for 3129 pounds 17/6d. See Record Book III, E, 299-304. (in the office of the recorder of deeds

representation of the sun. Later they wore black hats and capes bearing the emblem and name printed in See illustration on the opposite page. Samuel D. Bausman (right), vet- eran member of the Union Fire Company No. 1, who "ran with the machine," and served in various stations in fighting early Lancaster fires

, through the Lancaster Examiner and Herald of Wednesday, May 26th, 1847, reported that the total collections paid over to him amounted to $3,289.14. Of this sum $1,654.24 was collected in the county, and $1,634.90 in the city. Besides the cash collections, there were some flour and corn received from