Company was formed; on the same day, 10th December, the Sun Fire Company organized. In 1791-2 the Active Fire Company joined the ranks to volunteer fire companies. Nearly thirty years later, on 4th March 1820, the Washington Fire Company was formed. In January, 1826, the Lancaster Axe, Hook and Ladder

this particular phase of activity. Mrs. William Rote, Jr., and Mr. M. Luther Heisey, members of the Lancaster County Historical Society, advise that Dr. Samuel W. Miller, then recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical College, became superintendent and resident physician in 1895

of guidance. (6) Adam Diller, who had captained a company of militia, marching in the same regiment as had James Buchanan, to the defense of Baltimore, in 1814, lived in Lancaster, and had served as sheriff of the county from 1828 through 1830. It is unlikely that the one-hundred-and-twenty-foot

Street.) 4 The County The County of Lancaster is the fourth oldest in the State, having been formed from Chester County in 1729. In size it is now twelfth of the sixty-sev- en counties in Pennsylvania and comprises l -45th of the area of the State. The population being 234,717, it is now classed as a

the Fire Company, president Cham- ber of Commerce, trustee and treasurer of the Park Asso- ciation, director and treasurer of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, member of the School Board for many years prior to 1910, author of "A History of the Pioneer Literary Society of 1872," former

Ages Britten—Old Clocks and Watches, 7th Edition Dreppard—American Clocks and Clockmakers Eckhardt—Early Pennsylvania Clocks Eckhardt—Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers Magee—Grandfather Clocks, Their Making and Makers in Lancaster County Moore—The Old Clock Book Nutting—The Clock Book Palmer—The Book