Joseph Lehn, The Wood Turner And His Now Fantastically Valuable Wooden Wares. By CARL W. DREPPERD Joseph Lehn, the subject of this text, was a Lancaster County wood turner who never drew his bow, even at a venture, at the target of fame. He was born February 6, 1798. He died September 16, 1892

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

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 Along the Conoy creep BY JACOB N. OLWEILER Editor's Note. As a correspondent of the old Lancaster Examiner, over thirty-two years ago, Mr. Olweiler wrote about the Conoy mills. This story, in practically the original form, was read by him before the Lancaster County Historical Society, April 10

greatest number of members is situated in a sparsely populated rural county containing a few boroughs and no institutions of higher learning. This county has only a fifth of the population Lancaster County boasts. Our study would tend to show the "older" counties of eastern Pennsylvania—those which