: Harriet Lane : (Later Harriet Lane Johnston) / by (Mrs. A.K.) Ida L. K. Hostetter. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Johnston, Harriet Lane, 1830-1903. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Women--Biography--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical

The Early Architecture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORMS IN LANCASTER COUNTY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. "No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life

, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

I. NOTES ON MONEY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES ISSUES USED IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNA In presenting to you the paper on this subject it is the author's intention to record in the files of our Society information which has been gathered by a search covering a period of a few years extending from

, millerite at the Gap mine, and brucite at the Wood mine, dis- covered and operated at these points. Prof. Herbert H. Beck, in his Minerals of Lancaster County, states that these minerals have done more to bring into academic circles of the world the name of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, than any other

84 84 84 82 " 82 91 " 83 " 81 REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS LIVING IN LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1840 RAPHO Jacob Brown aged 85 MANHEIM Peter Maurer 83 WEST DONEGAL Peter Sheaffer EAST HEMPFIELD John Patterson WEST HEMPFIELD Isaac 0. Donnell ( ?) LANCASTER CITY John Riverson age not given Joseph

came here in Lancaster County. When they turned to politics as they did about 1742, they swept everything before them. We assert again, they were equally potent with the Quaker in establishing religious liberty in Pennsylvania against the power of England, which early saw that religious liberty here at

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

stock business generally, for as previously stated a general knowledge of the origin of cattle in the United States, is a sine qua non to a proper knowledge of the business locally. Neat cattle, as we know them in Lancaster County as well in the United States, are similar to the English sparrow that

COUNTY TAX IN 1774 In a volume of Lancaster County Miscellany among the manuscripts of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, are found the sums of taxes assessed against and collected from the several townships and the Boro of our County for Provincial and for County purposes in 1774

�Bucks Countians lodged as follows: Isaac Van Horne at Nauman's and Ralph Stone and James Erwin at John Musser's corner of East Orange and Lime Streets and Gerardus Wynkoch at Judge Henry's. The Chester County legislators divided: Jos. Hemphill lodged at A Scott's on Orange Street; Jas. Hannum at