AN OLD TIME WORTHY Jacob Hiltzheimer was a native of Manheim, Germany. He left there when nineteen years old, and arrived in Philadelphia September 5, 1748. He was apprenticed to a silversmith, but, after he had completed his trade, he very wisely preferred horse dealing, farming and open air to

Lancaster is not now known. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain any ref- ferences to these gifted musicians. Contributions from Lancaster County for the Distressed Poor of Philadelphia During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1797 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T various times, during its earlier

Philadelphia county, Chester county and Bucks county are given, showing how large the vote was for the differ- ent candidates. In Lancaster county, only, the names of those elected are mentioned, but the vote is not given, which is very much to be regretted. From the item it appears that the Chester county

THE FIRST LONG TURNPIKE IN THE UNITED STATES. PART I. THE KING'S HIGHWAY. A HISTORY of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike seems to me to involve the whole early system of transportation in this Colony and State from Philadelphia to the West, and I have, therefore, concluded that the most

known as the Old Philadelphia Pike or the Old Road. The first stage coach line between Intercourse and Lancaster was established, as near as can be determined, in 1898 by Martin Glouner. A single horse drawn conveyance similar to a market wagon, with a roll-up curtain and double set of seats, was the ve

Wright's Ferry (Columbia), and funneled into Philadelphia. Penn had rough-charted plans for syphoning river traffic up the Con- estoga and down the Schuylkill rivers, after having made a canoe trip, and short portage, over the suggested route, with recommendations for improving �the channels in the

LANCASTER COUNTY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY By William Frederic Worner. In 1727 or 28, when Benjamin Franklin was about twenty-two years of age, he influenced a number of well-informed men in Philadelphia to unite with with him in forming a club to be named the "Junto." He states

A LIST OF THE ORIGINAL LANCASTER SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE PHILADELPHIA AND LANCASTER TURNPIKE. When I wrote my article on "The First Long Turnpike in the United States," I was convinced that somewhere among the almost forgotten records of the State there must be a list of the

Mrs. Frazer's Philadelphia Campaign Samuel R. Slaymaker II FOREWORD I am indebted to distant relatives, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Slaymak- er of Cleveland, Ohio for sending me the original manuscript that made this piece possible. The manuscript was written by one Eliza- beth Smith of Chester County