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LANCASTER , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Lancaster county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:Conestoga See also:river, 68 in. W. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (190o) 41,459, of whom 3492 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 777 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 47,227. It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia & See also:Reading and the Lancaster, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford & See also:Southern See also:railways, and by tramways of the Conestoga See also:Traction See also:Company, which had in 1909 a mileage of 152 M. Lancaster has a See also:fine county See also:court See also:house, a soldiers' See also:monument about 43 ft. in height, two fine hospitals, the Thaddeus See also:Stevens See also:Industrial School (for orphans), a See also:children's See also:home, the See also:Mechanics' Library, and the Library of the Lancaster See also:Historical Society. It is the seat of See also:Franklin and Marshah See also:College (Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church), of the affiliated Franklin and See also:Marshall See also:Academy, and of the Theological See also:Seminary of the Reformed Church, conducted in connexion wi h the college. The college was founded in 1852 by the consolidation of Franklin College, founded at Lancaster in 1787, and Marshall College, founded at Mercersburg in 1836, both of which had
earned a high See also:standing among the educational institutions of Pennsylvania. Franklin College was named in See also:honour of See also:Benjamin Franklin, an See also:early See also:patron; Marshall College was founded by the Reformed Church and was named in honour of See also:John Marshall. The Theological Seminary was opened in 1825 at See also:Carlisle, Pa., and was removed to See also:York, Pa., in 1829, to Mercersburg, Pa., in 1837 and to Lancaster in 1871; in 1831 it was chartered by the Pennsylvania legislature. Among its teachers have been John W. See also:Nevin and See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Schaff, whose names, and that of the seminary, are associated with the so-called " Mercersburg See also:Theology." At Millersville, 4 m. S.W. of Lancaster, is the Second Pennsylvania See also:State Normal School. At Lancaster are the See also:graves of See also:General John F. See also:Reynolds, who was born here; Thaddeus Stevens, who lived here after 1842; and See also:President See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Buchanan, who lived for many years on an See also:estate, " Wheatland," near the city and is buried in the See also:Woodward See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill See also:Cemetery. The city is in a productive See also:tobacco and See also:grain region, and has a large tobacco See also:trade and important manufactures. The value of the city's factory products increased from $12,750,429 in 1900 to $14,647,681 111 1905, or 14.9 %. In 1905 the See also:principal products were umbrellas and canes (valued at $2,782,879), cigars and cigarettes ($I,95r,971), and foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products ($1,036,526). Lancaster county has See also:long been one of the richest agricultural counties in the See also:United States, its See also:annual products being valued at about $ro,000,000; in 1906 the value of the tobacco See also:crop was about $3,225,000, and there were 824 manufactories of cigars in the county.
Lancaster was settled about 1717 by See also:English See also:Quakers and Germans, was laid out as a See also:town in 1730, incorporated as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 1742, and chartered as a city in 1818. An important treaty with the See also:Iroquois See also:Indians was negotiated here by the See also:governor of Pennsylvania and by commissioners from See also:Maryland and See also:Virginia in See also:June 1744. Some of General See also:Burgoyne's troops, surrendered at See also:Saratoga, were confined here after the autumn of 1780. The See also:Continental See also:Congress sat here on the 27th of See also:September 1777 after being driven from Philadelphia by the See also:British; and subsequently, after the organization of the Federal See also:government, Lancaster was oneof the places seriously considered when a See also:national See also:capital was to be chosen. From 1799 to 1812 Lancaster was the capital of Pennsylvania.
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