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YORK , a See also:city and the See also:county seat of York county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., about See also:loo m. W. of See also:Philadelphia and about 28 M. S.E. of See also:Harrisburg. Pop. (19oo) 33,708-1304 being See also:foreign-See also:born and 776 negroes; (1910) 44,750. York is served by the See also:Maryland & Pennsylvania, the See also:Northern Central (Pennsylvania) and the Western Maryland See also:railways. Among the public buildings are the County See also:Court See also:House (1899) and a large Federal See also:Building (1910). York is the seat of the York Collegiate See also:Institute (1873), founded by See also:Samuel Small (d. 1885) and of the York County See also:Academy (1785). The See also:Historical Society of York (1895) has a valuable collection of documents See also:relating to See also:local See also:history. York is the commercial centre for a See also:rich agricultural region, and has manufactures of foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, See also:silk goods, &c. The See also:total factory product in 1905 was valued at $14,258,696.
York, the first permanent See also:settlement in the See also:state W. of the Susquehanna, was laid out in 1741 in what was then the See also:Manor of Springettsbury (named in See also:honour of Springett See also:Penn, a See also:grand-son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Penn) by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Cookson, a surveyor for See also:Richard and Thomas Penn, then the proprietors of the See also:colony, and was named after York, See also:England. The first settlers were chiefly Germans from the Rhenish See also:Palatinate, who were See also:Lutherans, Reformed, See also:Mennonites and Moravians. See also:English See also:Quakers and Scotch-Irish settled here also. The settlement See also:lay on the Monocacy road, the See also:main See also:line of travel to the S. and S.W., and it See also:grew rapidly, especially between 1748 and 1751. In 1749 the county of York was erected (from See also:Lancaster coun .y) and York was made the county-seat. In 1754 York had 217; houses and Imo inhabitants. Troops from York took See also:part in the Seven Years' See also:War and the War of See also:American See also:Independence. In the old county court-house (built in 1754-56, pulled down in 1841) the See also:Continental See also:Congress sat from the 3oth of See also:September 1777 to the 27th of See also:June 1778, having See also:left Philadelphia on the approach of the See also:British, and having held a See also:day's session at Lancaster. At York the Congress passed the Articles of See also:Confederation (asth of See also:November 1777) and received See also:news of the American victory at See also:Saratoga and of the See also:signing of See also:treaties between the See also:United States and See also:France. The See also:Conway See also:cabal came to an end here, and the arrival here of See also:Baron See also:Steuben and of See also:Lafayette in 1777 helped the American cause. In September 1778, $r,50o,00o in See also:silver See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent by France to the United States was brought to York; and See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin's See also:press, removed from Philadelphia, issued $1o,o0o,000 of Continental See also:money. Thomas See also:Paine here wrote part of his Fifth Crisis. 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:Livingston, a signer of the See also:Declaration of Independence, is buried here. In the See also:Civil War, Confederate troops under See also:General See also:John B. See also:Gordon entered York on the 28th of June 1863, and a small Federal force retreated before them; and the See also:battle of See also:Gettysburg was fought about 28 M. E. York was 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 1787 and was chartered as a city in 1887.
See G. R. Prowell, The City of York, Past and See also:Present (York, 1904), and C. A. See also:Hawkins and H. E. Landis, York and York County (ibid. 1901).
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