W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel

Born in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, in 1851, William Uhler Hensel built a career that mixed journalism, law, politics, and writing. He studied at Franklin and Marshall College, trained in law, and became closely associated with Lancaster's public life through newspaper work and civic activity.

Hensel is remembered not only as an author but also as a newspaper editor, political speaker, and Pennsylvania's Attorney General. His books included political and historical subjects, with works on figures such as Grover Cleveland and on episodes from Pennsylvania and Revolutionary-era history.

For readers today, his appeal lies in that blend of storyteller and public man: he wrote with the instincts of someone who knew the machinery of politics firsthand, but who also cared about preserving regional and national history in an accessible way.