Bishop Francis Asbury and The Reverend Henry Boehm George L. Heiges This account aims to be a brief record of the joint labors of two devout and zealous missionary preachers of the Protestant Church in America. One of them was Henry Boehm who was born in Lancaster County, scion of sturdy Swiss

THE LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PREFATORY NOTE A complete history of the Lancaster General Hospital has not been written, due in part to the unfortunate fact that many of the early records are not extant. What is here presented is not even to be considered as a full and

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

County of Bucks. (Signed) John Morrison Public Records of Pennsylvania Lancaster, July 7, 1802 Received of James Trimble, the sum of two dollars and twenty five cents for the carriage of a box from the Borough of Lancaster to the City 16 Letter in the Library of Congress. 17 Robert McKean, age 36, was

October 11 was election day and a greater number of Pennsylvania voters went to the polls on that day than on any previous similar occasion. More than one hundred and eleven thousand votes were cast. Simon Snyder won by a plurality of 28,400, but in Lancaster County, the county of his birth, he lost by

Lancaster on November 19, Governor McKean issued a proclama- tion which called upon the duly elected electors "of a President and Vice President of the United States to serve at the election in their behalf to be held at the Seat of Government (being the Borough of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster

Mombert's history of the county concerning this Court House that "it was sufficient in size and conveniences, not only to accommodate the County Court and the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth, but was for many years the Capitol of Pennsylvania, and the sessions of the legislature were held therein from

-House." Here, final presents were pre- sented to the Indians "as a Mark of the Affection and Regard of the good people. of the Province for them." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and SUSANNA WRIGHT In the history of the formative years of Lancaster County, no name stands higher than that of Quaker John Wright, 4 who

the church is of utmost importance for if Mr. and Mrs. Stiegel had not deeded to this congregation a lot of ground on which to build a church, the Festival of the Red Rose would never have been instituted. �When the earliest history of Lancaster County was published by Daniel Rupp in 1844, a few short