House of Representatives of the United States and later a United States senator. He was also a younger brother of Pastor Friedrich August Muhlenberg, member of the Continental Congress, a member and speaker of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and a mem- ber of the House of Representatives. Born at New

, September 27th, in the court house, which stood in the center of Penn square. For this reason Lancaster claims the distinction of having been the capital of the United States, even though it was but for a day. As Howe was in possession of Philadelphia, then the largest city in America, only 62 miles distant

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Beck, Herbert Huebener, 1875-1960. Title: The meeting of the Continental Congress in Lancaster / by Herbert H. Beck. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Continental Congress. Constitutional history--United States. United States--Politics

Judge W. W. Appel and T. Roberts Appel, Esq. The tablet reads : HENRY E. MUHLENBERG 1753 - - - 1815 A leader among the pioneer botanists of America lived here during his last 35 years when the stone building was the parsonage of Trinity Lutheran Church marked by the Lancaster County Historical Society

supposed, however, that it was a plainly constructed affair, just sufficient to serve its purpose, a container for the hells. It was the first recorded belfry in the town of Lancaster, that of the Reformed Church having been erected in 1741, and that on the Court House in 1748. As stated heretofore, it was