HOW THEY WERE NAMED NOMENCLATURE OF OUR TOWNSHIPS. The township is the unit of Teutonic society. As such it is more ancient than the county, the kingdom, or the empire. In its earliest form it was established by a group of families, holding together for mutual protection and cultivating the soil in

SOME HELFFENSTEIN LETTERS. The Reverend John C. Albertus Helffen- stein was pastor of the Reformed Church of Lancaster from 1776 to 1779. He was born in the Palatinate, February 16, 1748, and died at Germantown, Pa., May 17, 1790. He was the sou of the Rev. Peter Helffenstein, Superintendent of

OLD FRANKLIN COLLEGE. In our investigations into the begin- ning of the literary and social life of Lancaster county, the early days of old Franklin College should not be for- gotten. That an institution of ad- vanced grade Should have been found- ed in Lancaster one hundred and eleven years ago