"When the Pennsylvania system becomes fully matured it will embrace infant and superior schools".2 In 1877 Dr. Emanuel Greenwald proposed to establish a kinder- garten at Trinity Church School.3 Perhaps the first and best private kindergarten in Lancaster was begun when the western room of the First

Lancaster City kids said, or screamed, when we were in the thin of a word battle or challenging a playmate to one. These words seemed to have an important place in the Ed- wardian child's world of give and take. Even "nice" children, (of which I hope you'll believe I was one), were known to use them on

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Abner McMichael Eyde, with Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1891, when I was ten years old, my Dad, Eli Eyde, was transferred from his Columbia job as telegrapher for the Pennsylvania Railroad to the tower at Lancaster on North Prince Street between Walnut and Lemon

, daughter of the Reverend Tobias Wagner who was among the early itinerant Lutheran pastors in Pennsyl- vania. 5 Soon after their marriage, the couple settled in Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. From this union there were five surviv- ing chilldren: John C., Peter, Jerome, Frederick and

Jacob Stauffer, artist, botanist and owner of the first printing press in Manheim. the Philadelphia shop of a maker of clavichords (forerunner of the piano) to see an instrument which Stiegel was having made. In 1766 Muhlenberg directed the dedication of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster and on that

The Last Child Born in the White House Miriam Eyde Bixler In the year of 1915, during President Wilson's administration, some very proud Lancaster County relatives and friends rejoiced in the birth of a child in the White House. We're referring, of course, to the birth of Dr. Francis Bowes Sayre