. Wakeley died and the work was finish- ed by others, although an interesting preface was written by Boehm. Some excerpts from the preface follow. FOR many years, and by many persons, including bishops, editors. and others, I have been importuned to publish the substance of my records and recollections It

South Queen Street and began a series of discussions which led to the formation of the Lancaster General Hospital. Various patriotic and fraternal orders had been invited to send representatives to this meeting and responding to the call were members of the Junior American Mechanics, Red Men, Knights of

. �Alexander Hood who introduced Douglass came to Lancaster in 1839 to be the editor of the "Lancaster Union". He continued as the owner and editor of that newspaper until 1842. Then having been admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1844, for the rest of his life until death in 1875 he practiced law and held

there in a big barn of a structure dubbed the "Wigwam," Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated for the office of President and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for the office of Vice-president. From Lancaster newspaper items of 1860 we have attempted in this paper to piece together the campaign of that year

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

alley and on the east by another fourteen foot alley." Hamilton asked no cash payment for these two choice lots in the very center of the town, only requiring that "the said Society pay �unto the said James Hamilton His Heirs & Assigns at the Town of Lancaster on the first day of May yearly hereafter

Lancaster Daily Express commented: The meeting will be a very important one and no doubt a very interest- ing one. The delegates are arriving and though there will hardly be so full an attendance as would have been the case but for the national difficulties yet there will be a strong delegation. We

Apothecaries 0/ Lancaster County 1760 to 1900 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The business of mixing and preparing substances for purposes of medi- cation, which we are pleased to call the art of the apothecary, has a definite history of more than four thousand years. However, the art of the apothe- cary has

tour at Frankford, Pennsylvania. In his files were the signed pledges of 140,000 persons who had been led to give up beverage liquor under his influence. "WASHINGTON BOROUGH - On last Tuesday the first three rafts of the season passed our borough for the lower markets. Henry Strouse and wife boarded

, serving in that post for thirty two years. A man of scholarly attain- ments, he was one of the founders of the Lancaster County Historical Society. From 1918 to 1921 he held the office of president of the organi- zation. He contributed numerous papers on historical subjects, all of which were published in