preached the first sermon, then my father preached in German from Gal. 6:15,16. Harrisburgh was another of our preaching places. It was then called Harris' Ferry from John Harris the founder, whose grave is there. In 1803 it was a small place and Lancaster was then the capital of Pennsylvania. We had a

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

Lancaster 187o: Celebrated People Lectured in the City One Hundred Years Ago. A Compilation by George L. Heiges One hundred years ago the leaders in our nation had but one means apart from the medium of the press to contact their fellow citizens and present their views; and that was the American

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

tongue is but little tinged with the German accent. His English is most perfect and the sentences roll from his lips as smooth and as rounded as those of Macauley but possess more fire. During the campaign — I had the assurance from his own lips he will most certainly visit Lancaster County." Returning

however to preach to the Indians, but to minister to the German Lutherans. Indeed, it is only through Swedish pastors who, in the course of their ministerial work or of their travels, came this way, that any connections can be established between the Swedish colony on the Delaware and Lancaster County

land in America which was at once named Pennsylvania and forty six years before the Declaration of Independence was formulated and signed in Philadelphia, devout German Lutherans were worshipping and receiv- ing the Sacraments in a new town in Pennsylvania with the name LANCASTER. At the present time