Boehm's Chapel was erected on the old Boehm farmstead, at the time oper- ated by Jacob, a son of Martin Boehm. Henry Boehm wrote the following history of the building of the chapel. Boehm's Chapel is distinguished for its antiquity, It was the first Methodist house of worship in Lancaster County. The plan

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

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

list of medicines that are now or will soon be loudly called for by the Military Hospitals. Paper, Twine, Square Snuff Bottles are so essentially necessary to take with us, to fit up the Regi- mental Chests that I wish your order to buy them at Lancaster immediately & also a line to Mr. Secretary to

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

papers in a single year. In all he is credited with 600 papers on natural history subjects." As to Prof. Cope's search for the eyeless catfish, we turned to Mombert's History of Lancaster County (1869) for more data and there in the section on fish prepared by J. Stauffer, we read the fol- lowing

, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it