The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part One – 1730-1861 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE BEGINNING 1 73 0 —1 744 Rev. John Christian Schultze Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr. Forty eight years after William Penn received from King Charles the sec- ond a charter for

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

The Mount J oy Soldiers Orphan School By GEORGE L. HEIGES The story of the Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School cannot be told with- out including a good bit of history which goes beyond the confines of Lan- caster County. All of it is Pennsylvania history, but includes great names of our own county

The national Methodist Camp meeting at Manheim in 1868 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The number of camp meetings which have been conducted in Lancaster County would likely run into the thousands. Little has been written about these assemblies which have been prominent features of the summer season for one

Giostason. He died at the Raccoon Church, Feb- ruary 16, 1713. He was buried there by Lidenius and Sandel." Any further light on the subject of a Swedish missionary in Lancaster County, as early as 1700, is lacking. 4 Definitely, it is known that a Swedish Lutheran pastor came to Lancaster in 1739, not

Greenwald was pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church and Rev. Elvin C. Haupt was his assistant. "OUR SCHOOLS AT THE CENTENNIAL - Through the courtesy of Prof. Shaub, Superintendent of public schools of this county, we had the pleasure yesterday afternoon of visiting Aug. Schindler's Picture Gallery, East King

as the Muhlenberg family. Almost forgotten is Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, grandson of Rev. Henry Ernst Muhlenberg, longtime pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church. Born in Lancaster in 1818, he was a son of Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg and a brother of Dr. Henry Muhlenberg, medical practitioner of the

Lancaster Cemetery where the usual burial services were conducted, Rev. Dr. Conrad of Philadelphia officiating." —January 27, 1876 Dr. Conrad who conducted the burial service was a former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster and at this time was editor of the Lutheran Observer, a position which he