. These two men, although never actually elected to the office of bishop, carried the title through the rest of their lives and are so called in Methodist history. Therefore on Asbury's second visit to Lancaster County he was factually a bishop of the church. On this visit he made some calls on ministers

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

Pennsylvania, �Frederick W. Conrad, D.D. 1861 – 1864 representing 26 constituent synods. For seven days deliberations continued in Trinity Church and on the Sunday of the great gathering, clerical delegates oc- cupied pulpits in all of the Protestant churches of Lancaster. Among the justly famous Lutherans in

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

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania

sixteenth, the Lancaster Daily Express stated that "Lancas- ter County alone will send a curbstone delegation of twenty-five or thirty to Chicago for the conclave." From Pittsburgh on May thirteenth, the paper's own reporter sent his first dispatch. This is it. "At 10 o'clock on Saturday morning three of us

County Historical Society. In 1871 Father Boehm again journeyed (October 8) to Lancaster to assist in the laying of a cornerstone of a Methodist Church on East King street between Ann and Plum streets. A. Herr Smith, Esq. who hosted Rev. Henry Boehm on his 1870 visit to Lancaster was another famous son

progenitors of a new hospital for Lancaster — the newspapers announced that a charter had been granted on that day by the courts to the Lancaster General Hospital. Established to the extent now of having a charter and a board of directors of twenty-four leading citizens of city and county, it became