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

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

gave a brief history of the origin of the Christian Association and also stated the objects to be accom- plished. A collection was lifted to defray the expense incurred for printing and for the use of the room (in the Court House)." —April 1, 1870 In the long history of the Y. M. C. A. in the United

continued until 1925 but be- fore this, it had again become a weekly periodical. The Examiner and Herald was established in 1830 and then espoused the Anti-Masonic party until that party's collapse. In 1856 it supported John C. Fremont, candidate of the Republican party as opposed to James Buchanan

stated in the History of New Sweden, which Israel Acrelius wrote in 1758. He said, "The land on the west side of the river [Delaware] which the Swedes had purchased of the heathen, first in Minuit's 2 time and afterward under Governor Printz, or had acquired a right to under agreement, stretched from

, 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

Union County, Pennsylvania. James Merrill and Thaddeus Stevens both came from their native Vermont about the same time and were close political friends in Pennsylvania. The wife of General Merrill was Annie Houston, daughter of John W. Houston and a great grandaughter of the famous Susannah Wright who

Christiana, Downingtown, and West Chester and arrive in Philadelphia in time for Sunday service." —July 17, 1876 MILLERSVILLE COMMENCEMENT - ORATION - THE REVO- LUTIONARY RISING - W. W. Griest, Lancaster, the orator sketched the early events of the Revolution in graphic language when the strong hand of

. "DEATH OF REV. B. C. SUESSEROTT —It is our melancholy duty to record the death of our friend, Rev. B. C. Suesserott, the beloved pastor of St. Johns Lutheran Church, which took place today about eleven o'clock Born on the 28th day of April 1833 in Cham- bersburg. educated in Pennsylvania College at

meeting of in- terested people from these towns was held under the direction of the Rev. C. I. Thompson, who was then pastor of the Duke Street Methodist Church in Lancaster, and who had himself conducted successful camp meetings. A decision was reached to once again hold a Methodist camp meeting, and the