print through the years and will not be new to readers of church history �but we believe that this is the first time that an attempt has been made to correlate the work of Francis Asbury and Henry Boehm. In the preparation of this sketch we have extracted data from sev- eral books which tell us much

conventions and the subsequent campaigns, the people's sole source of information was the daily printed page, with occasional oppor- tunities to hear the political spellbinders as they went to and fro through the country. In that year of 1860 there were not two conventions but four which resulted in four sets

Henry William Stiegel, Man of Vision Festival of the Red Rose George L. Heiges Today I come before you as a member of that group of histori- ans generally labelled "local historians", fundamentally different from those men and women who have trained to be teachers and writers of history. Being a