to as Doctor John Piersol McCaskey. Born in Paradise Township, this county in 1837 he died at his home 126 N. Mulberry Street on the 19th day of September 1935 with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Volume 67 of the journals of the Lancaster County Historical Society has a full account of the career of

Apothecaries 0/ Lancaster County 1760 to 1900 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The business of mixing and preparing substances for purposes of medi- cation, which we are pleased to call the art of the apothecary, has a definite history of more than four thousand years. However, the art of the apothe- cary has

Letters Relating to Colonial Military Hospitals in Lancaster County By GEORGE L. HEIGES I N THE archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society there are several collections in which may be found letters which give us some very definite information about military hospitals in Lancaster County

Pennsylvania and then was lost to view. Wortman was se- lected as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading in May 1753 but left there in December of the same year. His later years are obscure. Trinity Church, Lancaster, struggling along with unsatisfactory pastoral service but ever anxious to enjoy the

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

New Jersey. The com- mentator once wrote a paper on the relations of Asbury and Boehm and included accounts of Boehm's visits to our county but he missed the one visit reported in this item. An account of Henry Boehm's life and labors may be found in Volume 70 of the proceedings of the Lancaster

M. Deaver," said the Lancaster New Era, and to those of this generation it may be explained that Dr. Deaver was a native of Drumore Township in Lancaster County and at that time a leading surgeon in Philadelphia. �r Horse drawn ambulance of the hospital about 1907. Driver is "Teddy" Powell, and to

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

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