THE WALLACE FAMILY AND THE WALLACE STORE OF EAST EARL By Hon. A. G. Seyfert Midway between Blue Ball and East Earl station, on the Lancaster and Downingtown branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on what was formerly known as the Downingtown pike, now one of the State's best highways, is the old

their Theological studies under his directions. Beneath this monument sleeps a "Father in Israel." This was the theological giant that founded Cedar Grove church. Dr. Smith, for in 1760 Princeton conferred D. D. on him, is indeed a Father in Israel as well as the Father of the Church to the members of

as teachers." The teachers resented this innovation, and a conflict of authority arose, which created a good deal of excitement among the members of the Board and the teachers themselves. At a meeting of the School Directors of the county, held in Lancaster on the first Tuesday in May, 1854, James

Pioneer Mennonites who came from Pennsylvania. On the high banks of the Grand River opposite the Town of Doon on the Betzner farm in 1810, the first cemetery was laid out in which the Mennonite Pioneers were buried. Here the remains of many Lancaster County born men and women are at rest in their

, Thomas Fitsimons, Thomas Hartley, Daniel Hies- ter, Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, John Peter G. Muhlenberg, Thomas Scott and Henry Wynkoop. None of these men came from Lancaster County. The population of the State entitled Pennsylvania to eight members, and all of them were elected by the vote of the State

SKETCHES OF SOME LANCASTER COUNTY CHARACTERS FROM THE GODCHARLES BIOGRAPHIES. Hon. A. G. Seyfert. At the regular meeting on Friday evening, June 5, 1925, no original paper was ready to be read. Hon A. G. Seyfert, volunteered to fill in by reading several sketches written by Frederick Godcharles of

A PAGE OF LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORY, DURING CIVIL WAR TIMES By Hon. A. G. Seyfert What I am about to say is largely a forgotten page of Civil War history. In the literature of the thrilling four-year tragedy, from 1861 to 1865, there is nothing more interesting to the historian than the enemies in

month and 18 days. Here rest the ashcs of the founder of the village of Bowmansville, the capital of Brecknock." Mr. Bowman was born at Bowman's Mill, in Allegheny Valley, Berks county, on the first day of December, 1789. His father was a Swiss Mennonite, whose an- cestors had emigrated to America on