, / 1789, / aged 36 years. / An officer in the Revolutionary War. / First Lieutenant, 12th Pennsylvania, 1776. / Captain, 1777. / Retired, 1778. / First Worshipful Master / of / Lodge No. 43, F. & A. M., / Lancaster, / 1785. 154. H. C. B. 155. M. N. C. 166. Amelia Landis Jefferies, / wife of Thomas

character. During Mr. Muhlenberg's rectorate an evening service was instituted. It is quite probable that before his coming to Lancaster, services were held in Saint James's church on Sunday mornings only. Mr. Muhlenberg, being a young clergyman of progressive ideas, felt that an evening service was quite

avoided. The Dispensary of St. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of

INSCRIPTION ON STEPHEN CHAMBERS'S TOMESTONE IN ST. JAMES'S CHURCHYARD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. 34, p. 104, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, is a biographical sketch of Stephen Chambers, who in his day was a leading member of the Lancaster bar and an

- lications. The Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper published in Philadelphia, contained an advertisement, under date of Thursday, �, a‘ $'• f.;3. •• n •,-;:,!... . 4r4‘ .$ + %%.5..‘ ' �March 12th, 1761, of a "Scheme of a lottery for raising 1350 dollars for the use of St. James's Church, in the Borough of

. The original invoice for the bell is in possession of The His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, and was obtained in the following manner : The late George M. Steinman, president of The Lancaster County Historical Society from its reorganization in 1896 to 1917, was an antiquarian of note, and it is

secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: "I still continue in Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania, as there is no clergyman near that place, tho' I meet with a great deal of opposition ; neither can I yet have any church." Before June, 1749, the Rev. Mr. Locke, doubtless

Allegheny ceme- tery. Mr. Danner was survived by his widow, one daughter, and three sons. Mr. Danner was born in Lancaster county, Pa., and when quite a young man enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps. Shortly after the close of the Civil War, he entered the Theological Seminary at