Muhlenberg accompanying Stiegel to �Lutheran Church Manheim Pa 1842 From sketch /perD.McN Original German Lutheran Church — Manheim — Built 1772 on ground given to the congregation by Henry William and Elizabeth Stiegel for 5 shil- lings and "one red rose yearly in the month of June". The sketch was made by

Author: Sieling, J. H. Title: Baron Henry William Stiegel / by J. H. Sieling, M. D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Stiegel, Henry William, 1729-1785. Manheim (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [44]-65 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series

Society. "An Interesting Relic. Discovery of Part of One of Baron Steigle's Stoves," by Samuel M. Sener, published in Vol. 19, pp. 153-155, of the Pro- ceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. �"Dedication of the Memorial to Henry William Stiegel," by Professor Horace R. Barnes, published in

time had come for organizing a Lutheran congregation. Being well acquainted 1 Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Tappert and Doberstein, Phila., 1942, p. 492. 2 Ibid, p. 532. Memorial Volume, Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, 1861, p. 44. 4 Diary of the Rev. F. A. C. Muhlenberg, from the Lutheran

persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General

documentary records of Lancaster County no name appears more frequently, between 1750 and 1786, than that of William Henry, nothing has been written of this illustrious man, except incidentally, by local historians for the records of the Lancaster County Historical Society. In 1907 John W. Jordan, then

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The