Petersburg, Richmond and Manchester, reaching Harrisonburgh on March 2, 1809 for the convening of the Baltimore Conference. �From here they hastened on to Baltimore, then through the State of Delaware and into Pennsylvania, finally arriving at the Boehm home in Lancaster County on March 30, 1809 for a very

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

of the seventeenth century. From the church in Sweden came trained and able preachers through the years, one of them being Rev. John Dylander who had come to the colony as missionary to all of the Swedish churches in the Delaware valley and in addition pastored Glorei Dei (Old Swedes) Church in

Pennsylvania, �Frederick W. Conrad, D.D. 1861 – 1864 representing 26 constituent synods. For seven days deliberations continued in Trinity Church and on the Sunday of the great gathering, clerical delegates oc- cupied pulpits in all of the Protestant churches of Lancaster. Among the justly famous Lutherans in

military hospitals to be established in Lancaster County were at Lancaster and Manheim. In December of the same year, the Director General again reported on hospitals and stated that the hospitals at Burl- ington, Trenton, Buckingham and Skippack had been closed, and new ones had been opened at Ephrata

papers in a single year. In all he is credited with 600 papers on natural history subjects." As to Prof. Cope's search for the eyeless catfish, we turned to Mombert's History of Lancaster County (1869) for more data and there in the section on fish prepared by J. Stauffer, we read the fol- lowing

progenitors of a new hospital for Lancaster — the newspapers announced that a charter had been granted on that day by the courts to the Lancaster General Hospital. Established to the extent now of having a charter and a board of directors of twenty-four leading citizens of city and county, it became

various times, he was a member of the Lancaster School Board, a trustee of Millersville Normal School, and active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Linnaean Society, the Union on Fire Company, Lodge 43, Free and Accepted Masons, and Trinity Lutheran Church

residence in Lancaster. One of the city's most important citizens, he was a co-founder of the Lancaster New Era. His Lancaster home was at 431 South Prince street. A biographical sketch appears in the Ellis and Evans history of Lancaster County; page 507." Dr. James Pyle Wickersham (1825-1891) was born in

Lancaster County. His office was at 135 East King street and his home was at 323 North Duke street. �"THE NEW HOLLAND RAILROAD - This new road which passes through the north of this township received another quietus. The officers or inspectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have been viewing it and