small group of men, who became known as "The Syndicate," to operate orphan schools with profit to themselves. However, that will come later in the story. The system of schools for soldier's orphans was now over its period of beginning, and was generally accepted as an institution that had a function to

Bishop Francis Asbury and The Reverend Henry Boehm George L. Heiges This account aims to be a brief record of the joint labors of two devout and zealous missionary preachers of the Protestant Church in America. One of them was Henry Boehm who was born in Lancaster County, scion of sturdy Swiss

to $1670 was given to Muhlenberg College and the Seminary at Philadelphia. Again in 1867 the Ministerium of Pennsylvania withdrew from the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, this time to become a constituent synod of a new church body known as The General Council of the Evangelical

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part One – 1730-1861 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE BEGINNING 1 73 0 —1 744 Rev. John Christian Schultze Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr. Forty eight years after William Penn received from King Charles the sec- ond a charter for