of the Philadelphia Association, an office which he then held for many years. It was in 1861 that he opened his first store at Sixth and Market streets, so that when he came to Lancaster to lecture, he was already doing business in that store which was named Oak Hall, as well as a second store at 818

necessary to roll over. Then as a matter of course the picnic was numbered with the things that were." —July 29, 1872 Members of the Buzzard family were infamous in the annals of Lancaster County for at least seventy five years. The Welsh Mountains which border the southern side of Caernarvon Township

laid. Sunday morning the sermon by Rev. Muhlenberg was based on Exodus 20:24 and at the afternoon service Pastor Gerock selected as a text John 12:34, 35. Rev. Caspar Stoever who had been Trinity's first pastor twenty five years earlier preached on Monday morning, using as a text Ezra 20:24. At an

Lutheran Church in America. Trinity congregation automatically became a mem- ber of the new body by reason of its membership in the Ministerium. For the next seventy five years there were congregations of both the General Synod and the General Council in Lancaster County; and fraternal relations in those

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

- lescent soldiers in hospitals was 4,167, and that hospitals were located at Princeton, Burlington, Trenton in New Jersey, Bucking- ham Meeting House, North Wales, Skippack, Easton, Allentown, Reading, Bethlehem, Manheim, Lancaster in Pennsylvania, and Baltimore in Maryland. Thus, it appears that the first

sixteenth, the Lancaster Daily Express stated that "Lancas- ter County alone will send a curbstone delegation of twenty-five or thirty to Chicago for the conclave." From Pittsburgh on May thirteenth, the paper's own reporter sent his first dispatch. This is it. "At 10 o'clock on Saturday morning three of us

bless the children of this family. The parents have fol- lowed us nearly the space of twenty years. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1799—We had a serious earthquake at five o'clock; the earth is growing old; it groans and trembles. I visited John Miller's; thence we rode six miles to Martin Boehm's. WEDNESDAY, JULY

in turn was a daughter of John Wright, one of the first magistrates of Lancaster County. Susannah Wright married Dr. John Houston 1773. "PATRIOTIC FIREMEN - At a meeting of the American Fire Company of this city, held on Monday evening a committee of five was appointed to decorate the house, inside