homestead in the township of Conestoga, Lancaster County, on the 8th day of June 1775. This was imme- diately after the battle of Lexington, and one year before the Declara- tion of Independence. Thus I saw the birth of our nation, and have lived under the first President, and sixteen of his successors. I

Pennsylvania (1797) and reappeared in Rupp's History of Lancaster County (1845), a Swedish missionary was stationed at the Indian village of Conestoga about 1710. This is the story as it appears in Proud's history: "In or about the year of our Lord, 1710, a Swedish missionary preached a sermon, at an Indian

length and six feet, three inches across the wings and weighed a little over sixteen pounds." - April 1, 1876 The correct scientific name of the American or Whistling Swan is Olor columbianus. Dr. Herbert H. Beck writing in Klein's history of Lancaster County about this bird stated that usually these

Library of the Lancaster County Historical Society does not have a complete file of any one single city newspaper for the year eighteen hundred and seventy six. The following newspapers were used: January through June, Lancaster Evening Express; July through August, Lancaster Intelligencer; September

land in America which was at once named Pennsylvania and forty six years before the Declaration of Independence was formulated and signed in Philadelphia, devout German Lutherans were worshipping and receiv- ing the Sacraments in a new town in Pennsylvania with the name LANCASTER. At the present time

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

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

marked the opening of the largest "money getting campaign" in the history of Lancaster up to that time. The daily papers of that day tell us that "nearly 300 of the real live wires of business and professional life in the city and county gathered at Hotel Brunswick to give the Lancaster General Hospital