print through the years and will not be new to readers of church history �but we believe that this is the first time that an attempt has been made to correlate the work of Francis Asbury and Henry Boehm. In the preparation of this sketch we have extracted data from sev- eral books which tell us much

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

Books, Papers, etc., belonging to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia to the Borough of Lancaster as follows." 6 From Scharff and Westcott's "History of Philadelphia." Washington, D. C., became the capital of the nation in 1800. See also "Andrew Ellicott, Surveyor of the Capital of Our

, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it

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

. Dr. Greenwald's memorial address was doubtless one of the finest in the State, and we offer no apology to our readers for the following full report of it as part of the interesting proceedings of the most memorable day in the history of the country. Dr. Greenwald's health did not return as speedily

, Democratic contender. In 1860, it was owned by "Hiestand, Huber and Hecker-" It continued to be a Republican paper until its de- mise about 1920. The Express, published from 1843 until 1876 was originally neutral politically, strongly supporting the temperance cause. Begun as a weekly, it had developed into

during the Revolutionary War. The Jonathan Potts Collection is particularly rich in such letters ; and because of this, it seems appropriate to first tell you something about Jonathan Potts. He was born in the year 1745 at Colebrookdale (Popo- dickon) in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and as a youth