Lancaster 187o: Celebrated People Lectured in the City One Hundred Years Ago. A Compilation by George L. Heiges One hundred years ago the leaders in our nation had but one means apart from the medium of the press to contact their fellow citizens and present their views; and that was the American

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

complete account. Rather, it is an outline of the first quarter century of hospital history which may possibly serve as a guide to some future historian. In the preparation of this record, the writer acknowledges his indebtedness to the late Hugh R. Fulton, Esq. who left some notes relating to the early

work in Björck's "Dis- sertatio Gradualis," de Plantatione Eccl. Sved. under date January 13, 1699- 1700. He penetrated as far as the Conestoga region in Lancaster County a quarter of a century before the white men settled there, and nearly forty years before the Moravian missionaries made their

allocated to the Lutherans by James Hamilton who planned the town of Lancaster; although not until some years later was a deed given to them for the land they had been using. In 1733 John Caspar Stoever opened a record book for the Lancaster con- gregation with the title "KIRCHEN PROTOCOLL/VOR DIE STADT