various times, he was a member of the Lancaster School Board, a trustee of Millersville Normal School, and active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Linnaean Society, the Union on Fire Company, Lodge 43, Free and Accepted Masons, and Trinity Lutheran Church

Letters Relating to Colonial Military Hospitals in Lancaster County By GEORGE L. HEIGES I N THE archives of the Pennsylvania Historical Society there are several collections in which may be found letters which give us some very definite information about military hospitals in Lancaster County

The Mount J oy Soldiers Orphan School By GEORGE L. HEIGES The story of the Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School cannot be told with- out including a good bit of history which goes beyond the confines of Lan- caster County. All of it is Pennsylvania history, but includes great names of our own county

, which after countless "trials and tribula- tions" is now firmly established as one of the most important adjuncts to the physi- cal well-being of the citizens of Lancaster County.1 THE BEGINNING Sixty-five years have gone by since June 15, 1893, when fifty people met in the old Y.M.C.A. building on

were appointed commissioners to superintend the removal of the State's effects to Lancaster were Lancaster County men — Jacob Strickler, Thomas Boude and Matthias Barton; 7 and from extant documents in the State archives, we have further learned the names of the men who actually hauled the State's

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

The national Methodist Camp meeting at Manheim in 1868 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The number of camp meetings which have been conducted in Lancaster County would likely run into the thousands. Little has been written about these assemblies which have been prominent features of the summer season for one

our own section of Pennsylvania. One of these was the Evangelical Association, later changed in name to the Evangelical Church. The beginning of the Evangelical Association was due to Jacob Albright, who was born at Fox Hill in Montgomery County in the year 1759. He took to wife Catherine Cope in 1785