gentlemanly con- duct. A member of the Irish Light Horse Cavalry, he came to this nation an aristocrat with the bearing of a military officer and the civility of a true gentleman. James and Catharine had twelve chil- dren of whom seven survived. James, Jr. was born in Marietta 16 September 1818, two years

various methods of determining dates of found- ing: some select the date missions or Sunday schools were established — a common means of creating an eventual Lutheran congregation — while others use the charter date, ignoring much earlier but undocumented activity. Most of the congregations listed were

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The