meeting. In addition to the torches carried by the marchers, there was a profusion of trans- parencies with a variety of mottoes, the one which attracted the most attenion being a familiar one, now slighly modified which read "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED THEY FALL." From a reading of the news- paper report

he embraced the religion of his fathers. He was made so by lot in 1756, for such was the custom of this singular people. Then the Mennonites expelled him for being too evangelical. He then joined the United Brethren and afterward became a member of the Methodist Church. I was born in the old

Henry William Stiegel, Man of Vision Festival of the Red Rose George L. Heiges Today I come before you as a member of that group of histori- ans generally labelled "local historians", fundamentally different from those men and women who have trained to be teachers and writers of history. Being a

visited 10,000 sick and afflicted persons.3 There came a time when John Seybert's kindly visitations with friends along life's highway had to come to an end. December 29, 1859, was his last day on the road. On that day, he arrived at the home of Isaac Parker, four miles west of Bellevue, Ohio. He alighted

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

Lutheran Church building at Brickerville, and in the published history of Emanuel Lutheran Congregation of that village we read : "A large plot of ground, although unmarked, is held sacred as the burial place of a number of Continental soldiers who died while being cared for in the old church building

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