GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

Apothecaries 0/ Lancaster County 1760 to 1900 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The business of mixing and preparing substances for purposes of medi- cation, which we are pleased to call the art of the apothecary, has a definite history of more than four thousand years. However, the art of the apothe- cary has

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

in the same general area of the city of Lancaster where those early Lutherans met, their descendents and successors faithfully assemble Sun- day after Sunday. In 1729 the County of Lancaster was erected and in the following year the Borough of Lancaster had its beginning, and in that same year a

Lutheran Church in America. Trinity congregation automatically became a mem- ber of the new body by reason of its membership in the Ministerium. For the next seventy five years there were congregations of both the General Synod and the General Council in Lancaster County; and fraternal relations in those

woman suffrage and the abolition of slavery. J. M. W. Geist, editor of the Lancaster Daily Express in 1870. It is pre. sumed that he wrote most of the comments which appeared in his newspaper. Mr. Geist was born 1824 in Bart Township, Lancaster County, taught school in Bart at age of sixteen, went to

Lancaster County and the Swedish Settlement on the Delaware By GEORGE L. HEIGES1 When the Swedish ships, "Kalmar Nyckel" and "Fogel Grip" cast anchor at the present site of Wilmington, Delaware, on the 8th day of April in the year 1638, the formation of Lancaster County was not even being dreamed

, 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

Library of the Lancaster County Historical Society does not have a complete file of any one single city newspaper for the year eighteen hundred and seventy six. The following newspapers were used: January through June, Lancaster Evening Express; July through August, Lancaster Intelligencer; September