there in a big barn of a structure dubbed the "Wigwam," Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated for the office of President and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for the office of Vice-president. From Lancaster newspaper items of 1860 we have attempted in this paper to piece together the campaign of that year

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

Boehm's Chapel was erected on the old Boehm farmstead, at the time oper- ated by Jacob, a son of Martin Boehm. Henry Boehm wrote the following history of the building of the chapel. Boehm's Chapel is distinguished for its antiquity, It was the first Methodist house of worship in Lancaster County. The plan

: Thank you very much for your letter which has been referred to me. Other paintings by Eichholtz in the collections of the Na. tional Gallery of Art in addition to the three you mentioned are as follows: Mrs. Phoebe Freeman Mr. Kline George Leman Henry Eichholtz Leman Joseph Leman Margaret Adelia Leman

alley and on the east by another fourteen foot alley." Hamilton asked no cash payment for these two choice lots in the very center of the town, only requiring that "the said Society pay �unto the said James Hamilton His Heirs & Assigns at the Town of Lancaster on the first day of May yearly hereafter

Lancaster Daily Express commented: The meeting will be a very important one and no doubt a very interest- ing one. The delegates are arriving and though there will hardly be so full an attendance as would have been the case but for the national difficulties yet there will be a strong delegation. We

. �Alexander Hood who introduced Douglass came to Lancaster in 1839 to be the editor of the "Lancaster Union". He continued as the owner and editor of that newspaper until 1842. Then having been admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1844, for the rest of his life until death in 1875 he practiced law and held

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

South Queen Street and began a series of discussions which led to the formation of the Lancaster General Hospital. Various patriotic and fraternal orders had been invited to send representatives to this meeting and responding to the call were members of the Junior American Mechanics, Red Men, Knights of

on Robert Blair Risk written by James I. Pyle may be found in Volume 56 of the Lancaster County Historical Society journals. "LUMBER FOR THE CENTENNIAL— Mr. C.A. Schaffner of Marietta has furnished within the past few weeks for the Centennial buildings twenty carloads of lumber to the order of Peters