behooves us to encourage what is emphatically native talent." 3 Dr. William Baker Fahnestock was born in Lancaster, Octo- ber 13, 1804, and exactly twenty-five years later was married in St. James' Episcopal Church to Maria, daughter of Henry M. and 3 From the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journalof Tuesday

preached. This Conestoga refers to the Berg- strasse Lutheran Church of Ephrata Township, for it is the only one that could be found about three miles from Ephrata. The Rev. John Samuel Schwertfeger was a clerical delegate to the Ministerium in 1762 from Cones- toga, representing New Holland, Bergstrasse

, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Barton, rector of St. James's Epis- copal Church. There were eighteen children born to these unions. Zantzinger was a prominent churchman, a prosperous merchant, a pro- moter of numerous enterprises, a loyal soldier, and a civic leader. He was a generous contributor to and an

, though his gravestone in St. James's Episcopal Church records him as "late of Richmond in Yorkshire." His short life (he died at 43) covers a career than which none in the Southern Susquehanna Valley was more notable. He seemed to have been connected with all of the leading changes and events in thi,s

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

after forty-five years had passed a commentator said that Lan- caster was "far in the wilds remote from public view." But enough of this, lest I be accused of disloyalty to my townstead. As the years of our story unfold, they present a brighter picture, for the inhabitants were of sturdy stock and

disputes; the other, the avowal of loyalty to the English cause by the Six Nations. Governor Thomas gave some sage advice when he told the delegates that "a Present now and then for the Relief of their necessities, which have in some measure been brought upon them by their intercourse with us, and by our

driving the old redware out of the market." 6 The Gasts Coming as immigrants to America through the port of Balti- more, the Conrad Gast family finally settled in Lancaster, finding a haven in a log cabin at Prince and James streets. Starting in the pottery business the pioneer Conrad prospered, and

worthy of record. Time has a relentless way of removing the last sources of information of the past, and it is usually the minor incidentals of yesteryear that are first to vanish. To save some of these in the Serpentine Barrens of the Southend, and related incidentals from other parts of the county, the