arrival the father moved to Virginia while the junior Stoever remained in Pennsylvania and lived successively at Trappe in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Earltown (New Holland), finally at Sunnyside (now in Lebanon County). John Caspar Stoever, Jr. wrote an autobiography in which he stated that he

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

papers in a single year. In all he is credited with 600 papers on natural history subjects." As to Prof. Cope's search for the eyeless catfish, we turned to Mombert's History of Lancaster County (1869) for more data and there in the section on fish prepared by J. Stauffer, we read the fol- lowing

continued to write travel letters after retirement from the lecture platform. He died at Yonkers, New York 1910. "LANCASTER'S TOBACCO CROP—The Lancaster County tobac- co crop for 1875 is selling at twenty cents for wrappers, ten cents for seconds and five cents for fillers. Should the high prices now being

residence in Lancaster. One of the city's most important citizens, he was a co-founder of the Lancaster New Era. His Lancaster home was at 431 South Prince street. A biographical sketch appears in the Ellis and Evans history of Lancaster County; page 507." Dr. James Pyle Wickersham (1825-1891) was born in

Lancaster County. His office was at 135 East King street and his home was at 323 North Duke street. �"THE NEW HOLLAND RAILROAD - This new road which passes through the north of this township received another quietus. The officers or inspectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have been viewing it and