for business reasons but to establish a residence. In 1772, Marshall retired from business, having given the apothecary shop into the hands of his sons, Benjamin, Christopher, Jr., and Charles. Among Marshall's friends in Lancaster County was Peter Miller of the Ephrata community, to whom he wrote on

when one session of an Indian treaty then being consummated in the Lancaster County Court House, was held in the church. Prominent among the commissioners were James Wright of Wright's Ferry, Joseph Fox and Samuel Rhoads of the Provincial Assembly, and William Logan and Richard Peters of the Executive

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

State House of Representatives, after which he also served as Mayor of Lancaster. A son of Rev. D. P. Rosenmiller, Lutheran pastor in various county churches, he was born in Lancaster, was graduated from Lancaster High School, served in the Navy during the Civil War, then read law in the offices of J. B

in turn was a daughter of John Wright, one of the first magistrates of Lancaster County. Susannah Wright married Dr. John Houston 1773. "PATRIOTIC FIREMEN - At a meeting of the American Fire Company of this city, held on Monday evening a committee of five was appointed to decorate the house, inside

. Kepler's partner in the hardware business was R. M. Slaymaker and the firm was known as Kepler and Slaymaker. "A LARGE DROVE - The Bedford Gazette says 'Mr. Franklin Clark of Strasburg, Lancaster County passed through here on Wednes- day with one of the finest droves of sheep that we have ever seen. They