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

preach- ing of Thomas Ware, 9 Methodist presiding elder that Henry, son of Martin Boehm became a changed man. Henry wrote "There God restored to me the joy of salvation. Then I united with the Church, a duty I should have performed years before." At this time. Henry Boehm was twenty three years old and

Collections of Eichholtz Paintings George L. Heiges To those Lancastrians who minimize the status of Jacob Eichholtz as an outstanding American portraitist, it may come as a surprise to be told that in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington there are eleven portraits by Jacob

attitude the assembly united in singing several stanzas of the favorite German hymn "Sey lob und Ehr dem Hoeschsten Gut." (All praise and thanks to God most high,) Pastor Gerock then read a prepared document telling of the history of Trinity church up to that time, after which the historical narrative was

the history of Trinity Church. The year 1867 was notable in the life of the congregation for a number of reasons. First was the action of the vestry to excavate areas under the north and south ends of the church for the installation of two hot air furnaces. To this day these areas remain the only part

information concerning the journals. Samuel Peter Heintzelman began making entries in a small pocket diary in 1822, the very year in which he received appointment to West Point upon the recommendation of Congressman James Buchanan. He continued to use such pocket diaries until 1854. On January 17, 1854 he