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

Lancaster County. His handwritten records of thousands of births and marriages are pre- served in the library of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Doctor Green- wald preached at the funeral service which was followed by burial in Woodward Hill. The father of Pastor Strine, also John Jacob, was

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

, 1876 And that, it would appear from newspaper records, represented the total celebration of Washington's Birthday in the great Centennial year. "REVOLUTIONARY RELIC— A couple of aged hotel or inn signs are now in the possession of John Mason, the host of the White Horse Hotel in this county. The first

very important freight line; although from 1970 to 1975 the Pennsylvania Railroad ran a deluxe express daily from Harrisburg to Baltimore, using this route. This train is now routed through Lancaster and Philadelphia. "MILLS - One of the most noted Lancaster County mills of the olden times was the

owned and published by his father. His first political office was as a clerk in the County Commissioner's Office and from here he was appointed Sec- retary of the Commonwealth by Governor Stone. It was as a member of Congress from 1909 until his death on Dec. 4, 1929 and as the acknow- ledged leader of