land in America which was at once named Pennsylvania and forty six years before the Declaration of Independence was formulated and signed in Philadelphia, devout German Lutherans were worshipping and receiv- ing the Sacraments in a new town in Pennsylvania with the name LANCASTER. At the present time

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part Two —1762- 1980 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE CIVIL WAR YEARS 1862 —1867 Rev. Frederick W. Conrad, D. D. Rev. Samuel Laird. D. D. A successor to Doctor Krotel was selected in the person of Rev. Frederick William Conrad

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

Library of the Lancaster County Historical Society does not have a complete file of any one single city newspaper for the year eighteen hundred and seventy six. The following newspapers were used: January through June, Lancaster Evening Express; July through August, Lancaster Intelligencer; September

length and six feet, three inches across the wings and weighed a little over sixteen pounds." - April 1, 1876 The correct scientific name of the American or Whistling Swan is Olor columbianus. Dr. Herbert H. Beck writing in Klein's history of Lancaster County about this bird stated that usually these

leading member of the Lancaster legal group. From 1888 until 1901 in which year he departed this life, he served Lancaster County as its member in the United States House of Representatives. During the Civil War he was an enlisted man in Company K, 97th Regiment, Chester County Volunteers. Buried in