COMMENTS ON THE DEATH OF ISRAEL SMITH CLARE (Historian) By Hon. A. G. Seifert It seems to me proper and fitting that we devote a few minutes of to- night's meeting to the character and writings of Lancaster County's foremost world historian whose remains were laid to rest in the narrow tenement of

HISTORY OF CEDAR GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EAST EARL TOWNSHIP By Hon. A. G. Seyfert In the midst of the monuments and tombstones in the cemetery around the Pequea Presbyterian Church down in Salisbury Township, stands a gigantic White Oak tree. Between the church and the Session House is a Black

Lancaster County's Superintendents of Public Instruction By A. G. SEYFERT T AM not unmindful of the fact that all history is that which the human race 1has made, either in units or as a mass of units. To me there is nothing so interesting as the story of a human life, be that life great or small

to finc homes and the question arose: Why not go to Canada? Here the home seekers might find large tracts of cheap uncultivated land not far from the American border, where each one could own his farm. As early as 1786 a small group of Mennonites from the locality of Plum stead, Bucks County, left

incident created much merriment, and is a story that has not been forgotten to this day. Huber transferred his efforts in organizing lodges to Berks county, as he well knew the townships of Brecknock, Caernarvon, Robinson and Cumru, on the northern border of Lancaster, were full of material. He also knew

SKETCHES OF SOME LANCASTER COUNTY CHARACTERS FROM THE GODCHARLES BIOGRAPHIES. Hon. A. G. Seyfert. At the regular meeting on Friday evening, June 5, 1925, no original paper was ready to be read. Hon A. G. Seyfert, volunteered to fill in by reading several sketches written by Frederick Godcharles of

THE WALLACE FAMILY AND THE WALLACE STORE OF EAST EARL By Hon. A. G. Seyfert Midway between Blue Ball and East Earl station, on the Lancaster and Downingtown branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on what was formerly known as the Downingtown pike, now one of the State's best highways, is the old