the dead the other day. I am not aware that Israel Smith Clare was ever a member of this society or that he at any time wrote any history for publication in our historical pamphlets. As a writer of World history he has, however, given his native county a pre-eminent name that is an honor to this

Presbytery and the first one organized in eastern Lancaster County that has been continued to the present time. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, July 28th, 1820, contains half a column, headed "The Grove Sabbath School in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." From it, it appears that a meeting of

environments of a human being from the cradle to the grave. The lives of the seven men who for seventy-three years (from 1855 to the present time) acted as superintendents of schools, or head of the public school system in Lancaster county, contain very largely the history of the public schools of the county

, Thomas Fitsimons, Thomas Hartley, Daniel Hies- ter, Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, John Peter G. Muhlenberg, Thomas Scott and Henry Wynkoop. None of these men came from Lancaster County. The population of the State entitled Pennsylvania to eight members, and all of them were elected by the vote of the State

A PAGE OF LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORY, DURING CIVIL WAR TIMES By Hon. A. G. Seyfert What I am about to say is largely a forgotten page of Civil War history. In the literature of the thrilling four-year tragedy, from 1861 to 1865, there is nothing more interesting to the historian than the enemies in

progress that he far out- stripped all his schoolmates. English schools had no existence in those days in the vicinity where Bowman was born and raised. The only language heard in his father's family or for many miles around was Pennsylvania German. He, however, �studiously applied himself to the study of

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

(Lancaster County, Pa.) Stores, Retail--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. General stores--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. East Earl (Pa. : Township)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 21-39 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical