was a builder, and erected more houses in his time than any other citizen, the number being esti- mated from 200 to 300, besides half a dozen big tobacco warehouses. He was a member of city councils and the school board, and served for three years as county auditor. When a young man, he was a member

lecture on Count Zinzendorf, by the late Rev. Dr. Augustus C. Thompson, which he delivered at the Andover Theological Seminary nearly sixty years ago; and these words are as true today as they were in the 1870's. It was the second lecture in a series of twelve on Moravian Missions. These are the words

, and his enthusiasm *The year is not given in the original paper. Probably, it should be 1785. f In 1763 Richard McAllister founded McAllister's Town, later known as Hanover, York County, Pa. ‡Egle's History of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, 1883, p. 187. §Ibid, p. 225. �for the enterprise spread

could but read in its face the scenes that passed before it! The grandfathers' clocks, as we have them today, began first to take form in the countries beyond the sea, about one hundred years before they were made in Lancaster County. The clock that is run by a weight and gov- erned by a pendulum is not

Lancaster In The Gettysburg C ampaign By M. LUTHER HEISEY THE ALARM At no time in the long history of Lancaster County did consternation and excitement reign among its citizens as in the closing days of June, 1863, when the gray ranks of the Confederacy approached to its very gateways. For days

of the program arranged to honor the memory of the General on the exact anniversary day, August 12, 1939, on which he founded New Helvetia, now Sacramento, California, one hundred years ago. The Sutter of Sacramento was in the prime of life, vigorous, adventurous, daring, romantic and visionary

, "whose influence has carried on through the years in the splendid public school system we now have in Pennsylvania and the fine old coloniaI College of Franklin and Marshall." Dr. Schaeffer related how Rev. Mel- sheimer personally raised funds for the school building, which was erected on a plot of

the province on certain "conditions and concessions." The ninth of these was, that "in every one hundred thousand acres, the Governor and Proprietary, by lot, reserveth ten [thousand] to himself which shall lie but in one place." The name of "manor" was given to these portions of reserved land in its