GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

Apothecaries 0/ Lancaster County 1760 to 1900 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The business of mixing and preparing substances for purposes of medi- cation, which we are pleased to call the art of the apothecary, has a definite history of more than four thousand years. However, the art of the apothe- cary has

Petersburg, Richmond and Manchester, reaching Harrisonburgh on March 2, 1809 for the convening of the Baltimore Conference. �From here they hastened on to Baltimore, then through the State of Delaware and into Pennsylvania, finally arriving at the Boehm home in Lancaster County on March 30, 1809 for a very

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts provided the following information. "There are thirteen paintings, all portraits, in the Academy collection by Jacob Eichholtz, as listed below: Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz and Three Children Edward Eichholtz Jacob Eichholtz (now believed not to be a self portrait) Mrs. Walter

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity Lancaster, Pennsylvania Part One – 1730-1861 By Dr. George L. Heiges THE BEGINNING 1 73 0 —1 744 Rev. John Christian Schultze Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr. Forty eight years after William Penn received from King Charles the sec- ond a charter for

memory of President James A. Garfield who died on the nineteenth, victim of an as- sassin's bullet. At no time since the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln had the nation been so united in paying tribute to a national figure. As the funeral of the fallen President was being held in

the church is of utmost importance for if Mr. and Mrs. Stiegel had not deeded to this congregation a lot of ground on which to build a church, the Festival of the Red Rose would never have been instituted. �When the earliest history of Lancaster County was published by Daniel Rupp in 1844, a few short

those days down through the years to the Civil War period, the missionary-preachers of the Protestant denominations were familiar figures on the roads of Lan- caster County. Filled with stories of discomforts and long fatiguing horse- back journeys as well as spirit-stirring experiences, the biographies

Lancaster. He served as the first president from 1870 to 1876 and again in 1920 served for some time as the head of the Lancaster organization. A veteran of the Civil War, Mr. Bursk served during two different enlistments in the 122nd Pennsylvania Volunteers and the 50th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers

Pennsylvania (1797) and reappeared in Rupp's History of Lancaster County (1845), a Swedish missionary was stationed at the Indian village of Conestoga about 1710. This is the story as it appears in Proud's history: "In or about the year of our Lord, 1710, a Swedish missionary preached a sermon, at an Indian