. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

pharmacists, although leading medical and scientific societies send delegates to each decennial pharmacopoeial convention. The first apothecary in Lancaster of whom we have knowledge was James Peters, whose advertisement appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette on Jan- uary 10, 1765. Just imported in the last

given of this country by Martin Kendig, one of the seven heads of families who had settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He had landed in Philadelphia, from thence went to Germantown, then to Lancaster, and finally settled in Pequea, Conestoga Township,3 Soon afterward he married a Miss

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

the congregation's founding in 1730. Full credit for the decorative scheme was accorded Mr. Robert Eichholtz, a son of Lancaster's renowned portrait artist, Jacob Eichholtz. Samuel Laird, D.D- 1864-1867 On Sunday morning June 10 at 10:30 the Centennial observance opened according to schedule. The

, daughter of the Reverend Tobias Wagner who was among the early itinerant Lutheran pastors in Pennsyl- vania. 5 Soon after their marriage, the couple settled in Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. From this union there were five surviv- ing chilldren: John C., Peter, Jerome, Frederick and

Jacob Stauffer, artist, botanist and owner of the first printing press in Manheim. the Philadelphia shop of a maker of clavichords (forerunner of the piano) to see an instrument which Stiegel was having made. In 1766 Muhlenberg directed the dedication of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster and on that

our own section of Pennsylvania. One of these was the Evangelical Association, later changed in name to the Evangelical Church. The beginning of the Evangelical Association was due to Jacob Albright, who was born at Fox Hill in Montgomery County in the year 1759. He took to wife Catherine Cope in 1785

. �Alexander Hood who introduced Douglass came to Lancaster in 1839 to be the editor of the "Lancaster Union". He continued as the owner and editor of that newspaper until 1842. Then having been admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1844, for the rest of his life until death in 1875 he practiced law and held

Cape Hinlopen to the Falls of the Delaware and thence westward to the Great Falls in the Susquehanna, near the mouth of the Conewago Creek." 1 The Lancaster County Historical Society held a meeting on April 1 with a program commemorating the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Found- ing of Pennsylvania