. 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

various times, he was a member of the Lancaster School Board, a trustee of Millersville Normal School, and active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Linnaean Society, the Union on Fire Company, Lodge 43, Free and Accepted Masons, and Trinity Lutheran Church

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

... of the one part, and Martin Lantz, George Gross, Caspar Loughman and Michael Beyerly, members and trustees for the Society or Congregation of the Lutheran Church in the township of Lancaster in the County of Lancaster." The deed further witnessed that "the said James Hamilton as well for the

Pennsylvania, �Frederick W. Conrad, D.D. 1861 – 1864 representing 26 constituent synods. For seven days deliberations continued in Trinity Church and on the Sunday of the great gathering, clerical delegates oc- cupied pulpits in all of the Protestant churches of Lancaster. Among the justly famous Lutherans 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

John Seybert A Hessian Soldier's Son Who Became Bishop of a Church By GEORGE L. HEIGES Like other blessings which we have enjoyed and still enjoy in Lancaster County, the Christian Church too has been taken very much for granted, with little thought given by even church people to the development of

circus comprised the area bounded by Ann, Plum and Fulton streets and lying south of the Pennsylvania Railroad. REVEREND HENRY BOEHM 1775 . . .. 1875 "FATHER BOEHM—Rev. Henry Boehm, the oldest Methodist preacher in the world, is now staying in Lancaster as the guest of A. Herr Smith, Esq. Yesterday he

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

marked the opening of the largest "money getting campaign" in the history of Lancaster up to that time. The daily papers of that day tell us that "nearly 300 of the real live wires of business and professional life in the city and county gathered at Hotel Brunswick to give the Lancaster General Hospital