occupied by the home of Miss Gertrude Hensel Haldy, the record- ing secretary of our Lancaster County Historical Society. Drs. Abram Breneman, senior and junior, grandfather and father of Major Henry R. Breneman, lived in the house later occupied by A. Herr Smith and his sister, Eliza. Both doctors died in

Col. Timothy Matlack A Revolutionary Patriot In Lancaster By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS Col. Timothy Matlack, although a resident of Philadelphia, lived for a time in Lancaster. It was during the most trying period in the history of our country, and the activities of this remarkable man

persecuted Hussites at his Barony of Lititz. The suggestion to honor Zinzendorf and mark this old house came to The Lancaster County Historical Society from one of its members, Samuel H. Ranck, noted librarian of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doubtless the historical facts and importance of the place were brought

Early Fire Companies Of Lancaster City And County by (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS Old records of Lancaster borough reveal the existence of fire fighting implements as early as 1742 and 1744. There were lad- ders, hooks, bags and buckets, but little is known of where they were kept, probably

Stoner, Christian Forrer. (the Christian Faver article re-written), John Davis, Samuel Quest, Henry William Hall and Jacob Jameson. The paper with these corrections and additions was re-read to the Society at the October meeting, 1939, by Dr. Herbert H. Beck. Of all the publications of the Lancaster

, ·but ,remained silent about the repentant Shawne·e. See Conrad Weiser to Secretary Peters, 4 August 1748, Clement Z. Weiser, The Life of John Conrad Weiser (Reading, 1876), 168; and Walton, Conrad Weiser, 32, 126. •• GeoTge P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania A History (New York, 1926), II, 637. •• Voiwiler

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

circulated paper. "Amos Gilbert, Alexander H. Hood, Benjamin Herr and Henry Spiehlman, met one evening in the early part of the winter 1830-31, at the store of George Hoffman, Esq., in Strasburg, Lancaster county. The conversation turning upon the qualifications of teachers, the mode in which the children of