be one of turmoil. As the campaign drew toward its close, the number of political meet- ings in city and county increased. Just how intense and widespread was the interest will be seen from the list of such gatherings held in Lancaster County in 1860, which we have appended to this paper. Reading the

contained a preface, also in Latin, which reads "With an asterisk are denoted such prescriptions as are to be prepared and compounded in the general laboratory, the others are to be mixed for the occasion at the office of the hospital. There are very many prescriptions 2 Papers Lancaster County Historical

for so long put up at miserable taverns and been among strangers and through such perils to meet so many familiar and kind friends. In the afternoon we journeyed on to my father's. My aged par- ents embraced me with joy, while I felt there is no place like home. Bishop Asbury and my father gave to

in the same general area of the city of Lancaster where those early Lutherans met, their descendents and successors faithfully assemble Sun- day after Sunday. In 1729 the County of Lancaster was erected and in the following year the Borough of Lancaster had its beginning, and in that same year a

Lutheran Church in America. Trinity congregation automatically became a mem- ber of the new body by reason of its membership in the Ministerium. For the next seventy five years there were congregations of both the General Synod and the General Council in Lancaster County; and fraternal relations in those

foundation of Pennsylvania's industrial greatness. One of the early iron furnaces in the area of northern Lan- caster County was Elizabeth Furnace which operated continuously from 1750 until 1882 and where Henry William Stiegel succeeded his father-in-law Jacob Huber as ironmaster and where he in turn was

fell upon the ear like the soft ripple of the musical brook after the passing away of a thunder- storm." —March 14, 1870 From accounts that have come down through the years, Wen- dell Phillips was undoubtedly one of the nation's greatest orators, ranking with Webster and Everett. A graduate of Harvard

about. Ninety-one years were to elapse before Lancaster County was to come into being. The Swedish occupancy of the Delaware Valley continued for a period of seventeen years, and during that time, various purchases of land from the Indians included at least part of present Lancaster County. This fact is

, such being a necessity with the increase of population and by reason of the fact that St. Joseph's Hospital and the County Hospital were overcrowded most of the time." Election of officers resulted as follows: Rev. Mr. Bicksler, president; Dr. C. Elvin Haupt, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, first vice

extensive woodland which he owned, he cut much of it for poles and railroad ties, the latter for the use of railroads in Lancaster and Berks Counties. He was a long time active member of the Lancaster County Historical Society to which organization he gave many Indian artifacts and pottery from his