of the seventeenth century. From the church in Sweden came trained and able preachers through the years, one of them being Rev. John Dylander who had come to the colony as missionary to all of the Swedish churches in the Delaware valley and in addition pastored Glorei Dei (Old Swedes) Church in

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

papers in a single year. In all he is credited with 600 papers on natural history subjects." As to Prof. Cope's search for the eyeless catfish, we turned to Mombert's History of Lancaster County (1869) for more data and there in the section on fish prepared by J. Stauffer, we read the fol- lowing

, 1876 Melville De Lancey Landon, born in 1839 on his father's farm in Madison County, New York, served in the Union Army and following �the war he began the cultivation of cotton in Louisiana. Returning from a European journey he took up journalism. His humorous correspon- dence signed Eli Perkins made

residence in Lancaster. One of the city's most important citizens, he was a co-founder of the Lancaster New Era. His Lancaster home was at 431 South Prince street. A biographical sketch appears in the Ellis and Evans history of Lancaster County; page 507." Dr. James Pyle Wickersham (1825-1891) was born in

Lancaster County. His office was at 135 East King street and his home was at 323 North Duke street. �"THE NEW HOLLAND RAILROAD - This new road which passes through the north of this township received another quietus. The officers or inspectors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have been viewing it and