The Reformed Church in Lancaster County During the Eighteenth Century By WILLIAM J. HINKE T ODAY, when we celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the coming of Leonard and Michael Amweg, two of the pioneer settlers of Lancaster County, we naturally ask the question : What were the causes which

Lancaster is not now known. Subsequent issues of local papers do not contain any ref- ferences to these gifted musicians. Contributions from Lancaster County for the Distressed Poor of Philadelphia During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1797 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T various times, during its earlier

Autobiography of William Michael (Part I.) (By GEORGE ERISMAN) I was born in Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, in April 1768. My father was an European, my mother was a native Americau. In the stru g -gleforIndependenceheboreapart,—heenteredtheAmericanArmyinthe rank of Captain, pay-master to the

fact that the permanent settlement of what is now Central Pennsylvania was due to the bravery and sacrifice of the noble sons of Lancaster County. Thus Lancaster County had furnished the majority of the troops and the ablest officers during the building of this most important of all the frontier

weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

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