by Dr. Julius F. Sachse before the Pennsylvania-German Society, it is shown that the versatile and confi- dent Conrad Beissel, with no musical �training and with the most rudimen- tay knowledge of the common chord and its inversions, evolved a distinct- ive system of harmony, on the basis of which he

Martin Meylin A Progenitor of the Pennsylvania Rifle By HERBERT H. BECK The Pennsylvania Rifle IN THE first half of the eighteenth century there was developed 1 in southeastern Pennsylvania a type of firearm that was new to the world. It revolutionized gunmaking. This firearm soon became known as

Flying Camp, and on April 11, 1777, he was elected Director General of all the Military Hospitals for the Armies of the United States. On May 11, 1780, he was elected Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, which position he held until 1806. He was president of the . College

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

features of Pennsylvania, what is known of its past should be recorded by the Lancaster County Historical Society. Rock Springs, or as they are sometimes called, Seven Springs, are in Fulton Township near the Mason and Dixon line. They are in part of a large though somewhat scattered tract of land in

Pennsylvania. Across the Beaver Creek from the Shultz-Reynolds property and adjoining it lived another man locally prominent. This was John Strohm, who was in Congress from 1845 to 1849. Strohm was a man as humble and unassuming as he was respected and beloved. He is still known hereabouts, as "honest John

. Finding that not all of the emigrants who continued to arrive were fitted for the restrictions and self- denials of these communities, Zinzendorf and Spangenberg re- solved to provide a third church settlement in Pennsylvania, found- ed on more liberal lines. In this community the congregation would be

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best