OF LANCASTER COUNTV. 4G1 



classical attainments, left his native country, antl innnediatcly on his arrival in Lan- 

 caster was appointed professor of niathcniatics and (u'rnian literatnre in Franklin 

 College. This college was located on North Queen street near James, and tht- l»uilding 

 during the Revolutionary War had been used as '-Barracks"' for tlie accommodation of 

 soldiers. Afterwards it was known as tlie "Old Store House," and more recently as 

 "Franklin Row;" it is now occupied by live or six funulies of some of our most wortliy 

 fellow citizens as tlieir private residence. 



Through the teaching of Von Buelow, Reichenbach became a receiver of the Doc- 

 trines of the New Church and avowed them openly. He aftenvards wrote and pub- 

 lished several works on the doctrines, one of which was entitled .-l(/a//i'>/i— publislied 

 both in English and German — and was favorably received, but has become so rare 

 that it is doubtful whether more than a single copy exists in the county now. 



Von Buelow afterwards returned to Europe, l)ut from his etVorls, before lie left Lan- 

 caster, there aro.se a small band of '"receivers," about the year 1788, which lias con- 

 tinued with alternately increased and diminished numbers, down to the ]>resent day. 

 Among the first, besides Von Buelow and Reichenbach, in this county, who became 

 receivers of the doctrines of the New Church, were Francis Bailey and family, Jacob 

 Carpenter, the intimate friend of Buelow, Frederic Damish, a Saxon, a teacher of music, 

 and a Mr. Eckstein. Subsequently, Joseph Ehrenfried, John Funk, Henry Kefter, 

 intimate friends of Damish — William Girling, formerly a Methodist minister, John 

 Henry Young, Henry Baer, Henry A. Carpenter and wife, Louis C. Jungerich, Charles 

 Frederic Nauman and wife, Frederic J. Kramph, John Robertson, the intimate friend 

 of Girling, Henry Pinkerton and son, Christian Fritz and wife, William II. Benade, 

 previously a Moravian minister, Alexander Officer, L. J. Demuth and others, became 

 receivers of these doctrines, and were members of the Lancaster Society. Of tho.se who 

 became receivers elsewhere and afterwards settled here, either permanently or for a time, 

 were Joseph C. Boardman, David Pancoast and family, ]\Irs. Ann Kramph, 3Irs. Mary 

 Kramph, William Toelle and others. 



The Lancaster New Jerusalem Society was organized February 14th, 183G, and 

 although small in number, and unaided by auy one outside of their own organization, 

 they purchased a property in East Vine Street, Lancaster city, and erected a small 

 Temple in 1837, since which time, religions services have been held therein, almo.st 

 every Sunday, down to the present time. This Society was regularly instituted by Rev. 

 Manning B. Roche, of Philadelphia, on the 17tli of April, 188G, and Avas incorporated 

 by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, June 8th, 1841. No resident Pastor, regularly 

 elected, has been employed by the Lancaster New Jerusalem Society, except Rev. 

 Isaac Worrell, from October 1839, to April 1840, and Rev. N. C. Burnham, from July 

 1866, to October 1868; but the ordinances of the Church have been administered .si-mi- 

 annually or quarterly, and occasional preaching had, by New Church Pastors and 

 Ministers, ever since the Society was first in.stituted. The Sunday School was organ- 

 ized in 1840, and has been in operation from that time to the present, under the tlirection 

 of a Superintendent. In the absence of a Pastor the services are conducted by a Leader. 



UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST, OR VEREINIGTE BRUEDER. 



The founders of this sect were William Otterbein, a German Reformed Mini.stw- in 

 char<re of the congregation at Lancaster (see Geum.^n Rekokmkd) and Martin Boclim, 

 a Mennonite. The origin of the name of this sect is said to have been as lollows: 

 About 1758 a large meeting attended by Cliri.stians of many denominations took place 

 at Lancaster. Boehm, a man of small stature wearing the lyiennomtc costume, at the 

 close of a discourse was folded in the arms of Otterbein, a man of liberal dimensions 

 who exclaimed, ^^Wir sind Bruederr "We are brethren;" to this incident is ascribed 

 the denominational title of this sect, which exists in Lancster county, but whose stati.s- 

 tics I have not been able to secure. 



