Show AN N EARLY MENNONITE LEADER Hans Herr Who Led a Little Band to the New World Years Ago Many Ago Many Descendants Lancaster Pa ln In In the early days of at American history before men dreamed of a war for or Independence there crossed the perilous waters of the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic Rev Hans Herr with a band of followers driven from Europe by religious intolerance With his little band he landed in America In the year 1710 and be began an at once to settle that part of Pennsylvania known now as Lancaster county They turned the hunting ground of at the Conestoga Indians In into an agricultural paradise Hans Herr was pastor of the tho flock and inspired by industry persistence FT Hans Herr and the grace of God he made a home for his followers out of the dark woodlands and heavy swamps that constituted the virgin wilderness These settlers of the Pennsylvania woods were believers in the creed of Menno Simon the founder of the Mennonite Mennonite Men Men- church and were driven step by step from Europe by the religious intolerance of the time Under the leadership of their pastor Hans Herr they sailed for America and became the pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania Since the first breaking of the sol soil the county has felt the influence o of many newcomers There w were re the Scotch Irish In the south and the Quakers who pushed over from Chestel Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter tel county and the Welsh In the northeast among their Iron furnaces so that Lancaster In its Us radical and religious aspect Is as cosmopolitan as the state of Pennsylvania itself i But the language the dress and the racial types of the early German set set- I tiers still stUl hold bold on tenaciously and 1 it itis I Is well for Lancaster county that the spirit of the first first comers is still the spirit of the community The wealth of the community the fields cultivated cultivate like gardens the houses as neat and clean from cellar to garret as mirrors and the people quiet peaceful thrifty and abounding in business ability and useful energy are the heritages of old Hans Herr and his fellow T oday the descendants of the little band which Hans Herr led to the new world number I |