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Before S. Morgan Smith was an industrialist – perhaps the leading industrialist in York County, Pa.’s, history – he was a pastor. And early in his call as a minister, he served as a military chaplain. He was mustered out of the military 150 years ago, and his biographers have set up a presentation to tell about how this minister came to serve in the military.

Many people are familiar with Catholic Valley Road near Larue in southern York County. But there’s no church in that valley today. The current edition of the Codorus Valley Chronicles explores the story of that building, St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church