[a brother of the Benjamin above mentioned]." Ellicott, by his interest in science and education, was appointed an official Visitor to the Franklin Academy at Lancaster in 1807; six years later, he succeeded General Daniel Hiester as trustee of Franklin College. While his family were Quakers, Andrew

, died, aged 104 years. 19, Major David G, Simons, of Marietta, physician in the Air Force, received an honorary degree from Franklin and Marshall College for his record-breaking flight into outer space by balloon on August 19, Major Simons, who has been engaged in research on the effects of high

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used

GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS IN OLDEN DAYS While we can go back to the scenes of our childhood we cannot go back to our youth. The lads of two generations ago knew nothing of the supervised, organized and directed play-lots of the present time with their abundance of equipment and paraphernalia. But the

individual in Pennsylvania from the time William Penr returned to England in 1701 until the Treaty of Lancaster 1744 was James Logan left by Penn as Secretary of the colony and supervisor of any lieutenant-governor whom Penn might send to America. Pennsylvania history during the first half of the eighteenth