' Biog. History, p. 478. "Life and Public Services of James Buchanan," by R. G. Horton, pp. 20, 21. Buried in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. Bronze marker. BURNS, Anthony T.: d. May 18, 1833; aged 42 years. Pvt. under Capt. Michael Spangler and Col. Maxwell Kennedy. Pa. Arch., 6th Series, Vol. 8

. William Addams was born in Lancaster county, April 11th, 1777, and moved to Berks county, where, after serving as a member of the State As- sembly, he was elected to Congress and served from March 4th, 1825, to March 4th, 1829. He died at Sinking Springs, Pa., May 30th, 1858. SYDENHAM ELNATHAN ANCONA

Lincoln, eldest son of Mordecai and Hannah Salter Lin- coln, was born May 3, 1711. With his parents he came to Cov- entry, Chester county, Pa., about 1720, either from Middlesex or Monmouth county, New Jersey. Following his marriage, evidently he located in Caernarvon township, Lancaster county, Pa. In

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

, in favor of the proposed measure. There were about forty persons present, the most of whom signed a petition drawn up by A. H. Hood, which was forwarded by him to a mem- ber of the Assembly from Lancaster county. George Hoffman, Amos Gilbert and James McPhail, Esq., were appointed a com- mittee to

Northumberland, where he died in 1808. John W. Lippold recently presented a very fine paper on the history of this family to our Society. (Trowbridge) KITTERA, JOHN WILKES-- Was Captain of a company on guard duty at Reamstown, Lancaster County. Soon began study of law, and upon admission to the bar practiced at

land. A receipt given by Edward Shippen, dated January 7, 1761, shows that ground rent was paid on Lot 379 for four years. The amount paid was one pound, four shillings and six pence. In July, 1765, the burgesses of Lancaster decided to erect a house large enough to hold three engines in the northwest

bar in 1743. (His name appears in the list of members of the Lancaster bar, with year of admission, as found under the subject of "Bench and Bar," in Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, Page �245). He continued to reside in Lancaster until his untimely death by drowning in the Susquehanna

weight of the log—what its weight would be with one end lying on the ground as he lifted the other end to certain heights from the ground. When his father sent him to the field to do certain work, he soon found him doing all kind of mathematical problems. When old enough he began teaching school, and for