The Unveiling of the Tablet Commemorating the Joint Sesqui-Centennial of the Constitution of the United States and Franklin College By DR. HORACE R. BARNES The four days, October 14 to 17 inclusive, will go down in the history of Lancaster County as one of the outstanding periods in the long and

Signers And Ratifiers Of The Constitution Of The United States By MRS. CHARLES M. COLDREN Of the eight Pennsylvanians who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and became signers of that immortal document, seven are shown on the plate opposite page 178. The upper four bear a direct

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

over and through America, that prevented what is now the United States from being made up of many small independent and, per- haps, warring nations which we find in other parts of the world, par- ticularly in Central Europe, We can, therefore, praise God this after- noon that the Susquehanna River

University of Pennsylvania and a renowned chemist; William Uhler Hensel, and Jacob Eichholtz, all of whom are buried in Wood- ward Hill, added lustre to the culture and the history of the United States. �

from other cities. The unveiling of the marker was held in connection with the "Feast of Roses" Memorial service, and was specially honored by the presence and par- �ticipation in the exercise of the Honorable Owen J. Roberts, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Several hundred people

, in August, 1846, Sutter took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. Throughout that year and the following year, he maintained his own troops and kept order in the vast reaches of northern California. He did not receive a cent for his services during the war, nor were his soldiers

already erected on part of the lots, a two- story brick building,—the same building as now stands here,—which in- cluded the building now owned by Dr. Theodore B. Appel, except the brick wing later built on the south side of the Appel property, the building of The Lancaster County Historical Society, and

quoted. Between 1846 and 1847 his son, Dr. F. E. Melsheimer, contributed seven papers describing new North American beetles. In 1853 there appeared a Catalogue of the Descriptions of the Coleoptera of the United States, revised by Haldeman and Leconte. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer should be given some