Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

Party. A few days before Buchanan conducted Lincoln to the White House, a committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Worth left Lancaster to go to Wash- ington for the purpose of accompanying Buchanan upon his journey to Lan- caster. This group of gentlemen reached Washington and were presented to Buchanan

-grandfather advisory and explanatory of the newly-adopted basic law — the Constitution of the United States. Be it said to the credit of all who settled in early Lancaster County re- gardless of the much varied national origin, whether English, Swiss, German, French, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, or others, put their

Province. Some of his relatives settled in Chester county and became Friends. When John Smith brought his family to America, three sons, —George, James (the subject of this sketch), Arthur, and several daughters of whom little is now known,— were with him. He came to Lancaster county and settled west of

, Philadelphia, Pa. RATIFIERS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY Five men who ratified the Constitution of the United States, and one who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, who are buried in Lancaster, were honored at a memorial service held Sunday afternoon, December 12, 1937, in the churchyard of St. James's

Congress of the United States. While making certain researches, I came across the names of several men, born in Lancaster county, who had represented other congressional dis- tricts in the United States ; and knowing the interest our Society takes in the success of Lancaster's sons, whether here at home