The Whitesides of Colerain The Revolutionary Captain and the Con- gressman The pioneer days of our country were a fitting school for the training of both the minds and bodies of the men and women who first helped to clear the forests and build the homes of our people. The early settlers were

Pennsylvania, but only in 1725 (3 C. R., p. 323), and settle on Tulpehocken Creek. About 650 were sent to North Carolina, where they arrived unaer Christopher De Graffenreid, in De- cember, 1709 (do., p. 62), and were killed by the Indians about a year later. But no others of them came to America; and

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LUDWIG REINGRUBER, 1836-1886 Ludwig Reingruber, the Bavarian artist, who was a citizen of Lancas- ter, Pennsylvania, from 1870 to 1883, was the son of Maximilian and Fran- ces Reingruber. He was born August 11, 1836, at Ratisbon on the Danube. Ratisbon, from the eleventh to

were three or more marked or distinct chan- nels through which fugitive slaves from the border escaped into Pennsyl- vania, and were aided by that mys- terious agency, the "Underground Rail- road," to Canada. One might be said to have had its course from the East- ern shore of Maryland and Delaware

Benjamin West Henry, A Lan- caster Artist, The ancestors of Benjamin West Henry were Robert and Mary A. Henry, his wife, who emigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled in Chester County. They were accompanied by their three sons, John, Robert and James. John, the eldest son

THE WHITEHILLS AND ROB- ERT JENKINS IN CONGRESS James Whitehill, the pioneer ances- tor of this family of prominence, set- tled in Salisbury township, on Pequea creek, a short distance from its source and near the Pequea Presby- terian Church, about two miles from the Old Road and in provincial

The Underground Railroad, Within a few months I sat one day in the reception room of the principal of one of our Eastern Pennsylvania preparatory schools. On the walls hung two small pictures of Abraham Lincoln, of the sort so often seen, with a quotation from his speeches or letters printed beside

Who Was Jacob Hibshman, the Con- gressman from Lancaster County? John Gerhard Hibshman was a native of Switzerland, and came to this country in 1732, at the age of 19 years. Five years later, returning to his native land for his wife, he sailed on the ship St. Andrew, September 24, 1737, from

and 80 perches. This farm was once the camping grounds of the Indians. On a recent visit by the writer to the farm, the spots where the wigwams stood, their happy hunting grounds, and where the medicine man pounded or ground the roots for their medicine were pointed out. The last mention- ed place is