that one of the Pennsylvania signers, James Smith, had read law in Lancaster and was here admitted to the bar. This encouraged a search for information concerning Mr. Smith's connection with Lancaster, and I take pleasure in present- ing this brief paper to our Lancaster County Historical Society on

little shortened if at all, compared with the distance to Lancaster city, and the roads much worse. "Resolved, That from the superior value of fertile soil, and density of population, the included county taxes would exceed that of any other section in the new county. Expenses of necessary public

- dustry, economy and public virtues, to raise the state to its present happiness and prosperity," and that "a number of citizens of the above description, in conjunction with others, from a desire to increase and perpetuate the bless- ings derive to them from the possession of property and a free

day added to the comfort of the occasion as the large crowd assembled for the exercises. Accompanied by our daughter, Gladys, and Junior, I had the pleasure of spending the day chatting with a number of both Northern and Southern veterans, and listening to the President's address, following the

, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and began the practice of law at Clarion, Pa. He was elected to the 38th Congress, serving from March 4th, 1863, to March 3rd, 1865. Later, he moved to Kentucky and was ordained to the Baptist ministry. He preached there and also in Pennsylvania and New York. He died

. and Mrs. Lincoln lived at a hotel in Springfield, kept by a Mrs. Beck, formerly of Lititz, Lancaster county, Pa. Mr. Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846 as a representa- tive of the 7th Congressional District of Illinois. Many members of congress at that time lived in boarding houses, and formed

supply was rapidly diminishing. Among the Indians so migrating, were two old per- sons, man and wife, who fearing death at the hands of their own tribe because of their age and inability to travel with them, fled to the Hershey home for protection. Their usefulness was about gone, and according to tribal