at Franklin & Marshall College and member of the Executive Committee of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Pro- fessor Barnes, in turn presented as the speaker of the day, Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and an authority on the history

center of military activities in those days. The names of original members of the Society as shown by the Society's records, whose residence was given as Lancaster County at the time of join- ing, and a few other Lancastrians whom I found were members, with brief personal reference and rank through which

painted. I know I am venturing on dangerous ground when I talk in Lancaster City about what is worthy of being painted in Lancaster County and other parts of Pennsylvania Dutchland. I do not know enough of what painting has been done around about Lancaster to know how many of these things that I shall

the other. Harris was the first to act, and said, "I never get out• of the way of a skunk." Stevens in- stantly replied, "I always do," and walked around him. The significance of this incident is that anything that Harris later contributed to the annals of our local history about Stevens in words of

, city councils, and students having retired, the military returned in reverse of the former order. Thus was written the final chapter in the life of one of Lan- caster's most honored heroes, whose death was deeply mourned by city, county, state and nation. The Daily Evening Express stated that more than

Traditions," pp. 208-213. Also Vol. XXV, p. 52, Publications of Lancaster County Historical Society. �professor at Franklin and Marshall College, and presented Dr. Messersmith to the King. Finally orders came to proceed home, and via Mobile, Pensacola, and Havana, the Constellation reached Norfolk, December

coming to Lancaster. No one knew more of the history being made in Pennsylvania during the Revolution than did Timothy Matlack, who served on many committees and as a delegate to many conventions. He knew much of the inside history and the transactions of the Continental Congress during the early years

few other exceptions, the entries for the Schaffners are remarkably full and complete. One may follow them through life from birth to death with very few irregularities. Anyone who has done much work with church records will realise that this alone throws some light upon the character of the family