county where its maker became famous, the author takes this means of qualifying to write on his subject, and also of adding a few facts of historical interest. The writer was born in the Beck Family School at Lititz, which was conducted by his father, Abraham R. Beck (1833-1928) from 1865 until 1895. The

, Penna. 6Egles, History of Lebanon—Page 149. 'Lebanon County Historical Society notes of Mrs. Lea on Beck Family. 'Penna. Archives, Vol. XVII, 3rd Series—Page 837. 'Penna. Archives, Vol. XVII, 3rd Series—Page 385, Pages 837 & 865. "Lebanon Twp. Triennial Asessment list Dauphin County Court House

will best let Mr. Beck himself tell this part of the story. He says: "I was born at Graceham, Frederick county, Maryland, on the 16th of June, 1791, and in my sixth year moved with my parents to Lancaster county, Pa., into the neighborhood of Mount Joy, whence, after a lapse of two years, we repaired

, have a part, which duty appears a more solemn one while Dictators shout challenges to Democracy. Toward this end a Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania was organized at Gettysburg, November 19, 1938, having as its purposes, "To observe as a Holy day each anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, to

Abraham Witmer' s Bridge At the period immediately succeed- ing the RevolutionaryWar, there was no bridge along the King's Highway over the Conestoga River. There was, how- ever, a public fording. A fording still exists, though now partly cover- ed over by the tracks of the Lancaster and Eastern

another sulphurious blast, I learned that in all his snapping he had not taken a single picture and had spoiled some dozen or more rolls. I forgot his name but I am sure he was of German descent and was a repre- sentative of the Pennsylvania boys that fell in Cuba." Respectfully yours, (Signed) D. J

H. Appel. Mother Bess could well qualify for the position. A large oil portrait of her dominated the living room at Abbeville, and after 1928 our living room in Cambridge. Her look was soft, kind, commanding and regal, as was her bearing. She, without any children of her own, was the strong bond

"When the Pennsylvania system becomes fully matured it will embrace infant and superior schools".2 In 1877 Dr. Emanuel Greenwald proposed to establish a kinder- garten at Trinity Church School.3 Perhaps the first and best private kindergarten in Lancaster was begun when the western room of the First

, he was referred to as "Virginia John," to distinguish him from a first cousin of the same name in Pennsylvania. His son, Abraham, accompanied the family to Virginia, where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman, Daniel Boone, whom he followed to the

population are valuable sources of information on the social and economic conditions of Pennsylvania Negroes. Edward S. Adby's Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America, from April, 1833 to October, 1834 (3 vols., London, 1835); the West Chester Negro, John Tillman's Biographical