negro of the Civil War years and the post-war period. From 1841 until his death he was in constant demand in Europe and in our nation as a lecturer. From 1871 until 1881 he also held the office of United States Mar- shal for the District of Columbia and from 1889 to 1891 he was U.S. Minister to Haiti

Kraft, described as "a wandering German preacher." When Henry Melchior Muhlenberg arrived in Pennsylvania, he found Kraft causing dissension at Trappe and in Philadelphia. The two men had fre- quent altercations before Muhlenberg was eventually accepted by the congre- gation to which he had been sent

memory of President James A. Garfield who died on the nineteenth, victim of an as- sassin's bullet. At no time since the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln had the nation been so united in paying tribute to a national figure. As the funeral of the fallen President was being held in

night were grand, and he has the happy faculty of moving you to laughter one mo- ment and the next to tears. As a mimic we have never heard his equal, as a lecturer he has no superior. There is but one John B. Gough." - April 7, 1876 Born in England in 1817, John B. Gough came to America in 1829. He led

President of the Pennsylvania German Society. Marriott Brosius, Esq. who was the principal orator was born in Colerain Township in 1843, attended Millersville Normal School and then received a law degree from the University of Michigan. Admitted to the Lancaster Bar in 1868 he soon was recognized as a

second term as Gover- nor of the Commonwealth. John F. Hartranft was born in 1830 and died in 1889. He organized the 51st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War, and was brevetted Major General only at the close of the war. Hon. David Porter Rosenmiller served two terms as a member of the