The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church by Hiram G. Troop, Sr. Mr. Madison E. McElwain's Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727 was published in 1956, and there is a copy in the LCHS col- lection. "The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyter- ian

the United States Government with the head of George Washington or a picture of some event in connection with him than any other person in the world, except possibly King George of England, whose head is not only on stamps of Great Britain but all of its col- onies. And too, each state in the Union

British Public Records Office in London brings to light an earlier official visit to Conestoga by Pennsylvania provincial agents in 1696, and touches on the relations of the Indians there with groups farther west. It also under- scores the relative mobility of Indians, singly or in groups, during the

of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

away with the real per- sonality of the imitator, and the los- ing of personality, whatever that per- sonality may be—spiritual, material, morbid, sensual, aesthetic, means the end of personal creation, the only thing which, after all, counts in music, literature, sculpture, or painting. Stuart was one

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

States ; besides, there is nothing in my early history that would interest you or anybody else; and, as Judge Davis says, 'It won't pay.' " Rising, Lincoln wrapped a thick gray and brown wool shawl around his bony shoulders ; said good- night, and started down the stairway, with Fell calling out that

Harford in Susque- hanna County could produce, within the confines of a group of contem- porary classmates, three or four United States representatives, a like num- ber of United States district judges, a speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a United States Senator and a governor of Iowa was not as

the sum or sums that the said Abraham Witmer, his heirs and assigns, were entitled to receive, ac- cording to the true intent and mean- �ing of the Act of September 22, 1787, and its supplement of April 4, 1798, for the stone bridge across the Con- estogoe River, built and owned by the said Witmer

Hannah. Three Friends and the Swan. At once idle fears were excited lest they should join the Irish and German Catholics and destroy the colo �The operations of the French in Western Pennsylvania at that time kept the peo- ple in constant terror, and when the Acadian or French Neutral Catholics were