appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

aboriginal, colonial, revolutionary, post-revolutionary and modern epochs. When the full and complete history of this, our great county, is finally written, it will, I fancy, be divided chronologically into these periods: 1. The geological formation and the aboriginal occupation of the coun- ty, prior to the