Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

as "The First President of the United States". In 1785 he lived at Franklin Square and in 1790 at 39 Broadway. The eight-cent stamp is postmarked at the Washington Bridge �Station where the world's longest suspension bridge has been completed and named in his honor. 15. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA The

Street As I Knew It. (Typescript) n.d. Di Ninni, Ronald V. comp. History of Rutherford, Pennsylvania. (Book) 1979. Drake, Mrs. Wm. Preston and Others. Kentucky in Retrospect, 1792-1942. (Book) 1942. Dructor, Robert M. A Guide to Genealogical Sources at the Pa. State Archives. (Book) 1980. Dyke, Mary Hull

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

, but these events, slight and confused as they are, suggest, when compared to the paintings, that he gave most of his energies to life rather than to his art. Slightness of real material, how- ever, in writing a biography or art criticism should not discourage. Bi- ography being usually written by

Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

, 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

, the highly respected school- master of Lititz, Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to his nephew James Mont- gomery Beck announcing his intention of closing the Beck Family School for boys. "The final closing of my school," wrote Beck. had been in consideration by us ever since Xmas, and with the end of the

Street Railway Company. The earliest move to secure a bridge at this point proved ineffective, as ap- pears by the following minutes of the County Commissioners: "1753—August 9.—The Commission- ers and Assessors met according to adjournment and settled the accounts of the county with Peter Worral

peninsula of Nova Scotia, but the dispute concerning the limits of Acadia was a proximate cause of the war of 1755. This word is said to be derived from the �Indian word aqquoddiauke, or aquoddie, meaning a fish called a ' pollock.' The Bay of Passamaquoddy, great pollock water,' derives its name from the