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

elsewhere. Unless we keep in mind the fact that the election of 1860 was prior to the radio, telephone and daily mail in many sections, and that there were only a few dailies in the United States, we may not be able to appreciate fully the widely extended influence of Mr. Fell's efforts in securing Mr

of the negotiations with France, and the determination of the business men of Philadelphia to support the government. Following this, a meeting of the select council was held, "expressing to the President of the United States the highest approbation of his conduct relative to the existing differences

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

the map founded upon it, lies �before me as I write. It is printed in red on a piece of line woolen cloth, 21 by 25 inches in size. In the left-hand corner, at the top, there is a portrait of Washington, and underneath it the words PRESIDENT Of the United States of AMERICA. In the right-hand corner

that the president of the United States in 1799 granted a free pardon to David Bradford, the leader of the so- called Whiskey Insurrection. Member American Philosophical Society While living in Baltimore he was elected a member of the Society on January 20, 1786. The certificate of membership was