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

bar in 1743. (His name appears in the list of members of the Lancaster bar, with year of admission, as found under the subject of "Bench and Bar," in Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, Page �245). He continued to reside in Lancaster until his untimely death by drowning in the Susquehanna

never deny that he was an Abolitionist. Conscience, always more powerful than bayonets, triumphed in that case, as in all oth- ers, and the weapon of the would-be assassin dropped from its aim with trigger unpulled. This story the late �Hon. Anthony E. Roberts, who was United States Marshal on this occa

of the greatest of modern sculptors, Antonio Canova, and he named his eldest son for him. About this period he was persuaded to construct some artificial limbs, none at this time being made in the -United States. Seeing that those im- ported from France were imperfect in the knee joint, he invented a

THE ELSER HOMESTEAD AND FAMILY HISTORY, The Elser homestead, better known as Elser's saw mill, is located on Mid- dle Creek, in Clay township, about one-half mile southeast of the village of Clay. The original tract contained 104 acres of limestone land, while the tract at present contains 96 acres

. • THOMAS DICKEY was a clockmaker in Marietta, and later in Harris- burg. He is listed among the taxables in 1812-1814 (see Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 625). One of his clocks ran far afield; it was taken by wagon from Marietta to the Niagara frontier, New York State, in 1828, by

Strasburg. His grandfather was born in Switzerland in 1746, and came to the United States when a young man. His wife, whom he married in 1771, was Mary Rohrer, and they had nine children, and thus was founded the large and influential family of Bachmans located in and about Strasburg. CHRISTIAN EBY was an

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the

Isaac L. Williams, Artist and Portrait Painter, As the subject *of my sketch is not found mentioned in any of the ency- clopedias or journals at present ex- tant, it was necessary to collect the data here gathered from relatives and personal friends of him and from the works he left as testimonials