families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, some others in Macon county, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781-2, where, a year

what Lancaster was like in photographs from 1905 to 1941. Douglas Darmstaetter donated a collection of commercial photographic negatives and ledgers to the Historical Society after his family's business closed in 1977. The Collection contains more than 4,000 images that promoted business and the