AN ASTOR IN LANCASTER COUNTY, Many years since a German family, consisting of a man by the name of Fessler, his wife, and two children, named Jacob and Susan, drifted into Bainbridge, where they located, but no one knew from whence they came. They located in a small stone house, which was standing

life, have added lustre to the family escutcheon; and his later descendant, John Houston Merrill, adorns the profession of his forbears. The Linn family, of much eminence in Central Pennsylvania, had repre- sentatives named John B. Linn and James Merrill Linn. I may add that as the elder of the