anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, nothing could be more fitting nor of more local interest than a review of his connections with Lancaster and its citizens. Prefacing this, I wish to present evidence that Abra- ham Lincoln's ancestral family was represented in colonial Lan- caster county. John

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

Andrew Snyder A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WHO REACHED THE AGE OF 112 YEARS By OLIVER SNYDER SPROUT Andrew Snyder was born in Switzerland in the year 1733. Family tradi- tion states that he arrived on these shores during the year 1766. I. Daniel Rupp in his "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants," p. 368