Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. (Book) 1900. Roehl, Katherine M. The Book of Geib. (Typescript) 1967. Rosenberger, Homer Tope Adventures and Philosophy of a Pa. Dutchman: an autobiography. (Book) 1981. Rudy, Arthur F. History of the Rudy Family of Lancaster County, Pa. (Typescript) 1981. Sater, Joel

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

spoke not only to the audience at the National Cemetery, November 19, 1863, where according to an account of Emanuel Hertz, which appeared in the "New York Times" magazine, November 20, 1938, people from a fifty-mile radius, including Lydia of Ephrata, gathered, but imposed a duty upon the present and

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

Transactions. 6. For a detailed account of the Lititz Academy and an evaluation of John Beck. as a teacher see Simon P. Eby, "John Beck : The Eminent Teacher." Lancaster County Historical Society Papers, II, 1898, 111-139. 7. A. R. Beck, "The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Pa., 1744-1905," loc. cit., 295-296

the bridge and to receive tolls under the same regu- lations and restrictions as Abraham Witmer was authorized to do. And by section 6, it became the duty of the County Commissioners to lay before the Court of Quarter Ses- sions an account annually of the ex- penses incurred in maintaining and

exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the

founded, this leading transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. Once more, let me heartily commend the Lancaster and York County Branches of the Colonial Dames of America for what they have done here to-day. 1 For an account of Cresap's War, the reader is referred to Vol. XIII,. pp. 237-254, of the