The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church by Hiram G. Troop, Sr. Mr. Madison E. McElwain's Faith and Works at Middle Octorara Since 1727 was published in 1956, and there is a copy in the LCHS col- lection. "The 250th Anniversary of Middle Octorara United Presbyter- ian

the United States Government with the head of George Washington or a picture of some event in connection with him than any other person in the world, except possibly King George of England, whose head is not only on stamps of Great Britain but all of its col- onies. And too, each state in the Union

. John B. Reist,* Lititz, R. D. 2. Scarcely had the crowd fixed their eyes on the next speaker— the President of the United States—after taking a sigh of relief at the close of Everett's lengthy and rather tiresome discourse, when hearing the words— "government of the people, by the people, for the

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

Harford in Susque- hanna County could produce, within the confines of a group of contem- porary classmates, three or four United States representatives, a like num- ber of United States district judges, a speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a United States Senator and a governor of Iowa was not as