observed on Jan. 28, 1965, in the evening with the Presbytery of Donegal and the Synod of Pennsylvania bringing greetings. The Good Lord blessed him in many ways. On Sept. 6, 1965, God decided to take him to his home in Glory, and it was time for another to take his mantle. Rev. Richard Dunham of Chestnut

John Dickey of Beaver County who was a member of the 28th and 30th Congresses; and he became acquainted with Lincoln when the latter was also a member from Illinois of the 30th Congress. 0. J. Dickey came to Lancaster in 1846, was admitted to the bar and soon became a law partner of Thaddeus Stevens

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

AutoNumber Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Vol # Cemetery # Page # 67444 Erisman Catharina 1809 wife of Michael Erisman Abbeville Cemetery Lancaster Township 24 506 1 67442 Erisman Daniel Sr. 1793 August 11, 1858

a brief account of the 75th anniversary of one of the world's most decisive battles, the dedication of a cemetery on that field, and reference to the few remaining who participated therein, nor for any information or reference to Lincoln whenever his shadow may have fallen across old Lancaster. The

- coln, of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster, yeoman, so desig- nated in a quit claim deed, dated 1769, resided in colonial Lan- caster county. This Thomas Lincoln was a brother of the President's great-grandfather, John Lincoln, and had been a rep- resentative from Berks county in the General Assembly

selected letters would never have materialized had it not been for the kindness of George Swan of Lititz, Pennsylvania, who brought Beck's Letter Book to the author's attention and granted permis- sion to publish a portion of it. Part I. A Portrait of a Schoolmaster On June 25, 1895, Abraham Reincke Beck

the scheme. "JOSEPH SIMON." On November 4, 1786, petitions were presented to the General Assembly from "a number of the inhabitants of the borough of Lancaster, and others residing on the east side of that part of the said Conestogoe Creek, where the great road leading from the bor- �rough to the city

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